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Well, what makes it different is we have no deficit due to years of budget cuts and due to the new tax revenues were realizing from voters approval of proposition 30 in november and essentially as he said, this is a breakthrough. Its not without risks. He was careful to caution. Its only january. This is only the start of the budget process. We all mull it over see how the numbers develop. He puts out his may revision then the Legislature Starts fight over it and hopefully we have a document ena...

Access to programs and holding students, of course, accountable for finishing the degrees they do start. Only 58 of fulltime students who started college in 2004 earned their four year degree within six years. That diploma is getting more and more expensive. Although the only Family Income has increased 16 since whitesnake was on the billboard. People tried to sell their tickets on craigs list. We saw them up there for 250 a pair. Fair warning, selling your ticket is illegal and who wants to add...

The most surefire way of making sure our residents can stay here if i given them a highquality education and setting them up to succeed with college so that they can come home and stay here. Thats the only longterm solution. Short of that the only way to make our city affordable is to make it unsafe and no one wants to make it unsafe. [applause] schwartz i have a specific plan and that is to bring back number nine. In my Affordable Housing position paper which you can find on the website either ...

Much so, there is a review and appeal process going on and there is also the work that the trustee is doing to hopefully maintain accreditation. With the college. I mean, its not just hes helping to expedite the decisionmaking processes, but its really the college pulling together to implement the action plan that we set forth to meet the accreditation standards. And, so, is the trustee supporting the review and appeal process . Hes working under that rubric . Yes. The special fruit trustee is w...

Make sure we respect all speakers who are here. So, with that, i dont know if we need to call up hydra mendoza from the Mayors Office. And if we can pass around the few items. It is the accrediting commission questions and answers for commonly asked questions and answers as well as the frequently asked questions for our students that we are promoting and hope that you will help us in promoting. And i thank you for your assistance and the citys for supporting city college. Thank you. Thank you. T...

About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, ...

Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highes...

Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program ou...

All right, everyone, i know this is a very passionate issue for all of us, but i want to make sure we respect all speakers who are here. So, with that, i dont know if we need to call up hydra mendoza from the Mayors Office. And if we can pass around the few items. It is the accrediting commission questions and answers for commonly asked questions and answers as well as the frequently asked questions for our students that we are promoting and hope that you will help us in promoting. And i thank y...

A fair game if the referee has their own agenda applause [cheering and applauding] and is has already decided which team should win. Thats the problem here. applause all right. Would you like to continue with the presentation . Thats pretty much where were at. Were focusing on our action plan, continuing to make changes in the institution, and trying to get the word out that were open, were accredited, and were enrolling students. [inaudible]. All right, everyone, i know this is a very passionat...