Education and accomplish history professor specializing in early us history hes held the Thomas Jefferson chair in American History at the university for the past five years and before that he taught at the university of california and at boston university. He has written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and beyond two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996 and William Cooperstown over the politician William Cooper and the novelist james cooper and in 2014 he wrote about slavery in virginia during the war of 1812 and the contradictions of early Virginia Society. Thomas jeffersons education he turned his attention to the establishment of the university of virginia with jefferson of course regarded the university diaz a signature achievement and alan god interested as you see a book on the subject seeing correspondence with the efforts to fund the new school it tend to deal with various ways the American Revolution impa
Minute. I am the interim director at Baylor University press. We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco, texas. At baylor press, were very focused editorially. Almost all of the 40 books that we publish each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fort for our list, and were proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you Melissa Rogers needs no introduction at all. Shes served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and a b. A. From Baylor University, and she now serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University withs school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate both from Wake Forest University and the John Leland Center
Mark good morning. My name is mark krikorian, the executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we are doing this panel on the issue of the Foreign Student Program. The admission of foreign students and scholars is a federal Government Program like any other, farm subsidies or what have you, and it is almost exclusively discussed in positive terms, but in fact like any other Government Program, it has benefits but also costs. Pluses and minuses. The challenges that come from it, whether related to National Security or other issues, are never addressed. We want to have a panel that will try to introduce balance into this discussion of the Foreign Student Programs. Our first speaker is dan cadman, a center fellow, a veteran of ins and dhs, and he has a report on the table outside and also online on the National Security challenges that Foreign Student Program poses. Our second speaker is another fellow from the center, david north, who has been doing immigration policy lo
Way we wont get any calls from our children or grandchildren taking us out of the meeting. I want to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors of the reformed institute of metropolitan washington. Find the interim director of the institute. We are dedicated as an institute for the education of churches in the community in the reformed tradition and enhancing the theological discourse related to religious life and to the common good. I want to thank the session of the National Presbyterian church for providing the venue for this evenings event. National is one of ten sponsoring congregations of the Reform Institute to, and a fantastic place. You will find the names of the communities in the brochure and if you do not have one, please let us know and we will get one to you. The Reform Institute serves adults throughout the National Capital presbytery which is the judicature e. As we say in the church in this region and throughout the flight of metropolitan region. We will have time
I need everyones help in the room for the sake of the common good. Take this device and silence it, please. That way we wont get any nycalls from our children or grandchildren taking us out of the meeting. So i want to welcome you this evening on behalf of the board of directors of the reformed institute of metropolitan washington. My name is larry goldman, im interim director of the institute. We are dedicated as an institute to the education of techurches and the community in the reformed tradition and enhancing theological discourse related to religious life and to the common good. I want to thank the session of National Presbyterian church for providing the venue for this evenings event. National is one of 10 sponsoring congregations of the reforminstitute and a fantastic place. Youll find the names of our other sponsoring communities in the brochure that you have at your seat and if you do not have one, please let us know, were going to get one to you. The reformed institute serve