Issue. States have recognized the important evidencebased approaches to these assessments in assuring they are not done in isolation. In fact, it is very much with the family. Not just the family, the extended family, community representatives, stakeholders in the success of the changed outcome. As mr. Nyby mentioned, we need to professionally equip our staff with training on what evidencebased Research Assessment tools are. A key component of the efficacy is that the family is involved. In utah, i am happy to say we have taken a National Standard and created a utah family and child Assessment Tool that is insistently revisited as a tool for cases. When a parent says they could really use assessment in mental health, with a Substance Abuse disorder, it is consistently revisited. Perhaps the initial intervention is not successful, but still they seek change as a result. My concern in asking the question about caseworkers assessment and the tearing apart of families is that ultimately, what we may see in the long run, are fewer people calling for help when they needed because of the fear. If you have any Closing Remarks on that, my time is actually up. I want to thank all of the witnesses here today. You have been good, each one of you. Each of you has brought somewhat if not a very important perspective to this. I want to thank all the witnesses for appearing today. I also want to thank all of the senators who participated. This is been a compelling discussion. I appreciate everyones participation. Any questions for the record should be cemented no later than tuesday, august 18. I hope you give your interest back as soon as possible. Your answers back as soon as possible. That helps us move forward with legislation. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to be with us. We got a variety of perspectives here today. All of you agree that we can do a better job than we are doing now, and i would like to see that we do. God bless all of you and thank you for being here. We will recess until further notice. This week on a newsmaker frank pallone, ranking number of the energy and Commerce Committee talks about president obamas Climate Change plan and the future of energy developed. Newsmakers sunday at 10 00 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Carol. Carol folt talks about College Affordability at the National Press club in washington dc tuesday. She also talked about the issues facing Higher Education institutions including guns and the role of Campus Police, and t uition for undocumented students. This is about one hour. Our guest today is carol folt chancellor of the university of carolina at chapel hill. The first women to hold that post into 13 after a National Wide search upon resignation of a scandal that put this cool thi schs schools accreditation at risk. About 3000 students, many athletes tooko sham classes and took great not based on academic performance. In response, folt issued some 17 reforms. The ncca has regardless submitted inquiries. Sentience on the athletic graham is not have the questions. Sanctions on the Athletic Program is not out of the question. Folt spent 30 years at dartmouth as a faculty member and administrator, and served as an interim president before moving to unc chapel hill. After resolving the athletic scandal, folt is keenly interested on boosting undergraduate rates, particularly among low income and under represented students. A decade ago, the university instituted the carolina covenant, rewarding students scholarships and workstudy opportunities to avoid Student Loans and graduate debtfree. Today, our speaker will address the importance of preserving access to an Affordable College education. Please join me in giving award National Press club welcome to chancellor carol folt. [applause] carol folt thank you for introducing me. It is such a pleasure to be here. I am looking forward to this injury questions. Be sure to put down lots of good ones. And your questions. This is an expert in our time to be chancellor at unc chapel hill. I wouldnt have any other job in america. [applause] yes, chapel hill people. In fact, if you are interested in Higher Education, i think this is the best time to be a president or chancellor in Higher Education in america. What happens in Higher Education is so important for the nation. Our business is a very serious one. People take it very seriously. We have a huge impact on individuals and the future of the nation. It is a time when we have the opportunity to really shepherd in the great changes that are taking place. It is a real pleasure to be here. Carolina has a very big footprint. It is the Oldest Public University in america. The first to actually graduate students, in fact the only Public University to graduate students in the 1700s. It has an extremely proud legacy. As proud of what we are doing to get past these issues that you raised, we are very proud of what we are trying to do. I will say that working in Higher Education, the new normal is to be facing some of the greatest issues of the day. Yes, we are looking how to balance athletics and academics. We are all thinking about how to deal with Sexual Assault. We are all trying to help the country understand the Value Proposition of Higher Education. These are the issues that we face. These are the issues that those of you in the press cover all the time. I think its really important that we have these conversations. Its exciting to be at the kickoff of the month of august, speaking to you today particularly about the importance of serving affordability, accessibility and attainment in a Great College degree. Id also