And by the way, youll get a pretty good b. S. Monitor as you watch this more and more, who really means what they say. The key is does the person who is running for office saying what theyre going to do, if they get elected, do they actually do it . Thats really what matters. Is it just fluff . Is it just bluster, or are they actually pushing the cause, fighting for the idea . And the last point i would say is get beyond emotion. Dont base your decisions on emotions or make your arguments based on emotion. Go deeper than that. Go to reason. Rita quinas here at georgetown, base your decisions based on reason, logic, principle, and find out if a person actually has that. If theyre taking their decisions and filtering through a set of principles that offer solutions so that theyre going in a consistent direction, so theyre not pandering or being simply a populist or simply running in circles. That, to me, is what i found is helpful when youre trying to judge whether or not a person has ea
200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 100,000. For rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. More from interviews with University President s in the big 10 conference. This is Robert Barchi from rutgers. Its about 40 minutes. Cspan bus big 10 tour wraps up today. Today, cspan is on the campus of Rutgers University in new jersey. Joining us from rutgers is the University President there, dr. Robert barchi. He will take your questions, your comments about Higher Education. Let me give the lines out here for our viewers. Students, 2025853880. Parents, 2025852881. Educators, 2025853882. New jersey residents, 2025853883. You dont have to have ties to rutgers. We want to hear comments, questions about Higher Education. Dr. Barchi, let me begin with what keeps you up at night about Higher Education, the challenges with it. Well, that is a huge question. I guess it depends on the day of the week. Theres something every day that keeps me up at night. I guess the biggest
Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of di
Face is often that there are we have to look at these problems not only from the question of, heres a new service, such as maybe being used by initially by a small slays of the population that has certain selfregulating characteristics to it. When you think about a Regulatory Regime that will apply not only to what exists today but with what comes after it. How these individual services revolve, what new services are created in the same space. So theyre there needs to be an openedminedness on the part of local governments and also a measure of caution that says what works for Transportation Company x may actually turn out to not be sufficiently protective of the Public Interests when it comes to Transportation Company y that starts up next week. So, i think thats the balance we have but we certainly found that most of the companies in the space have been very open to working with us at the local level and its a dialogue that the city of austin at least is very open to having. Adam cono
Together and its not going to look like these old models of lobbying, and i tell you what that looks like inside congress is this tendency to use a Campaign Technology for governing and what its doing is making governing look like campaigning. I think people who look at congress can see this. It cant be petition sites and cant be like the correspondence Management System of congress sorts sentiment, not substance. Unless we figure out a way to privilege certain kinds of information that match institutional functions, like the subcommittee institutionally responsible for . That is the information it needs at the right time for authentic high reputation sources. So its this kind of like my dream is that were going to move toward a future where this community that has largely commercial interests in the space, reserves or helps create some new rules because i feel like every single time its these process rules that are just missing and they really dont exist right now for civic social nor