Innovation planning a two Day Conference like this one Record Number of colleagues across the region and for the First Time Ever we had over 1200 registrations and those looking at the keynote address or vs cspan we are absolutely thrilled wherever you may be a Technical Team to get us here team of colleagues and 17 campuses and the metropolitan region volunteering their time and energy we nearly asked him to stand and be recognized by know thats not possible we nearly asked him to stand and be recognized by know thats not possible in various capacities please take a moment to thank them for their work. Also to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort with the assistant director Jennifer Mchenry and director of instructional design work at these amazing women i am over time with i and i get to work with them we would like to personally thank the university of st. Louis leadership the high value on teaching and learning without support we cannot do what we like to do and then to i
Much goes into the planning of the conference, and its gratifying to see a Record Number of colleagues from across the region taking advantage of our good work. For the first time ever, we hit over 1200 registrations. Welcome to our returning attendees, new attendees, and remote viewers who may be tune in through zoom or via cspan who has asked to broadcast the recording for todays keynote. We are absolutely thrilled to reach so many colleagues, wherever you might be. It took a whole team to get us here, team of colleagues representing more than 17 campuses in the broad expanse or our metropolitan region. They and others are volunteering time and energy to ensure all runs smoothly. We would nominally ask them to stand and be rick need built that not possible this year, unless you want to do so from home, please too. So as you see them convening sessions or helping, thank them for their work. Idles like to take a moment to wreck fine tee enormous effort taken by their center for teachin
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Member, John Sarbanes, as well as delegates. This is an hour. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. Not that they werent given, because they fought very hard for it, but that success was achieved. It took another year to pass the rest of the process, the ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. And we are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Among them are carolyn maloney, who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of the