Good morning. We hope people would take their seats and we could start a great discussion. Good morning governor wolf, governor hutchinson, governor cooper, governor walker, thank you for joining us. , and we want to thank members of the audience, if they could take their seats and we could start an important discussion about pathways to prosperity. Governor malloy, good to see you this morning, thanks for being here. Good morning. We have a great discussion ahead of pathwaysorning to prosperity, examining our possibilities in post secondary education and career learning for our precious kids in the future of this nation. We know that the font of all repository in the governors offices and we know that we have the greatest collection of educational leaders in the history of the on a bipartisan basis, i think there is bipartisan consensus about that. Im looking forward to this discussion. I will kick it off with some comments. A few things we will look for wecussing today, and how to help families finance Higher Education, and had a we make it more accessible to Diverse Communities, how do we expand opportunities for career connected learning, how to we strategies to prioritize our investment, im looking forward to everyones comments about that, just preliminary comment about i know governors have been doing progressive work to make Higher Education more affordable and accessible to our families. We know the debt burden our families have and we recognize that we have talent on a bipartisan basis, governor jerry brown in california has championed a new system in that regard. The governor of kentucky is overseeing the 100 million bond issue to scale up Workforce Development which is exciting. We have governors across the state, governor brown, my neighbor in oregon and others have made the first couple of years free so congratulations to all the governors who are fighting on this front. We know there is innovation available on this front. If i can talk about things that are successful in my state, a program we called the whichunity scholarship allows students, if they make a commitment to a stem career to finance their college education. It has been very helpful for Diverse Communities who previously have had low Graduation Rates and this raises their Graduation Rates above the 90 level. This happened because we had a private and Public Partnership in helping to finance this. Jerry reubens is a very special business person in our state and this thing has been a spectacular success by having a few dollars from the public and that have raised these communities that historically had 50 graduation , or 60 , up to 90 plus for a four your program in stem degrees. Program called collegebound which goes to kids, mostly low income kids in diverse populations, if they will agree to keep their nose clean and get a good gpa, they get a four your program paid and we have introduced Graduation Rates by 25 . Once these kids have a vision of their future we get them through high school. We know Innovation Works and im looking for other ideas to do that. We know we have to look at innovation in our noncollege environment, how to give people connection to the jobs of the future. I do not know what your experience is, but in my experience, there is one thing i say what im talking to any group in the state of washington, republican, democrat, urban, rural, there is one thing i say that gets universal applause and that is that we have to quit telling our kids that if they do not get a four your degree they are a failure in life. Everybody gets that transitional need we have of giving our kids educational opportunities. Governors are leading in many ways. I will share an experience in washington. Have the first Apprenticeship Program of advanced manufacturing where kids are in a paid Apprenticeship Program in high school in tacoma, washington and we have the first group of 12 governor hickenlooper has done a good job in colorado as well i am not the only 1 but we had the first rollout of the first 12 and they came to sign up with the company theyre going to have the apprenticeship with, and they put the shirt on and it was exciting as draft day in the nba. Not as exciteds as these kids who are signing up for an Apprenticeship Program. That is the future we have to give all of our kids. Switzerland are paid apprenticeships, as a result they have almost no unemployment in their young population. We had our first apprentice programs, the first Computer Science coding apprentice program. Have 100 wo classes employment, a lot of these people are midlife and to go into a coding program and give it an apprenticeship has been successful. Im looking forward to everyone sharing their ideas as well. We know we have to do a better job giving populations access to Higher Education, we are doing that, our dreamers are getting Financial Aid to make sure that our dreamers have access. These are some of the most ambitious kids in our state. Have been 18 years in our country and want to become doctors and lawyers and i do not know what ec is going to do in how they treat our dreamers, but in our state we want them to become doctors and lawyers and im glad we are giving them a chance. We know we have some challenges in d. C. , i will look forward to joining my governors and members of congress under chand understand the challenges. There are threats in the Higher Education act, there are proposed cuts to support systems and i hope we will be vocal and