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, thank you very much greta. Its a pleasure to be with you today and i appreciate the fact that youre doing this service to educate students and the public at large about the importance of Higher Education. The university of nebraska system as four campuses, one of which is the university of nebraska lincoln, which is a big ten school. It has a little over 25,000 students. There are 51,000 students in the entire system. And that actually represents record enrollment for us. And the cost of an educ
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 highest increase in enrollment this year. Were talking with dr. James linder, the interim president , university of nebraska, lincoln, part of cspan bus Big Ten College tour. We kicked that off this week. Monthlong series of interviews here on the washington journal with University President s. On friday the bus will be at the university of iowa and we will talk with the president there, sally mason, on friday. This morning, though, dr. James linder aboard the cspan bus in lincoln, nebraska. Charles i
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And currently what at georgetown university. [applause] at georgetown university, in 2011 he received wide attention for the course and he talked called one of the sociology of hiphop, jayz. Its earned the book award and the naacp image award for Outstanding Literary Work twice. Dr. Michael eric dyson is a genius who can write about any subject for the late civil rights of and Martin Luther king would reflections on hiphop dinham race, the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. If you turn your tv on, you can often find him on every major media outlet including the the today show, nightline, the oreilly factor, the report. He is a contributing editor to Time Magazine and has an hourlong news program on npr called the the Michael Eric Dyson show. Nbc and join me in welcoming our commentator dr. Michael eric dyson. [applause] thank you, president elect armstrong for that very gracious introduction. Its an honor to be here today to talk about this very serious matter and how we can dismantle the
Thank you for the opportunity to be here. My particular paper is coauthored with Wilda Rodriguez who could not be here today. We focused on how the shortcomings of a post secondary ratings system could lead to shortchanging hispanicserving institutions and their outcomes. So as Todays Research and other Research Indicates there are well documented differences in student and institutional characteristics between hsis and nonhsis that would lead hsis to have lower Graduation Rates on average than nonhsis. And so our analysis at the beginning of this paper in the previous session we talked about the possibility of adjusting for some of these student and institutional characteristics. And so in fact at the beginning of our paper, we find that when we account for student characteristics, Financial Resources of institutions, policies at institutions that might influence completion, whether or not an institution has an open admissions policy, that the gaps in Graduation Rates, since thats the