Leaving cuba. My dad, he owned the lumber mill which he worked hard at. That is where i learned my work ethic from. Get up at 5 00 in the morning and work until 5 00 in the evening. But it was a good, comfortable life. Then all of a sudden, things changed. It was kind of topsyturvy. All of a sudden you thought was yours is no longer yours. It has been deemed to be taken over and shared with others, and that happens in all industries, all private property disappears. Then as i was even the schools, the schools that i was going to, they got shut down because they were changing the curriculum from the curriculum that we had to one that was more communistoriented. For a two year. A two year period, i did not have much to do except intentionally get in trouble. Potentially get in trouble. That is when my parents decided i needed to get out of cuba. Walter what age . Mike the process started when i was 15. It took about a year to get everything going. I brother and sister were much older tha
Notice that three of them are from ucla. I would like to remind those of you at nyu that these three people used to be at nyu, and i think their presence here today is a symbol of the fact that once you are at nyu, you never really leave. It is just like a magnet coming back. We would like to congratulate them on their new roles and especially on this study. I should also say to remind you at nyu, we are now the Global Network university. So in a sense, think of ucla sort of like nyu west. As we congratulate you, we are also proud of your competence. The way we are going to proceed this morning is, im going to introduce all of our speakers and they will follow each other without further introduction. Our first speaker will be are still as torres arose go. The other comment i want to to make, because we have very distinguished speakers, for those of you not in academia is important for you to know that when someone is a high level besser professor, they have this other name they start t
Ucla released a report earlier this year about challenges facing undocumented undergraduates get into the u. S. It is a survey of 900 undocumented undergraduates in 32 states who migrated from 55 countries. The coauthors joined a panel for a discussion about undocumented College Students in the u. S. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome you and for those of you who live in new york, you know this is a rare example of sunshine in the morning. And its not even freezing. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education policy. I was thinking about our session this morning and how when i started the institute about 12 years ago. I kept looking up a word policy in the dictionary and if you ever do that, you discover it is a difficult word. Its hard to get a good definition. That is appropriate because when we think of policy we have an image in our mind with the definition is in the dictionary. In fact one of the misun
Power to make the laws and a provision that is at issue. I think its important to come want to get to the language of the smiley which my friend embraces i would like it to because as i read those two cases that dont help you very much. I mean hildebrant stock about a particular statute was passed in 1911. It helps the government with its statutory argument because at different statute isnt similar words but we dont know if it was with the same intent. Smiley talks about a sitting legislature and asks whether its exercise of the map drawing power as a legislative exercise or say, more like an impeachment exercise. It doesnt talk about what is at issue here where you people outside that building making a legislative decision. So i didnt see those two cases as helping you that much though please argue to the contrary. But i think the great open question here is what happens when legislative power, over time, expands from a group of people sitting in the state capital to those people plus
What goes on the brain activity is just many fold in terms of the connections that are being made, the synopsis being connected, so we are using that Brain Research to demonstrate that if we can get or not to demonstrate, but to convey to parents that are too busy to have this information that they are brain builders from the minute that that babys born. A lot of things we as parents have taken for granted, the way we raise our kids, there are a lot of parents, the parents that we are trying to reach, that dont have that information. They havent they themselves have not been brought up that way. So they feel like theres nothing i can do. The babies will learn when they go to school at 5 years old. By then its way too late. Thats where the gap, the huge gaps we have, actually theyre finding out that the gaps begin when they are 18 months old. In terms of the number of words. But its not the number of words. Its the quality of the words that are spoken. And the interactions whether youre