Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of di
Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of different challenges. Lets start with the topic of access. W does how would you define the problems with it. . I think there are a lot of good signs we ca
Right way. Host richard talks about medical marijuana. You may have other issues. Keep calling with those as we take a few minutes to talk about secret service. It was at the white house where the White House Press spokesperson josh earnest talked about the issue of the resignation and also talked about when the white house learned about that Armed Security guard, the Armed Security contractor who rode in an elevator with president obama. I can tell you that the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was reported by before it was reported by the news organization. She did not tell him about that . The agency did not tell the white house about that . He didnt know about it yesterday . Until shortly before it was reported publicly. And thats a problem, right . Well, i would i think the it would be accurate for you to assume that when incidents like that occur, that there would be a pretty open channel of communication between the United States se
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