Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of di
Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of different challenges. Lets start with the topic of access. W does how would you define the problems with it. . I think there are a lot of good signs we ca
James deluc. I want to start with a question and i and inspired by a couple presentations. What it has to do with for the purposes of working on kyushus like protective equipment, disinfection, waste disposal, has any thought been given to what is an appropriate surrogate for beat ebola virus in terms of the behavior of survival under various conditions yet does not require being in a Laboratory Facilities in order to run an experiment. To people have any ideas . Dr. Peters . There is the species of ebola which is not pathogenic for humans and can be downgraded from 4. In addition to that, colleagues have produced an ebola virus by genetic engineering to ward off interference which ebola has and that is probably not pathogenic, institution or review board giving permission to use it. Any ideas about that . There are various viruses, and the question, you do those experiments and say is does that react the same way as the real virus but that would be another idea. From the point of view
There are few marred huge margins for white voters. Hard to win statewide, even in a state with a strong minority population. The democratic chair of the white vote was down share of the white vote was down since 2008. That is a problem for the problem. For the party. There are still a lot of white voters here. Back to your point about the specific candidate you cant take anything for granted. We want to talk about statelevel Ballot Initiatives as well as some a local elections, and measures at local levels, but i want to make sure we have time for a couple of questions right now. As far as the gubernatorial elections or the state elections, yes . As far as the demographics, the republicans were mores bread out the republicans were more spread out, what is the distribution . How did the distribution affect this years races . One reason is we thought that this year was not going to be a wave of election is because republicans would have the rural vote and places like kansas. We talk abo