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Our next panel explore one of the most Critical Issues facing, president ial and Historic Sites today, the state of civics ihistory, education. Now it is my privilege to introduce our moderator and Julie Silverbrook senior director of partnerships and i civics. Joining her on stage is joni albrecht, director of the John Marshall center for Virginia Museum history and culture jay barth, director of the william j. Clinton president ial library and ohn bridgeland cochaired ceo move perfect and form...

Go back. When you fail, fail forward. The cousin were reaching out to get out of your comfort zone. If you do that, you will succeed. Look the hind and pull people up to replace you someday. That is really how you lead at all levels, reaching out they hand. Everything i talked about today is a lot of information but comes back down to the foundation eating at all levels. Meeting people where they are and bringing them up to your level and helping them to mature so they can replace you someday. H...

Second president elected to serve a full term in Office Without Party Control in either the senate or the house. That made progress, any progress, domestically, very difficult. Candidly speaking, my grandfather did not want to raise taxes in 1990, but our constitutional system of governance says Congress Also gets a say. Besides that, he felt he owed the American People action and results. Compromise is a dirty word in washington today because we live in an age of the perpetual campaign. Once we...

A line from the war was, we had to destroy this village in order to save it. It has become a cliche. A person named turse has written a brilliant book that i recommend. It is called kill anything that moves. He went into the u. S. Archives and dug up the true story that oneoff. S not a we were using civilians as target practice, pushing them out of helicopters, executing them in the fields for no good reason. This is what our nation did. I am going to skip ahead. You think that is in the past. ,...

Institutional Voice Working Group provides a roadmap in new report.

Universities displayed patience and tolerance toward me and other anti-apartheid protesters. That can be a model for today.

Taking classes for fun has become a thing of the past. This price tag makes it inevitable.

Citing what it claims is a small impact on student diversity, Princeton will continue to consider legacy status of applicants as a factor in undergraduate admissions.

David Wippman and Glenn Altschuler review Derek Bok’s Attacking the Elites. Higher education is facing a perfect storm. In polls taken before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, only 36 percent of Americans expressed confidence in higher education, down from 57 percent in 2015.