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Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about the university of Maryland University college, which is a public Online University, that is designed here we go. Designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and careerrelevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are, i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947, at the university of maryland, as a department t...

There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn ...

Is representative Virginia Foxx, republican of north carolina. Newsmakersa chair of educatid workforce committee. Soon scheduled for floor action. Thank you for being our guest. Let me introduced the two reporters who will ask questions. Both of them cover education beats for michelle of the wall street journal and michael of jalisco. Started, we are taking this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a well covered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama hynde, no child left...

Questions. Both of them cover education beats for their publication Michelle Hackman of wall street. Journal and Michael Stratford of politico. As we get started, we are taking taping this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a wellcovered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama era law, no child left behind and essentially said it , had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of of the federal Education Departments. Is your critique of the legislation as strong...

Certainly worth 25,000. So how that will work in the future is a little unclear to me. Probably the best sort of reporting that ive seen on that recently is that its actually going to begin to control itself because our enrollment simply because the demographic population United States and the number of students who will be applying to college in the future because of the demographic sort of shift in the American Population, the numbers to the point of college is actually going to shrink and we ...

Future work force. So were going to go into our third group of presenters under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely polietto followed by michael rourke, followed by will zimpf. If we can have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk about university of Maryland University college, which is the public Online University that is designed here we go designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessi...

The economy. We keep edging closer to 3 on the tenyear treasury. 386 as of now. Consider this. More Big Companies are giving bonuses. Uhaul is the latest giving 1,200. Thats stimulus. Paychecks going up. Thats stimulus. Government spending going up. And infrastructure package evolving big spending that looks more and more likely. So what happens to Interest Rates . If they go up sharply, expect a reaction on the stock market. Today, the freeranging immigration debate begins. Well see the infrast...

Gives hirs state of the Union Address to congress and the nation. Join cspan for a preview of the evening starting at 8 eastern. And then the state of the union speech live at 9 00 p. M. And following the speech, the democratic response, also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. President trumps state of the Union Address tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the radio app and on demand on your desk phone or tablet at cspan. Org. Education senator betsy devos took pa...

Yu Lieutenant Governor stanford. It is a pleasure serving with you, appreciate all that you are doing, and appreciate the fact you are staying so close to your kids. I cant even get through the first line. This guy is amazing as a dad, a partner, former cfo, he is exactly what the state needs it is a key part of what we have gotten done as well. [applause] governing is a team effort and there are three branches of government and we are well represented here today. We have four of the five Suprem...

Blakley, and michael and wrap up by jeff. We can have blakley. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about university of marylanded and University College which is a public Online University designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible skbalt career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of m...