like to thank the National Press club members everyone at the head table. Looking particularly at mary cooper who will be our convocation speaker. The first time we had a graduate speak, very excited about that. The people that are here, members from the North Carolina dedication. North carolina delegation. Thank you all from coming. And of course, carolina alumni, thank you for being here. I would like to start by overhearing what unc chapel hill is. We really understand what goes on in the university. To understand the context of affordability, sensibility, it is good to know what we are trying to bring our students into. Unc we call it carolina has a budget between 4 and 6 billion dollars figure. It depends on whether we are including our hospitals or not. It has over 3 billion in endowment. We raised a lot of money for filling the. 440 million from our generous alumni. Money from philanthropy. Our alumns are sticking with us through the times of trial. That makes a really great statement. We also get a lot of money from research. Carolina has been increasing its report portfolio. Its research before the. Almost 1 billion in research funding. One of the seventh highst est in nih funding. This will save lives and change the world. We bring in more than 7 billion estimated in revenue to the state. More than 10,000 people employed in various aspects of our institution. We have more than 43,000 applications 33,000 applications for entrylevel positions. Top 10 top one programs in so many fields from medicine, humanities, social sciences. One of the points i want to make is that accessibility and affordability, especially for those of low income and force first generation, should get to the best universities in america. We should consider that part of our mission. Its important that they come in and understand what is happening in the world. We just recently had a number of stories you may have read about in the paper, a Historic Partnership with gsk to solve aids. The program is going to have a number of undergraduates that are going to be working in it. We have a Population Center that got 185 million grant the largest grant in history to basically look at the metrics for Global Health and gender relations throughout the world. We received 100 million gift to build entrepreneurial activities. This is what we want students to learn about as they are going to college. Exactly two weeks from today hard to believe classes are going to begin at carolina. Its clearly one of the best times of the year. You just cant beat the buzz on campus. Its exciting. It is a school where people smile, and they see as they walk along i think it is the light blue. That helps. It is really exciting. They also are scared to death. Is a big deal. They are coming to college it is our job when they come to make sure they can be successful. That is part of everything that we think about doing. For many of them at carolina, it is over 20 they will be the first generation to attend university. We are really proud of that. That is so important. More than 14 of them are going to come from the lowest income families families with Median Incomes of 22,000 a year, 23,000 a year. We will also have students coming from all rings of the socioeconomic stratus across the country and that is what that place feels like. I tell students to try to remember the magical feeling they feel on that first day that anything is possible, whatever they want is what they are really going to be able to find their work to do, and that is my message always to them feel as good on the second day as you did on the first, or remember there is no limit. Of course, that first day on august 18, between that day there is another important day on the calendar, friday, august 7, tuition bills are due. I do not know how many of you have students going to college right now. How many of you have students paying to wish and bills wishon bills . Tution bill . I will give you a number that could shock you the tuition is 8,000. We have very low tuition. The debt for students at North Carolina has not changed in inflationscaled dollars for more than 15 years. So, this is going to be the story about things that do work, to try to do it, and i think it is really important because we have to understand how to scale the parts of our institutions that are working to be more effective. We have about 20,000 undergraduates. Of those, 43 , even with that tuition, are going to receive a form of needbased aid. There is still great need out there. The Median Income in North Carolina is less than 50,000 a year. This can still be an important part of their experience. North carolina is one of possibly two public universities that is needblind we do not consider parents income in the application and one of the only ones remaining that meets full need after they fell out there equation, we cover the rest of the need. This is important if youre going to help students attain a successful degree. I am acutely aware that for students to attend carolina and many other universities in america, the start of the Academic Year is one of great excitement, but most of our high school students, less than half, are going to be going to college. They do not have that same sense of optimism. Many selfselect and think that they are not going to be able to do it. They are fearful that they are not going to be able to afford it, and they are afraid to assume a debt load that they think they will never be able to pay. New data shows that the average debt at a graduation is about 35,000 for students that do go to college. Carolina, it is 17,000. Again, keeping those costs low is a way to help attract capable students. It is very important if you look at the United States statistics, we have about 3. 