Good afternoon. There are lots of seats in the front and im told one of the seats as tickets underneath it so you need to sit in the front to get the tickets. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] for those that are faculty, give everybody a couple more minutes to just grab a seat. Im the executive dean for administration and finance at the school of engineering and Applied Sciences. In my six years on the institutes of Higher Education is my pleasure to welcome you to this afternoons session and its my honor to introduce the presenter and speaker. Already i started off bad. Associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor ofca education. After receiving his bachelor of arts, he spent the first ten years of his career as a High School Social studies teacher in maryland, california and casablanca morocco. His phd from the university of california berkeley in 2012 and 2013 he received a u. S. State Department Fulbright award to the university of cape town south africa and shes published
Certainly worth 25,000. So how that will work in the future is a little unclear to me. Probably the best sort of reporting that ive seen on that recently is that its actually going to begin to control itself because our enrollment simply because the demographic population United States and the number of students who will be applying to college in the future because of the demographic sort of shift in the American Population, the numbers to the point of college is actually going to shrink and we will have a supply and demand problem in the cost of college is going to come down relative to the past and that may actually fix itself. I dont know if that is a full answer to the question but thats at least my sense what has happened. My name is david filson at northeastern. I guess i have a question somewhat similar. The truth about your thoughts as we see this modification to Higher Education commission from the common good to the private good and how its funded in all of that, whether we t
[inaudible] [inaudible] book tv is on instagram. Follow us for publishing news, schedule, schedule updates and behind the scenes pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. Im delighted to have three of them most distinguished historians with us tonight. We are celebrating the publication of Linda Gilmore and thomas these United States, a nation in the making 1890 until the present. Cruises professor of history at Princeton University and the historian who writes about what turns out to be the long 20th century that his college discussed in the new book. We cannot have hoped for a better editor vocative and we are going to turn things over to kevin. I would like everyone to welcome our guest tonight [applause]. Thank you for coming out tonight. We are honored to be here to celebrate and help introduce this book by two of the nations leading historians. What is the long 20 century as they described it. Going to ask a few questions, will get them to read a few short passages
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When did you write this question mark this . I wrote that 13 years ago. When i started, i had this feeling about wilson that he is still with us and that is why i wanted to write the book. Ive always been fascinated with wilson. I thought that of all the president and unites get and century, he lingers. White question mark i think there are several reasons, one is some of the programs that wilson initiated that are with us to this day. I think the foundation to the economy and the Federal Reserve system goes back to wilson. Certainly, our Foreign Policy is rooted in a speech that woodrow 1917. Gave in he said that he wanted to wanted to make the world safe for democracy. All of our Foreign Policy decisions since then, for good or ill, are rooted in that. That is something. The other reasons i wanted to write about wilson were thats. Here were ideals and ideas he was so highminded and i do not think that we have had a president who is as highminded as wilson. I think that is a good thin