higher education and many other publications. he now has a regular gig at the new york times. he makes his professional home at the new america foundation and he directing directs the education policy program there. and, of course he s the author of end of college, which we ll be talking about today. but i thought i d also tell you a few things you might not know about kevin, because he contains multitudes. as a blogger, he has established a reputation over the years for finding excuse and i really mean any excuse to write about the education policy implications of shows like the wire and friday night lights. and when you read his book, you ll find references to downton abbey, to game of thrones, and there s probably others that i missed. i m going to be very disappointed in his talk today if kevin doesn t at least mention better call saul or the serial. [laughter] he s a musician officionado a student of the perhaps tease and although she s trapeze and i wo
cried archives here in washington. this is about 20 minutes. good evening. i m the archivist of the united states and is a pleasure to welcome you to the national archives in theater this evening. a special welcome to our friends at c-span and the other media outlets who are with us tonight. we have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the national archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future supreme court justice, judge alito when he was at the u.s. court of appeals on the third circuit. welcome. on monday the constitution of the united states turned 225. tonight s program is one of several that the national archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of united states co
principled leader as yourself within these leadership positions someday? well, there are formal leadership positions and then there s leadership. you know, that would be my answer. the american people will recognize what the leadership is in the senate. and there s elected leadership posts and then there s people who represent through a vision what the american people want and are willing to stand up for that. and there s hundreds of thousands of people in america that feel the way i do, and we need them to step forward. but also we need them to hold others accountable. i don t worry about all that. you know, the fact is that there s a truth out there about what our problems are, and what some of the solutions are. and what we need is people speaking that truth, and not being afraid to take the consternation of their peers and the cold shoulders that you get about speaking what the facts are and the system is ill. the system has some sickness, and what i m trying to do is g
since at least some of the drama surrounding speeches involved protesters perspective that the day should be about the graduates and not the arguably, contentious views of the speakers. but that is not the path that the speakers at haverford and smith chose. william bowen, former president of princeton university and andrew mellon foundation was as another of honorary degree recipients already scheduled to speak sunday at haverford s ceremony.en in his first bite of the apple as he called the initial 10 minute speech he told story that made fun of honorary degree holders everywhere. in days leading up to commencement, bowen said via email he was encouraged to say something about the rather confused controversy and might look as if you were simply duck it. bowen did not hold back. he disputed statement by one of the protesters that the berkeley chancellor withdrawal was a small victory for the college. it represents nothing of the kind, bowen said, i regard this out come as de
we begin there are with the latest protests over commencement speakers and whether you think they should reflect students values. democrats, (202) 585-3880. republicans, (202) 585-3881. an independents and all others, (202) 585-3882. college graduates, we want to hear from you, (202) 585-5883. join the conversation on facebook.com/c-span, send us a .weet @cspanwj, or e-mail us we will get to your thoughts in a minute but let me begin with iece. inside higher ed p substitutes speak out. in a season in which numerous commencement speakers with drew. free speech and the crucial place of disagreement and free exchange and higher education. one of them did so in a way that appeared to hurt the feeling of graduates. sees its share of controversies, but this year pur intenses debate. some of those who drew enmity were generally well regarded, not overtly partisan figures. robert birgeneau withdrew as a speaker at pennsylvania s haverford college. at smith college, christine lagard