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>> i like to point out we talk about you may not know next semester whether or not you have a job in order to teach because of the job insecurity. that also means students that if you took a class, with you this semester you may not be around next semester to write a letter of recommendation. i think its mostly invisible to students. they see us standing up there and giving assignments and they dont realize the differences in how people are experiencing their job. what then can unionization do t...

Test. but then youd have mechanical engineers. youre a large engineering school, purdue. so i would assume you would want a specialized test so that all mechanical engineer garage walt who is graduate with an m.e. then end up being tested with the same test nationwide. that would be your vision here? >> yes, ideally. there are a lot of those around now, and where they arent i think the market is demanding this. so yes, its difficult. yes higher ed has avoided it in the past, but the marketplace ...

Government shutting down, way beyond education, no upside. >> the department of education facing a shutdown, tell me about the political climate. >> whats so sad to me is that this is not how other countries are managing their educational investment. theyre investing more in early childhood, improving k-12, expanding access to higher ed. and as a nation, i worry about our economic competitiveness. our children are the smartest, most talented children anywhere in the world. i want to keep high-wa...

Why youve seen inflation in higher education just eclipse anything, even health carries minor the amount of inflation compared to higher ed. clearly it is economics 101. that if you give people the money to pay almost any price, the people who are charging it will charge more. gregg: whats astonishing, tuition actually has very little to do with real actual costs and the reason i know this is, i read your study at the cato institute. i want to put it up on the screen here. here is college tuitio...

Is they represent a transition in the way this administration is talking about the economy. so for the last couple of years since they came into office in 2009, its been all emergency measures. right now we have a horrific unemployment crisis, at times a financial crisis and weep ne ne do whatever we can to pump money into the economy. a lot of these speeches represent a pivot, if you will, from that kind of looking at the economy, that kind of emergency members complete triage look to longer te...

The cost of health care in our country down in both the public and private sector and that is what is largely responsible for the deficit coming down. we all care about frugality. we dont want to spend any money we dont have to. but we do want to invest in the education of our children, the safety of our neighborhoods and the rest and even if you dont, you have to remember that teachers and firefighters and police officers are consumers. >> right. >> those investments are important. so when we t...

Affordable care act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down in both the public and private sector and that is what is largely responsible for the deficit coming down. we all care about frugality. we dont want to spend any money we dont have to. but we do want to invest in the education of our children, the safety of our neighborhoods and the rest and even if you dont, you have to remember that teachers and firefighters and police officers are consumers. >> right. >> those investm...

Not knowing they werent the same. i knew immediately and made a noise and one of my message board and we went back and forth four hours when i should be working. >> and president obama, a person straight down the middle. i am tired of nird purit i. i really am. there is no difference between the movies. these are romantic comeddies. it is like confusing you got mail with sleepless in seattle. >> didnt it win a tv show? >> star trek? >> it was a movie, too. >> it was a tv show. >> star wars was a...

Harvard but everywhere. higher ed is going through so many difficult changes in the future with the cost is so out of whack. you have massive online courses are going to disrupt some of the traditional higher education, maybe less people will be going to college campuses ten to 20 years from now and it may disrupt some of the political activity that has been so one-sided. other than that, i dont see why it would change more conservatives coming to campus. libertarian students are making some inr...

Harvard but everywhere. higher ed is going through so many difficult changes in the future with the cost is so out of whack. you have massive online courses are going to disrupt some of the traditional higher education, maybe less people will be going to college campuses ten to 20 years from now and it may disrupt some of the political activity that has been so one-sided. other than that, i dont see why it would change more conservatives coming to campus. libertarian students are making some inr...