Good evening, everyone. And welcome im bill kelly, the andrew w. Melon director of the Research Library and mitt pleasure to welcome you here. We are fortunate to have professor Cathy Davidson with us this evening. The author after its important boehm, the new education, how to revolutionize the the university to prepare for a world in flux. She is a director of kuynys never program shep head a chair and professorship and was the Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books. The cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation, the developer, as you probe foreclosure of the fire fax web browser and underwriter of a Global Community of open Source Developers she was appoint by president obama to the National Council on the humanities, and was the 2016 rerecipient of the award for significant contributions to Higher Education. All of that you probably
Isnt that just racism . On what basis, what argument can the process be made where its okay for certain people to be overrepresented and not others. Its a complicated question and im glad that i am not on the committee at harvard. [laughter] im Maria Costigan i work for the council on foreign relations. I was wondering if either of you had noticed a difference in awareness to what the other country is doing education wise in the United States. If you look at where they are insecure, its education. If you look at the president of china, he doesnt seem insecure about anything but their sending teachers over to the uk, to the netherlands, to australia to learn and they are not surprisingly, they are not looking at how were teaching, theyre looking at how we get students interested in learning. Theyre bringingsome of that back. So what i do worry about is its not coming the other way. Theres not a lot of resistance to americans, education, learning from other circles. Theyre talking about
[background noises] hello. Welcome to housing works bookstore cafe. Im melissa ragsdale, and before we get started can i have a round of applause for anyone who was never ever been to this bookstore before [applause] thats great. That gives us the opportunity to tell us about the work we do here at housing. It works as a Healing Community of living with and affected by hiv and aids. Our mission is to end the dual crisis of hopelessness and eight through advocacy, provision of lifesaving services and entrepreneurial businesses to sustain our efforts. What that means is that everything you see here in the picture, all the books, music, movies have been donated to us and the proceeds go to housing, healthcare, advocacy, job training and other lifesaving services that is needed. That means every time you buy a book or appear here you are doing a good deed and i would encourage you to do as many of those goodies as possible. You will see there is a bar here to my left and a cafe on my right
You can watch this and other programs online apple tv. Org. Buch tv. Org. Good evening. Good evening. My name is paul horton life from the New York Public Library and im delighted to welcome all of you tonight. Last week we have the great pleasure of welcoming a guest to this cover the case the guests. It will include late in the season in december as conversation. It was so regretful that he cannot state his unit he thought he believed that it was changing the world. Im thrilled to welcome the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the author of the world of three zeros. The new economic zero poverty. A book that he will sign after his conversation. Im thrilled to welcome him back to the stage. Its the third time last time he spoke was in 2009. In a conversation moderated by charlie rose. It is always a pleasure to welcome him back. I dont know why i pause there. But somehow i just could not believe that that happened. But it did. And here we are. Indeed here we are. Tonight i would like t
Standards which has drawn people to her to temper her enthusiasm for change. She has transcended it all and i appreciate the chance to talk to you. Thank you for having me. [applause] please join us for the book signing outside of the auditorium. Thank you for coming tonight. [inaudible] book tv has covered many books about education including ones by david osborne. Education activists and jonathan coastal, a former assistant secretary of education under george w. Bush. If this interests you go to our website on booktv. Org. In the search bar type and education book. Youll find an archive of materials. They are all available to watch online. Cspan, or history unfolds stately. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. Its brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on book tvs afterwards, pop schieffer, former host of face the nation examines the impact of changing technology on journalism. Hes in conversation with Susan Glasse