I want to say hello to those who are watching this through the lifestream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education and particularly the role of historically black universities and colleges. In 1997 i worked with an educational project. A number of you know the dr. Is that public hbc you. Some of you know his private hbc. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps. Number of you know him through his work as a pastor. In 1997 we had an opportunity to sit in the lovely room. With a donor who owns a very large and very Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room. And she said, can ask a questi question . Is there a need for blackblack colleges today and doctor proctor leaned back in his seat and he said maam, if you make can i restructure the question. The question is not, whether there is a need for hbcus today, the question is, where would america be today without them. And so she nod
Here before, welcome back. I would like to say hello to those who are watching this through live stream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education, particularly the role of historically lack colleges and universities. In 1997 i have the opportunity to work on a project with a gentleman named Samuel Dewitt proctor. Many of you know him as a former president , some of you know him from virginia university. He actually spent time here in washington d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps, but a number of you know him through his work as the pastor at the baptist church. In 1997 we had opportunity to sit in a very lovely room with a donor who owns a very large and Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room and we exchanged niceties and she said can i ask one question and he said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . He leaned back in his seat, having heard this question for most of his life and he said
Or cspan 2. This is a great day to have a conversation about Higher Education and typically the role of black universities and colleges in it. In 1997 i had an opportunity to work on educational project with dr. Samuel dewitt proctor. Many of you know him as president of north carolina. Some of you know him as president of university. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him as pastor of an stenian church. We had an opportunity to sit in a lovely room similar to this with a donor its a donor who owns a large and Famous Family sfwrags. The head of that walked into the rooms. We exchanged niceties. She said can i ask you one question . He said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . And dr. Proctor leaned back in his chair, having heard this question for his life. The question not whether there is a need for h fwrvegs cus today. The question is where would america be today without the hbcus. She nodded. He returned
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[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] again a brief break in the summit of bullying with the Education Department. While we wait for them to resume we will show you our Upcoming Program for this weekend on cspan2. Put tv on cspan two, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Here are here are some featured programs for this coming weekend on saturday at seven pm eastern, the Supreme Court of chief Justice Warren burger is the focus of the yellow Law School Lecturer the burger court and the rise of the judicial right. She speaks of politics and prose bookstore here in washington d. C. Then at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, after words with syndicated radio host dana lash. She argues that the u. S. Is splintering into two countries which she calls coastal america and flyover america in her book flyover nation. You cant run at country youve never been to print she is interviewed by guy benson, News Reporter and editor. It seems that in so many ways not just really so much