Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about the university of Maryland University college, which is a public Online University, that is designed here we go. Designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and careerrelevant 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 those who were returning g is from world war ii. In 1949, we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our trips stationed in germany. And this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956, we had established divisions to deliver Higher Education in both 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 accredited
Future work force. So were going to go into our third group of presenters under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely polietto followed by michael rourke, followed by will zimpf. If we can have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk about university of Maryland University college, which is the public Online University that is designed here we go designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. 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 those who were returning gis from world war ii. 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
Gives hirs state of the Union Address to congress and the nation. Join cspan for a preview of the evening starting at 8 eastern. And then the state of the union speech live at 9 00 p. M. And following the speech, the democratic response, also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. President trumps state of the Union Address tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the radio app and on demand on your desk phone or tablet at cspan. Org. Education senator betsy devos took part in the rethink School Summit here in washington. Over the next hour 15 minutes, stakeholders from across the country discuss ideas for educating and training americas future workforce. So we are going to go into our third group of presenters. Under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely pal el owe followed by Michael Roark and wrap up by jeff. If we could have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk ab
For ourondary education precious kids and the future of this nation. We know that the font of all wisdom is a repository in the governors offices. We know we have the greatest collection of educational leaders and history of the country. I thirst bipartisan consensus about that this morning. I am looking for to this discussion. I will kick it off with some comments. A few things really go to discussing today, how we will find a hard education, how we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities. How do we use data to these strategies to prioritize our investment. We are looking for preliminary comment on governors doing some really progressive work trying to make Higher Education more affordable and accessible to our families. Debt burdencrushing our families have and we recognize we have talent on a bipartisan basis. Is anor jerry brown champion of the new system in that regard. Kentucky isin and overseeing a hundred nine dollars bond issue to scale up Workforce Development which is
Its an hour. Good morning. We have a really great discussion ahead of us this morning of pathways to prosperity examining our possibilities of innovation, and post secondary education and career connected learning for our precious kids in the future of this nation. We know that the font of all wisdom is a repository in the governors offices. We know that we have the greatest collection of education leaders in the history of the country on a bipartisan basis. I think theres a bipartisan consensus about that this morning. Im looking forward to this discussion. Im going to kick it off with comments. A few things well look forward to discussing today. How do we help families finance Higher Education . How do we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities . How do we expand opportunities for a career connected learning . How do we use data to really use strategies to prioritize our investment . Im looking forward to everyones comments. Just preliminary comment about i know governors have