Senate with one year in the house of representatives and your background as a high school teacher. Absolutely, im sure by now, most folks have read in their local paper about my background growing up in poverty, right here in billings and the adversity that i experienced, most people know that i have dedicated my life to education because its the pathway to major coming the adversity that i have experienced, the experience that i have had in a working class family in the state of montana absolutely make us the best person to be our voice in the United States senate. I do agree that we need to have more of a stenotype legislature serving us back in washington, men and women who have real world experience who can give back. Growing up in boseman, my grandma still lives in the same 1,100 square feet home on avenue c until she passed away a few months ago. I started watching a man and woman start a Construction Business from nothing. We moved about every year and a half to stay a step ahea
To that . We have a we have had a Historic Program with haiti in food and health, and we have also a number of our faculty from the medical schools who are working in haiti periodically as is permitted, given the current circumstances. Curr but its important for us to doo we also have included haitian students, interestingly as a h migrant program, because as you know, many students from haiti u migrated into florida. And we have a university of Michigan Migrant Program for students from haiti. P president simon, i want to ask you about one thing youre involved in. The National Security Higher Education advisory board. What is that . It was formed a while ago, ty be advisory to the director of the cia and the fbi to try to Better Connect the voices of ivi universities with National Security issues, that were all n need to be worried about. And its a group of university o president s, that talks about an everything from Cyber Security to how we can better understand intern the dynamics
One free of politics that allows you to take advantage of lower rates and have more peace of mind. That is exactly what we have been working on. In the house, we have not just talked about it, we passed it. We the Democrat Senate to act. On behalf of students and parents across the nation, i call on Senate Democrats to join with us and help pass a bipartisan student loan reform when the Senate Returns to work next week. And president obama should do his part by urging his fellow democrats to work with us. Will not let up until they agree to do the right thing. Thank you for listening. God bless america. Next washington for househe Alliance Reform talks about the obama administrations announcement that the mandate for large employers to provide Insurance Coverage has been delayed from 2014 until 2015. A New York Times correspondent talks about a recent report showed america has the highest childbirth cost and the world. The Washing Institute has the latest in egypt. Live on c journal sp
Because it was cheaper and my dad paid room and board. I actually worked my way through college when i was there. I just dont remember what per credit hour costs were, but im sorry about that. Thats okay. Caller i wanted to let this wonderful president of Michigan State university know that i graduated from James Madison college within Michigan State, and it was hard, but i learned a lot. I wish i would have studied more. If theres any kids listening out there, study more in college. Wul be hap youll be happier in life. I regret some of the waste of time i had there, but thats my own issue. Thank you very much this morning. Byebye now. Well, beverly, thank you very much, and academic rigor is something that is a partnership between students and faculty, and James Madison does represent that, and right now she commented that she worked through college, and about 60 to 70 of our students would report that they work, were still a middle class, upper mobility kind of place with a world cla
Now washington journals interview with Michigan State University President lou anna simon, she talks about priorities for the university and Higher Education moving forward. Its part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is 35 minutes. The cou cspan bus has been on a tour of the big ten colleges across the country for the past few weeks and along the way here on the washington journal, we haver been talking withni university t president s aboutat Higher Education issues, the point is e cspan bus is on the campus of on Michigan State university, in east lansing, michigan, joining us aboard the bus, is lou anna si simon. Let me get started rightti away with the challenges that you see in Higher Education. Value good morning, and its a y. Beautiful day in east lansing ge so the promise of Higher Education creating not 1i6rle a job, but a terrific life. And one of our challenges is always to be sure that we work in a way to be as Cost Effective and relevant