we would like to thank mrs. obama, mrs. bush and all the wonderful first ladies who are here. we are delighted to have you. in the united states, we have a very powerful notion that we all hear about from the time we re children that education is the key to a better future for us and for each successive generation. i heard about it in my family where i was the first person to graduate from college. mrs. obama spoke about it today. i think it was a similar experience for her. here in the united states, we refer to it as the american dream. but in my travels around the world as the ambassador for global women s issues, i have discovered it isn t really just an american dream at all. it s a universal dream. millions of parents want their children, girls and boys, to learn more, to do better, to achieve greater things than they did. i saw it at st. joseph s girl school in sierra leone. we all saw it with the girls trying to hard and against such incredible odds to again an educat
and this morning s cspan bus is on the campus of the university of wisconsin in madison and joining us on the bus is ray cross, who s the president of the university of wisconsin system. thank you for being here. let s begin with this distinction of being the president of the university of wisconsin s system. what does that mean? within the university of wisconsin system, greta, there s 13 four-year institutions and 13 two-year feeder institutions extension is in all 72 counties, in addition to that, there are 180,000 students throughout the system. 40,000 employees. it s roughly the sixth largest system in the united states, with about a $6 billion budget. it s pretty sizable higher education, public higher education operation. what does it mean that you are the president of the system as opposed to a president of just let s say the university of wisconsin, madison, of one site? part of the theory behind a system is that they re meant to coordinate and to develop sta
you re taking a captain out for two years, particularly if they re a company commander or in another leadership position in trying to provide c-2 and leadership for their unit. so it s an issue. from the army national guard, that we remain engaged on what tradoc is, how do we recognize the customer base that is participating in those courses. all kidding aside, great question. it s really a question for tradoc. but as chief of the army reserve, i ve had this question with both the current command for tradoc and past. i ve had discussion with the chief. so my opinion is, and this actually is two and a half years ago, i m having breakfast with the general and he asked me, jeff, what did multicomponents fail? this will get to you. i said, a couple ropes. one i said the culture is the army. and the second is, it was just too hard to integrate. we ve addressed a lot of those unintegrated processes over the last 13 years of fighting. but think about executive education. the best
an event marking the 50th anniversary of the surgeon general s report on smoking. cspan s washington journal recently interviewed presidents in the big ten universities. next university of wisconsin president ray cross, this is about 30 minutes. and this morning s cspan bus is on the campus of the university of wisconsin in madison and joining us on the bus is ray cross, who s the president of the university of wisconsin system. thank you for being here. let s begin with this distinction of being the president of the university of wisconsin s system. what does that mean? within the university of wisconsin system, greta, there s 13 four-year institutions and 13 two-year feeder institutions extension is in all 72 counties, in addition to that, there are 180,000 students throughout the system. 40,000 employees. it s roughly the sixth largest system in the united states, with about a $6 billion budget. it s pretty sizable
how big is the university of wisconsin madison? madison has about 43,000 to 44,000 students. it s probably in the middle of the big ten, sixth or seventh, in that category of big ten. it s the third largest recipient of u.s. dollars, it s a major institution, it s been ranked in the top five ever since i can remember. it puts a tremendous emphasis on research, and all the work that s being done in stem cell research. and changing those into different heart cells and even retina cells. research in the biosciences, it s a phenomenal institution when it comes to research and energy and areas like that, it s been very active in the weather station. i think we have 18 nobel prize winners, engineering and chemistry and medicine and physics, it s a major research institution. and the university of wisconsin madison, its tuition fees for undergraduate degrees, for in state, you re looking at a little over $10,000. out of state the price tag is $26,660. the room and board costs co