talking to our legislators to see we do not go backwards and our Financial Aid system. I want to thank everyone who is pitching in on this and i want to turn it over to south dakotas governor, who has inspired us in semiways, and i want to tell it in so many ways and you are one of the most inspirational voices i have heard making sure our kids with disabilities get access as well. Governor, thank you, and thank you for your leadership. Thank thank you all for being here for this great panel. The pleasure of being joined by the Vice President of education and Knowledge Management at new america, where he directs their education policy program. Kevin is the author of a book called the end of college, creating the future of learning at the university of everywhere. I know he is happy to have me mention that is available on amazon. He has been thinking about this and writing about this so i am interested to hear from kevin. Is susan, a me former Arizona State university student, a participant in the Starbucks College Achievement candidateurrently a for a masters in Public Health at george mason university. Thank you both for being here today. Toill turn it over to dog recognize our third panelist and our first presenter. Doug toit over to recognize our third panelist and our first presenter. Of arizona iernor take great pride in introducing a force of nature from arizona. Inhael came to Arizona State 2002 from Columbia University where he was in charge of science and technology. He came to our state with a grand vision to create a new American University. , notroof is in the pudding only with the fulbright scholars he has been able to attract, retain, and graduate, but with the distinction of being named the nations most Innovative University for the third year running by u. S. News world report, beating out institutions such as stanford and m. I. T. This is the gentleman that has not only transform this university, he has laid the groundwork to transform the state. At Barrett Honors CollegeArizona State university was recently called by the New York Times as the nations Gold Standard in honors colleges, the equivalent of an Ivy League Education at an incredible value to our arizona students. It gives me great pride to introduce, and if we could give the president. To thank you, governor. It is an honor and privilege to be here and speak with you. I come in off the stagecoach from arizona. 48 states added to the front tier. The frontier where new models that can help us shape our future are possible. We have been able to build a new University Model and i mean literally a new model. We call it the new American University. The old ideaalled of what an American University was supposed to be. One that is working with an connected to everyone, unbelievably effective. It could be what the future would need which is a university that has a connection to everyone, connecting at all levels of education and to every citizen that need something from it. You are the arbiters of the future. Your constitutional assignments are unique in our democracy. You have the unique responsibility for advancing and designing those elements of our democracy that are most critically dependent upon education and for overseeing those educational processes. Is question to each of you can we build a new kind of . Ollege or university can we build a system within Higher Education that can be adaptive . Actually respond to the changes around us, rather than something you have all been told. Here is what we are facing. And i use this word intently, a fundamental economic and social change moment, like nothing that anyone alive today or our parents or grandparents or our greatgrandparents have ever experienced, and that is the rate of technological advance will accelerate infinitely and through that acceleration, all things we think about, the way and economy works, the way work is done, the definition of work and education, the definition of a career and job, the definition of all things will be altered by the fact that we all carry around supercomputers in our pocket, etc. You match that with the growing diversity of the american population, with the unbelievable rise of Global Economic powers which is fantastic to the longterm benefit of the population of humanity. You match all of that together and you say what does it take for us to be successful in the future, and i am not a politician, but i will say that if it is not 4 or higher Economic Growth on a threeyear running average and then aggregating to a national level, then we have problems relative to the further advancement of our population. With continuing the american dream, if we cannot maintain that level of economic advance. If we cannot graduate by the age of 18, we are basically assigning students to a life of suffering. We are assigning them to a life of suffering and you know all of this. If we cannot get at least 60 to some kind of secondary certificate and i am using old terms. These are fixed boxes of the past. If we cannot get 60 some kind of secondary certificate, we will not have a workforce able to adjust quickly enough to the thing that is changing everything which is the good is highspeed forever technological advance. If we cant do that, our ability to accelerate social mobility, our ability for democracy to work will be challenged. You and me in the 16 years i have been at Arizona State, we inherited a design for public Higher Education that is rigid, fixed, largely