[inaudible conversations] okay. Hello, everyone. Were going to get started. I hope you can hear me okay. Hello. Good evening, everyone. When you have an event on one of the most miserable days of the year, you get very nervous. But its great to see so many people here tonight on what is a truly awful new york city evening. We didnt really worry too much about it. Can you hear me okay now . A little better . Mic check. Okay. We didnt worry too much about it because we have a great draw today. For those of you who dont know me, my name is eric kleinen berg, professor of sociology here at nyu and also the director of the institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annexed space of the institute for public knowledge. Were hosting this evenings event, and we do a lot of events like this. Were the part of nyu that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time merchandise the ivory tower and project them out into the world. So we really aim to gener
Where is he. Hes coming up. Look at us today. Were all in pink. Not planned. Coincidental. I think hell be breathless when he gets back. Hell be running up the stairs in the coming moments. So its thursday, july 17, 2014. Lets get started. If youre in the market for a new car, toyota has a new minivan and it has a new interesting feature. Well tell you how the car company is talking to their kids in the backseat without yelling. Should your boss have a say in when you take a bathroom break and for how long . Thats whats happening in one chicago office. Workers pretty upset. Well talk about it. I know women like to talk, but there are some situations when men have to more to say. When the sevens are most talkative. When is that . Coming up. Thanks for coming in. Its nice to be back. Theres that annual contest is happening again, if you have a really cute kid you take a picture of them and you can win a contest. Those people are coming in again. Well tell you where to have the pictures t
Eric talked about students switching majors and taking a long time as the cause of increasing student that when we visited and eight as pt of our heres a bit of what he had to say. But if you dig a little bit deeper, you see that there are really two problems that i think have an enormous impact. One of those is that we have too many students going into years five and six. And going years five and six borrowing money to do it. So they are not completing as fast as they can. A large number of them are students that are not as well off financially and what they end up doing is creating a cycle of working too many hours taking fewer classes perhaps not doing quite as well as their talent would allow because they are working. And then they go forward and take more time to graduate. Some of them give up. This is the group of people for which i believe we have too many people that dont complete. And then in years five and six they are borrowing more money because that is what it takes to get
There are some differences and some similarities. My overall goals for my short presentation is im going to define teen dating violence and the prevalence and talk a little bit what we have learned through our Grant Programs over the years and to tell you about funding opportunities, once again funding, was mentioned earlier. Teen dating violence is defined as physical, sexual and sikecoling call emotional violence within an intimate partner relationship. It is a pattern of abuse, behaviors used tore, i want to say exert power and control over a dating partner. It may occur between a current or former dating partner. There are a number of types of abuse. Theres the physical abuse. Theres emotional abuse, things like name calling, yelling, bullying, embarrassing, keeping you away from your friends. Sexual abuse is similar to forcing you to do something sexual, especially speaking from the youth perspective, kissing and touching and things of that nature. We also have stalking, which ref
Regardless of what is voted upon or not voted upon there should be additional conversation with Board Members in a little bit more detail as we make amendments whether voted on positive or not we are going to need positive direction from the board ill make a cautionary note there what was extensive notes taken from the asterisks of board the other evening this is a thoughtfully krauftd proposal for your consideration that enexcuses the feedback that will not be perfect opportunity to make amendments and we will be here until tomorrow morning we we make additions and subtractions i want to call to the commissions attendance we have professional educatorors macro those recommendations well not make a recommendation well not purport i wanted to speak to that in support of our staff working with the community as well and just remind us all that is the first year were in growing modes weve been supplementing and trying to keep lights on for years this is a thoughtful way of moving forward w