Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t
Silence your telephones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. So any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. We have jerry weller, foformer u. S. Representative from illinoiss district and the state society in washington. We have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d. C. We have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. Truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student whos planning to study neuroscience. We have armando rodriguez. We have Lisa Matthews coleader of the npc Headliners T
Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
Constitution. And the resolution of that battle is vital to the future of our country. Thats Arizona Supreme Court justice, clint bolick at conservative forum silicon valley. Can you see the entire speech tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Chicago mayor rahm emanual on his initiatives for education and college preparedness. One of them would require Chicago Public High School Seniors to have a postgraduation plan in place before receiving a diploma. So long before todays guest became a politician, he attended Sarah Lawrence college. At college, before politics, and long before he was president Barack Obamas chief of staff. Chicago mayor rahm emanual taught preschool. Mayor emanuels love of education followed him throughout his political career, into his tenure as chicagos mayor, wherever he oversees the Third Largest School System in the United States. He is credited with adding more than 200 Additional School hours in the year. Hes taken chicago School System to being on par with
Years, in and originally started with nine students at the basement of the sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8,000 students. A history and leg gacy tied to historically black colleges and universities. They will celebrate their 150th anniversary and these university are Morgan State University in baltimore, maryland, Howard University in d. C. Johnson c. Smith in North Carolina, Barbara Scotia in North Carolina, talledega in alabama, st. Augustine in North Carolina, alabama State University in alabama, fayet fayetteville State University in North Carolina and moore House College in georgia. In 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black colleges and universities established in any single year. In 1965, the Higher Education act of 1965 formally recognized 105 historically black colleges and universities, and so these 105hbcus are an important legacy to the education of