incapable of understanding how to modernize. I do mean individual programs or initiatives or this group for this center, i mean in aggregate. U. S. Government has assisted citizens to go to college through programs. For the half of them have no degree. Half 1 trillion of expenditures. When you have a person who goes to college and is not finish, 33 million or so of those individuals are living in our states. What is the word . What do you call someone who did not finish . Dropouts. It is a derogatory term. We have a system of Higher Education that uses derogatory terms to label people that did not finish their institution which cannot adjust to helping them finish. This fixed model of higher i willis so intent give you two examples. One of your former governors is now president of Purdue University and he has been unbelievably innovative in driving forward a number of initiatives. He tried to acquire an Online Platform so he could scale Purdue Universitys lang Grant Mission to something other than just a few kids that could attend the university in physical form. Could he take the model and expand it out so everyone would have an opportunity to engage purdue . He took that risk. As faculty have assembled, voting against him. They are going to go to chicago and meet with the Higher Learning commission and urge that this thing he acquired from the market he is converting into a knot a notforprofit arm to not be accredited. Insanity for those of you on the purdue faculty. I am telling you. [applause] agoid a program a few years with the starbucks corporation. Starbucks has more than 130,000 employees in the United States. Half or so did not go to college or did not finish. Couldnt a great capitalist Corporation Company like starbucks working with their partners work with a civic minded university to develop a program that can find a way to get people that started college that had debt or some problem i could not solve the problem, couldnt figure out a ways a way see you could graduate from college, from a Great University with no debt . We launched the program and we have 7000 students in the program and we plan on graduating 25,000, for which we had to do brand control to maintain damage control on our own brand. Only a lowlife scum university would be so foolish as to divert the energy of its elite faculty to educating College Dropouts working at starbucks. Gotten. How bad it has frontier, i was 12 years at Columbia University. I grew up there. That was like proving that one could be operating at that kind of level. One of the things i learned was that innovation was central to everything and innovation was largely anachronistic to act except in a laboratory where his engineering prospers around the inventions and discoveries and technologies. Out on the frontier, here is what i decided to do. We built a new design at all levels. The university does not exist for the faculty. This is serious business. Our university exists first for the students, second for the community and lastly, the faculty are the means, rather than the ends. We redefined our entire purpose. We restructured a charter built around what a Public University is supposed to be. Our institution is measured by inclusion. We measure the success of the university based on how on who we include and how our students succeed. Second, what did we actually do to benefit the public and lastly, and this is well articulated in our charter, the university will take responsibility for the outcomes of our community, economic, social, so if k12 is underperforming, we are partly to blame and we better look at it something that we are look at it as something we are responsible for. We changed the design of the university. Most are run like public agencies, and archaic model that will never deliver what you want. They will not be able to become efficient or effective or largely increase their efficacy with some exceptions because the design is wrong. We went away from the agency model to the enterprise model. We are responsible for finding resources beyond those provided to us by the government. All universities do this but a fundamental design shift, we set out to design a different kind of university. We changed our clock speed. This watch my wife gave me many years ago measures the rotation of the earth and the speed of the earth rotation, not a semester. Each second is not a semester. The clock speed of a modern adaptive look University Must be at the speed of the economy, the speed of change, the speed of what it takes to be competitive. We embrace Technology Like no tomorrow. All organizations, if you dont embrace technology, your price will rise infinitely. Suffers from this. We embrace technology in every possible way. We have 100 75 Technology Partners integrated into our institution on campus, allowing us to do other things. All caps is sit in some kind of isolated in arena where they believe they have to solve everything themselves. Their scale is what they think of as the learners who come to campus and if you dont finish you are a dropoff and a dropout and castoff. We decided to change the scale of the focus to a social scale. Could we help 10 corporations or Big Companies like starbucks graduate another 100,000 people over a number of years, a limiting college debt as a problem. Could we work with the entire k12 community . We did, we built a digital platform to work with the entire community. Could we build Charter Schools to prove certain things an