Justice elena kagan talked about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and her judicial philosophy this took place at northwestern universities law school in chicago. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible] so good afternoon, and you one. It is a great honor to welcome you to the visiting scholar lecture with your Supreme Court Justice Elena kagan. I would like to give a warm welcome to some special guests whoco are here with us today. We are very honored to be joined by members of Justice Kagans family. We are also honor to be joined by the daughter of howard trina and, and mary, as well as members of our Judicial Branch and a number of university leaders. I would also like to take a moment to thank our Law School Team for their wonderful work in bringing together todays event. Since 1989 that visiting Scholar Program has invited a leading jurist to Northwestern Pritzker School of law to lecture and offer alumni, students and faculty with a perspective
[applause] [indiscernible] good afternoon everyone. It is a great honor to welcome you to the howard visiting scholar lecture with u. S. Supreme Court Justice kagan and give a warm welcome to special guests. We are honored to be joined by members of Justice Kagans family. We are honored to be joined the daughter of howard treen. D. M. Anand as well as members of our Judicial Branch and number of university leaders. I would like to take a moment to thank our Law School Team in bringing together todays event. Since 1989, the Scholar Program has invited a leading jurist to lecture and offer alumni, students and faculty with a perspective on the judicial process and the program was accomplished by howard treen and in recognition to the firm and to northwestern. He joined as an associate and became a partner in 1956 and headed the executive committee from 1977 to 1993. He had a very longstanding relationship with Northwestern University and received his bachelors agree here in 1945 and jury
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I had the opportunity to here that of the 32 billion of being spent on this, nearly 1 billion of that will be going to an individual that should not receive it. What you have instituted at the Community College to discourage and present waste fraud and abuse, could you expand upon that and could we reauthorize the student education act . Yes, one of the was and it permitted daily attendance process and we tide that process so that if a student is but a circle time right now, before that money will the process goes over to check to see that student has in fact started attending the class that the aid is going to be paying for. If they have not had an attendance record, the Financial Aid does not go through so we have closed the loophole between students eligible for class. And the students are fully aware of that . Yes, they are. And every semester him as you might imagine, we do have a faculty that does not record attendance and a student comes in wanting to know where their money is.
Also require students have taken azt in s. A. T. And have met scores. Such a policy would focus on the student most likely to succeed and give them an incentive to better prepare for college. She further encourage students to graduate, it should be linked to enrollment intensity. Students receive the maximum should expect to take 15 credit hours, not 12. This could be coupled with the well concept that it faces the words on a 12 month schedule rather than the academic year. Facesrrent program serious challenges that we can meet them with better data, financial planning, and soon accountability. Thank you. I think the first two witnesses for being so good about being on time. , i recognize you for five minutes. Thank you. I have three basic messages. The first is trend lightly. Balancedd is pursue a to any longterm funding gap in the third is to attempt the institutional aid in terms of college affordability. I am a maximum pell grant recipients. One of many Success Stories out there. T