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
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And welcome, and bill kelly, andrew w mellon, director of the research library. And its my pleasure to you to the library. We are fortunate indeed to have professor Kathy Davidson with us this evening. He is the author of a critically important, the new education, how to revolution as the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Kathys distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of new york, director of cunys initiatives program. Prior to joining the faculty she had held a chair professorship and was Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. She is the author or editor of more than20 books , cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation. Developer as you probably know of the fox web browser and underwriter of the Global Community open source developers, she was appointed by president obama to the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipie
Proposed requirement beforehanding graduates in chicago their high school diplomas. Introductions under way. Welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction that 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 stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jer
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