wing writers room. he founded it as a speech writing business along with the strategic operation. and this comes from his experience as a speech writer for president clinton. he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. he also has a background in history from brown university. he was a rhodes scholar. he has a masters degree in history from oxford. his previous books were on fascinating topics, in and of themselves. one on franklin roosevelt and his tussle with the u.s. supreme court. the other is, speaking of tussle s, on the conflict between robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. we were just talking, before we went on camera. jeff is so good at developing dramatic tension. i would say, about this book which i thoroughly enjoyed, i may have mentioned it to meet him, i certainly did with others, when i m getting ready to moderate a book discussion i saw myself so many pages of the book to read a day. i make sure i m finished with it by the time the discussion be
earth the board friendship 7 welcome to the miller center forum. i m barbara perry and i m the director of presidential studies at the miller center where i welcome to the miller center forum. i am barbara perry. i m the director of presidential studies at the miller center. i also co-chair with russell riley. the presidential oral history program. it is great to have you with us today. to join us for, what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest, jeff shuttle. it is about his book called mercury rising. it is the story of john glenn, john kennedy, and the space race in the case of the cold war. he comes to us from the west wing writers room. he founded it as a speech writing business along with the strategic operation. and this comes from his experience as a speech writer for president clinton. he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. he also has a background in history from brown university. he was a rhodes scholar. he has a masters degr
Benefited their students, online courses and their benefits to nontraditional students such as members of the military. Thank you for attending the summit on innovation in education and thanks to all of you who will present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and ek per tease in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. Before we begin, i want to say a quick word about innovation, about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on our rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institutions that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel country to see the great work thats being done and ive been inspired by the educators and administrators ive met thus far, but theres still not enough. We need more like them and like you. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. , does not have all the answers.
Blakley, and michael and wrap up by jeff. We can have blakley. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about university of marylanded and University College which is a public Online University designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible skbalt career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of maryland as a department that was charged with serving adult students particularly returning gis from world war ii t. In 1949 we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our troops stationed in germany and this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956 we had establishes divisioneds to deliver Higher Education in europe and asia and in 1963 we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970 we became an independent fully acredited
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