2 Million Students regimen from high school. About 1. 8 million of them will apply to a fouryear university, but in the end, only about 9 million of them are going to 900 thousand will graduate to that means about 2. 3 million graduates, High School Kids are not making it into college, and more than 50 that, are, on average, not graduating. There is a lot of work here. Many who start did not finish. It is known to be a negative cycle. We also know that Educational Attainment is one of the most prominent determinants of class status. It is unofficial sorting that takes place and it is not helpful. It tends to reinforce the social economic gap, the disparities, i know everyone in this room wishes we could eliminate, and it is happening even more so. College applications are going down. At the very moment when we know the skills of college are actually more valued. We know the lifetime earnings of someone with a College Degree are considerably greater. We also know that the new knowledge economy, the one that is bursting and growing the one the country wants to compete in is requiring the skills of a college graduate, and it is not just their stem skills and their programming it is their writing skills, Critical Thinking, problemsolving. Without those, we are not going to bring those 2. 3 Million High School students every year back to be part of a flourishing national economy. So, we know we have to do it and im going to give you some examples of ways i think it is working well at unc, things that i think can be scaled, but that is really the issue ahead. First of all, you have to build universities that draw on the talent of people from all incomes and all backgrounds. Admission is critical to that. If you are selfselected for wealth, you are going to get it, but that is hard. Most students schools, in the last five years, and we had funds from the state, most of them drop the needblind admissions programs. That is a tendency because they believed they could not afford it. We also know they have to get into the field that contributes to the knowledge economy so they can be part of that burgeoning growth area. We know that it is a world of change. If we are not getting students into programs that teach people change i do not believe you want to put people into single scale programs because everyone knows the skill today is probably not the business hiring in five years. It is our job to be training them to get the diverse skills of the multifaceted learner. So, universities have to be the catalyst to this the places where we nurture this type of energy, but the question is our our universities meeting the need question mark if we are great need . If we are not, we have to get on the ball fast. The brookings hamilton project recently released a report that showed that Family Income is may the strongest predictor of Graduation Rate. That is a very sad statistic because they can even control for s. A. T. And other levels of attainment. That is something we are constantly trying to think about. The likelihood of a student from a highend come bracket graduating is fivetimes greater than the student from the lower income bracket, all other things being equal. These things play out more in underrepresented populations. The trends are even greater. We find these troubling. I spent my whole life in fire higher ed trying to change these china grentech and that is why i thought trendlines and that is why i found my slice of heaven in North Carolina because i was able to come to a university doing this in such a strong way. 14 times kiplinger named North Carolina the best value. The New York Times ranked North Carolina the third most economically diverse and to be above on the list you had to have Graduation Rates above 70 . Hours are much higher than that. Of the universities educate 70 of the students in america. I am proud of what we account pushed, i will you some examples, but that does not mean it is all right. We have a long ways to go. How did carolina get here in a way, we have to almost go back to 1789. When carolina began as a great experiment it came out of the revolutionary war. It was an idea that we are going to have freedom, we had better have education. It was founded at the same time we had our first president inaugurated, and it said we are going to get education to improve the life of north carolinians at the lowest price correctable. Practical. It is in the dna of the distant of the institution. That is in part from the getgo. The First Student walked 133 miles to get to the university but we pride ourselves on reaching out to people from every part of the community, not only in the state, but across the country, and bringing people from every kind of means to the university. How do we do it . Well, it is important that we i have to start by saying we do it in part because we still have a generous state. North carolina is still supported well. We have had more than 30 cut in the last five years but we are still generously supported. That is important. All of the future has to find a way to continue to get some public dollars. If we care about this, public dollars are going to be important, even if we supplemented with philanthropy and all sorts of ideas. That is an advantage for us. Americans have a 1 trillion National Student that. Ac tuition rising. We have to be able to they see tuition rising. We have to be able to counter that. To keep tuition low, we have to make decisions all the time, and some of them are not fun they hurt. We hav