And like us on facebook, to get debate schedules, video clips on key moments, debate previews from our politics team. Cspan has brought you over 100 house and governor ship debates. You can instantly share what the candidates are saying, stay involved and engage by following us on twitter and facebook. Up next a conversation with University Illinois urbanachampagne provost, he spoke about some of the challenging facing Higher Education including student debt and campus safety. This is part of a recent series on cspans washington journal. Last were here on the american journal, we kicked off a month long series with University President s as part of cspan busses big ten tour. Aboard the bus today is the provost. Let me begin with what you see as the top changeses for Higher Education. Well, good morning. Its nice welcome to everybody to our campus. To talk challenges for Higher Education for where we sit in the middle of the prairie in the United States is the issue of access and affo a
Themselves in the world. Access and affordability. Because the cost of Higher Education has gone up over the last many years and now we have to figure out as a country, and as individual institutions how to make this affordable and accessible to young people, because education is transformational. Transformative experiences make a whole individual. Thats for citizens of every country, especially in a democratic environment. So how are you doing that then . How are you addressing this challenge of affordability and access . The university of illinois at urbana, champagne, tuition for instate is over 15,000, out of state is over 30,000, and room and board can come in at nearly 11,000. Yes, indeed. We are over the last many years, we are increased our effort in terms of Financial Aid. We have given over 70 million in Financial Aid. We have been going out to our friends and alumni trying to college bonds. Because the top reason, probably four or five regions, that students accept our invit
Carrot additionally. One of the things that we dont have enough of are programs or grants that encourage and inspire innovation and new practices and new knowledge about this issue when were placing all of our resources in enforcement and were not complementing that with innovation, then i think were creating a situation where we do have box checking instead of new thinking. I understand what youre saying. I guess what youre saying. One thing thats disappointing to me about this is that we depend on College Campuses for innovation for so many things in our society. You have on a College Campus i dont want to pick on michigan, although i kind of would like to pick on michigan. If you were at kansas, id really like to pick on you. Your system. You have law school. You have a medical school. You are training psychologists and psychiatrists. And social workers. You have every discipline and Academic Excellence in every discipline that is needed to come together on this problem. And you hav
The victim is the wife here, supposedly. And by taking away his livelihood, half of that money is her money. Any previous dating experience where there was violence, if this is a onetime ,hing or something went wrong maybe counseling or intervention or find out what happened. Not that it excuses anything what so we have a full understanding. That was eric and california. We keep getting your thoughts. We have 15 minutes left to do so. News, on capitol hill, congress is readying a continual resolution to keep the government funded past september 30 when the fiscal year ends in the new fiscal year ends. It continues through current spending levels and addresses the Ebola Outbreak and extends import bank due june 30, 2015. Theres a lot of debate about that. The house is expected to debate the resolution on thursday. News, Sean Sullivan has the peace. Representative lost to the iraq ulton. Teran seth mo becoming just the fourth sitting member of congress to fall in a primary this year. The
Handled this pandemic. Something that joe biden now the democratic president ial nominee officially will try to capitalize on tonight as democrats kick off evening three of their convention. It is set to have a whole lot of big names making the addresses. Former president obama and Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, the headliners this evening. Well get to that in a minute. Lets begin though on the coronavirus and begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Lets begin with the new cnn polling showing a drop in the americans willing to get a vaccine and this is something were worried about. For sure. I think the assumption on the part of government leaders was well come one a vaccine, well do it at warp speed and people will take it, maybe not so much. Lets look at this poll. This is a poll that cnn did, polling people from august 12th through 15th, asking the question, would you try to get a Coronavirus Vaccine if it existed . 56 said yes. But 40 said no. It is going t