Public speaker who has given talks on four continents. He is also advised governments both domestically and abroad and even served in president obamas education policy team. Lastly, david kirp is a contributor to the New York Times and awardwinning author of 17 books including improbable scholars, kids first, and the sandbox investment. The College Dropout scandal, the authors latest work, exposes several Shocking Facts about the Higher Education system today. Almost 40 of students leave university with no degree. Almost 60 of Community College students drop out without an associates or transferring within three years. The author especially highlights students of color, those from poor families and those who are the first generation to attend college as these Group Situation is particularly dire. In order to solve this crisis the author proposes several solutions and in particular he emphasizes the necessity of making students feel like they belong and giving them the essential persona
Ago. Record rainfall in South Carolina caused deadly flash floods. 12 people were killed in the carolinas and the danger is far from over. Authorities are watching several waterlogged dams that could overflow. Members of the South Carolina National Guard have been searching for people who are missing and some in towns that have been cut off. We assess the scene, there was people waving towels and getting our attention and i think we rescued about 25 people out of that one neighborhood. Drinking water has been contaminated for tens of thousands. Last night president obama signed a disaster declaration for South Carolina that frees up federal money for temporary housing and other assistance. Amazing. We are starving for water and they got 2 feet of water in 24 hours. There was a time when i lived in chicago and we had a training effect one impulse after another after another and we had 17 in 24 hours. You have a double sump pump system in the system to get the water out. It couldnt handl
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
Thanks so much, and thanks again to cspan for their focus on higher ed, its very important of course. Throughout 2014, cspan has brought you more than 130 candidate debates from across the country, in races that will determine control over the next congress, and this tuesday night, watch cspans live Election Night coverage, to see who wins, who loses and which party will control the house and senate. Our coverage begins at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with results and analysis, youll also see candidate victories and concession speeches in some of the most closely watched races around the country. Tonight and tomorrow morning we want to hear from you, with your calls, facebook comment s tweet. 2014 election coverage on cspan. Here are just a few of the comments we have recently steved from our viewers. Calling to comment on a debate that i saw between bruce fine and a man named john ewe, regarding the declaration of war and the war powers act. Quite interesting to watch the legal debate and it al
That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res