Billion. Sydney, just past 8 a. M. Im haidi lun. This is daybreak asia. In new after 6 p. M. York. Im betty liu. We will be looking in all the action on wall street playing into the asiapacific trading day. Two within the last minutes, we got that breaking news out of washington. President trump firing the fbi director james comey. Our chief White House Correspondent has the latest on this news. . Evin, what happened here he fired comey on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions, right . Reporter yes this is breaking is just coming out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, where fbi director comey has been fired. President informing the fbi that he will no longer be leading the bureau. In the letter where he informed mr. Comey of the firing, he says i want to read it to you. He says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three everett occasions separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to
American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel sometimes controversial and even classic ideas that will challenge and sometimes press popular wisdom bringing to bear deeper more rigorous analyses of evidence. Such ideas can at times youll advances or even breakthroughs of the most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education, which makes such advanced wholly possible, is a cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection and the unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education students. While the principle of Academic Freedom is a central freedom of american education, the university of chicago has a rather distinctive and deeply held approach to Academic Freedom, a which im sure youll be hearing more about this evening from some of our panelists. The school of social Service Administration has a a professional school of socia
And the universities of michigan and chicago. This is 90 minutes. Dean guterman ok, good evening everyone. I guess it is evening time now. The sun is setting so early. For those who dont know me, im neil guterman, dean here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings events. American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel, sometimes controversial and even iconoclastic ideas that challenge or sometimes press popular wisdom bring to bear more rigorous evidence. Such ideas can at times fuel advances or even breakthroughs on most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education is the cardinal principal and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection of and unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education of students. While the principal of Academic Freedom is an essential feature of american Higher Education, the
Discussion about Academic Freedom and diversity on College Campuses panelists include a documentary filmmaker plus authors and filmmakers from Yale University and the universities of michigan in chicago. University of Chicago School of social Service Administration hosted the discussion. It is about 90 minutes. Okay, good evening everyone. I am the dean of the school of social Service Administration here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings event. American universities have long been unique institutions that have unique and controversials ideas that bring to bear deeper analyses in evidence. Such ideas can fuel advances or even breakthroughs on many questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in education which makes as possible is the cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom. The pursuit of ideas, concepts, concepts, evidence and knowledge and the passing on of such in the education of our students.
It is rains who in 2019 discovered the infamous ship which brought the last enslaved africans to america and then disappeared for 160 years. The book is a powerful timely narrative described by the washington informer as an actionpacked. Whip smart true account thats filled with science history and compassion. Rains conversation partner tonight is professional professor schwande mustachean. So before i introduced the two of them, i have a few very quick notes first. We are going to put in the chat a link to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can easily with a click or two explore the book and purchase it if youre so inclined. Second like all of our talks you have the option to use closed captioning. That button is at the bottom of your screen and finally in most importantly youre invited to share your questions tonight. Just type them into the q a box at the bottom of your screen and we will take as many as possible towards the end of the prog