I say that without any hesitation. So you better be good today. All right. It is great to call you chairman. We have called you many titles before. Its great to have chairman. You have called me many fames before. Be honest. That may be true. Go ahead dr. Rose. I am steve rose, president of Pass Aic County Community College. Our main campus is in patterson, New Jersey, the third largest city in our state. I have been president since 1996 and have been at the college since 1987. When i arrived we had 2,000 students a year. Turntly we serve over 11,000. This growth is fairly typical of Community Colleges during this time span. 80 of our students are minority with many having english as their second language. Maniel enrolled to seek an Associates Degree. Others come seeking our Work Force Development programs in Health Care and technology fields. The topic of this hearing, this is why Community Colleges were created. Pccc, like most Community College is an open Admission Institution servi
Express concern about tyranny of the executive. Those leaders reached a compromise that satisfied both that the debate over the scope and the role of a changing presidency continues. You will hear heritage visiting Scholar Doctor Allen guelzo tell the debate on the Role And Scope of the presidency here Doctor Allen Guelzo is a senior Research Scholar in the council of humanities and initiative on politics in statesmanship in the James Madison Program at penn state university. And as i mentioned before, hes one of ours renowned visiting scholars here at the Heritage Foundation for the former Institute Center for american studies. As an acclaimed scholar of american history, dr. Guelzo writing has been recognized as among the most important contributions both scholarly and public understanding of the 19th century of america. For example, his book abraham lincoln, Redeemer President received the 20000 Lincoln Prize as well as the 2000 Book Prize of the Abraham Institute of the midatlantic
A truly great public servant. He was a director of the nsc under bush i say public servant and at days when that meant something and it really mattered. And we respected people who hold these high positions. We look to hearing from him tonight. I think now, without even leaving the stage im going to get the first panel underway so we can start this. As a College Professor to get your notepads out, discussion. Were going to start the first panel. I want to invite the panelist to come up to the stage. Tim from the university of toronto was here at smu is going to come on up, tim, hes going to chair the panel and lead the discussion about this. He works on other things, nato think nato has been in the news quite a bit so make a note of that. Megan osullivan who is a Kirkpatrick Professor in the kennedy school at harvard, an expert on North America among other things. One of the officials of the trilateral commission and former member of the bush security council. And finally of course pet
Colleague, the best present of the best of world affairs in the United States. No it a lot of World Affair Council members here, jim who very, very grateful to jim for his help with this. So as i said, weve got the players including Steven Hadley who will be speaking tonight. A truly great public servant. He was a director of the nsc under bush i say public servant and at days when that meant something and it really mattered. And we respected people who hold these high positions. We look to hearing from him tonight. I think now, without even leaving the stage im going to get the first panel underway so we can start this. As a College Professor to get your notepads out, discussion. Were going to start the first panel. I want to invite the panelist to come up to the stage. Tim from the university of toronto was here at smu is going to come on up, tim, hes going to chair the panel and lead the discussion about this. He works on other things, nato think nato has been in the news quite a bi
Unions use their power to press government to put their interests first. In contract negotiations, unions always insist on senioritybased layoffs. This gives guaranteed Job Security to the more senior members who have more activity in the union. It also means School Districts are forced to lay off the new hires first, even if the teachers are star performers. Parents object, but the unions have decided they can accept that. Unions also want, understandably, very generous retirement benefits for their members. In michigan, 27 of School Districts budgets are going to provide pensions and health benefits. Its not hard to see why. In the state, you can retire after 25 years on the job and collect full benefits. So you have a lot of teachers retiring in their late 40s or early 50s. But if you care about getting a Classroom Dollar spent on the classroom, that is a problem in the state facing a tremendous Budget Crunch like michigan is. But when the legislature recently proposed raising the m