Discussion about Academic Freedom and diversity on College Campuses panelists include a documentary filmmaker plus authors and filmmakers from Yale University and the universities of michigan in chicago. University of Chicago School of social Service Administration hosted the discussion. It is about 90 minutes. Okay, good evening everyone. I am the dean of the school of social Service Administration here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings event. American universities have long been unique institutions that have unique and controversials ideas that bring to bear deeper analyses in evidence. Such ideas can fuel advances or even breakthroughs on many questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in education which makes as possible is the cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom. The pursuit of ideas, concepts, concepts, evidence and knowledge and the passing on of such in the education of our students.
Testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals that we issued subpoenas to where danny pomo personal deputy undersecretary for benefits, diana rubin is director of the philadelphia Regional Office, ms. Kimberly grace director of the st. Paul Regional Office, mr. Robert mckendrick director of the Los Angeles Regional Office, mr. Antoine waller director of the baltimore Regional Office. We learned at our last hearing the ig report lays out the alleged abuse of vas relocation permanent change of station programs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and now ms. Rubin sent ms. Gray said apparently in a properly use their positions of authority to put their own personal and financial benefits ahead of veterans, taxpayers and their subordinates. As the saying goes a pictures worth a thousand words a lets start with a map and describe in the simplest terms what tonights hearing is all about. You can look at the screen appear. Initially ms. Graves and
Over that 50 billion threshold and would save us some supervisory resources, this isnt a musthave. On living wills, the very largest banks in the country are even larger today than they were during the financial crisis, the living wills provision of dodd frank was to make sure the banks never threaten the economy again by giving regulators addition additional and only the fdic took the official position that the wills were not credible. The feds decision not to join the fdic has slowed both regulators ability to take additional action. Why would the fed voluntary give up additional authorities to force changes at problem banks . So, we took the position that this was a completely new process, and we stated this when we put out guidance on the living will process that we expected to have to work with firms for a few rounds in order to understand what we needed to see in a plan and to give firms reasonable guidance on our expectations. Last summer that is why we declined to join the fdic
Problem after problem after problem and nothing we seemed to do seemed to be able to fix it. Moving antoine there was the right call. Hes dramatically improved production in almost every aspect of baltimore since hes been there. Its kind of like if you want to replace an infantry commander at ft. Riley, kansas, you dont go out and look at a bunch of applicants, you say who is my best infantry colonel or general promotable that i can put in that position. Antoine was the person in that case. If you could go back in time would you still have signed off all the moves highlighted in the Inspector Generals report . If i could go back in time i still would have made all the moves, yes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Pummill, is there any reason why you could not inform this committee of what the proposed actions are . Im sorry, congressman . Is there any reason you cant inform this committee as to what the proposed actions are . I was told by our Legal Advisers right before this
Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she passed the test but she was still ready, she was not ready for the Community College work she encountered that fall. When we focus efforts only helping struggling students jump over a hurd definitely mandated exams the learning an opportunity gap widens. My Current School harvest collegiate is a member of new york performing standard consortium of a group of 48 schools that offer more alternative model. We use more rigorous Testing Systems than state exams. Highstakes assessments are not on demand