Shortly after air strikes starts, some lawmakers start to push again for authorization vote but so far, leaders are not gearing up to bring members back to town. It says that speaker of the house John Boehners office deferred to the white house when asked about the issue. The speaker said he thinks it would be good for the country to have a new authorization for the use of military for the but traditionally, requested by the commander in chief and president obama has not done that. From role call, their story about congress not likely to come back to vote on isis authorization. Richard in georgia, democrat, good morning to you. Caller good morning to you. Host go ahead. Caller okay. What is your confidence level . Caller i think hes done everything in the world to try to help the United States in all the countries, allies. He backs everybody up. And hes tried to get the congress to act. And he aint washing away. Hes not turning his back. As far as the level about the troops that was lo
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 as possible so we make peoples dreams bigger, that means we have to be at theo front edge ofom how are you building that affordability for students when it comes to tuition and room and board et cetera. When you think about Michigan State, most of our students aree very middle class, families of. 125,000 or less. And the number of students that leave with its about one years full cost of attendance f with our tuition being about 14,000 for instate students, so we have to make sure that we can do everything we can to reduce costs and one of our we h platforms would be a high performing organization, not simply a cost cutting organization. And
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
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