Our guest today, general ann dunwoody, has scored a number of firsts. She is the first woman in u. S. Military history to achieve the fourstar rank, she was the first woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division, and she was the first woman to command the combined arm support command. For the last four years of her active duty, ann helded the u. S. Army material command. Now retired, she was in charge of the Largest Global Logistics Command in the army comprised of 69000 military and civilians located in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. She managed a budget of 60 billion. Im jealous. And was responsible for oversight of approximately 70 billion in service contracts. Army chief of staff general ray odierno called ann quite simply the best loy sticks the army has ever had. And has pads ann has passed on some of the strategies she used to earn this praise in her new book. Walter isaacson, president and ceo of the Aspen Institute and author of the innovators, has sa
Our guest today, general ann dunwoody, has scored a number of firsts. She is the first woman in u. S. Military history to achieve the fourstar rank, she was the first woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division, and she was the first woman to command the combined arm support command. For the last four years of her active duty, ann helded the u. S. Army material command. Now retired, she was in charge of the Largest Global Logistics Command in the army comprised of 69000 military and civilians located in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. She managed a budget of 60 billion. Im jealous. And was responsible for oversight of approximately 70 billion in service contracts. Army chief of staff general ray odierno called ann quite simply the best loy sticks the army has ever had. And has pads ann has passed on some of the strategies she used to earn this praise in her new book. Walter isaacson, president and ceo of the Aspen Institute and author of the innovators, has sa
This is not the education we think of as a College Education, meaning on a campus with learning communities, the broader experience, but there are certain aspects of learning that occur. There are other formats here. Theres a lot of talk about what carnegie melon caughts the open learning model, the intelligent tutor. This is an ai intelligence based interactive situation. I ithica and other groups do behind trails on this and found out techniques that are not involved at all, you learn twice as deep and twice as fast in certain areas. The third area, i guess its called interest game, for those who know anything about science fiction, this is deeply immersive gaming. Once, again, it expands very, very parpdly, but in each case, the rapidly, but in each case, the learning process is significantly different with these than what you see op College Campuses which are facetoface, highly inter[talking over each other] interactive, and students learn more in formal settings. Its stimulating a
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the concluding day of the symposium on the future of Public Research universities. Before i introduce the panel, just remind you all as you may see, we are being filmed for cspan. When we get to the q a portion today, it is important to use the microphone and he will do better than i will. I should turn it up. Thank you for your interest. I would like to introduce the topic that we will focus on this morning. Then i will turn it over to a discussion with our panelists and get you involved. We are talking right now about Research Scholarships and the arts. At the public universities. In essence, what we are talking about, it is the faculty. The faculty and who they are, as well as the teacher faculty, including the graduate students. I would argue that we are in a time of huge challenge in the ability of public universities to recruit the best and retain the best and to sustain the kind of conditions that create outstanding scholarships, as well as t
The gentlemen. Gentleman. I have some questions about iran and nuclear policy. In the last press conference by president obama a something in this press conference which i thought was different from the past. All along in recent months he has been talking about a nuclear bomb or nuclear weapon, specifically mentioning that a something iran cannot get. In a press conference, he went beyond that and said nuclear capability. I wonder if this is the same position, or is this something new, changing course . The second thing is for the entire panel, ellen laipson, too. The red lines, basically encouraged by the israelis, those have been gone for some time. Now there is something emerging, and that is the year 2013. I see that as a new version of the deadline. Would you say significantly year everything should be settled with iran or we go to the next option . What you think of the casual use of the year as a deadline . Ok, thank you. I think all of these different shades of gray from total