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In the big ten conference, including student death, admission policies and campus safety, this interview with Indiana University president Michael Mcrobbie is 45 minutes. This morning, the cspan bus is on the campus of Indiana University in bloomington. On it, we are joined by the president of Indiana University, Michael Mcrobbie. Thank you very joining us. Delighted to be here and welcome to Indiana University. Thank you for the invitation. Can we start, president , with your general thoughts before we talk about the details of your university, but your thoughts on the greatest challenges fac...

I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data that we collect and compile at the National Center for Education Statistics. Many of the things i am goi...

I was on a panel with denise and dewey corp nel where we talked about a school perspective. This is where the body of literature is the largest, i would like to say the strongest but there are still a lot of gaps in this particular area. Denise talked a lot about school climate. I was happy to hear that was picked up in the themes today and talked about legal issues and policies and zero tolerance and some of the reactive approaches that schools often take about video cameras and metal detectors. We dont have research to show they have a strong impact on reducing bullying. I spoke about meta a...

Just for your use, our staff had put together a summary of the evaluations that several of our speakers today had put into their presentations. So when you are looking for things that you can work on, we have put it all on one page for you. So take that as grist for your legislative mill or your policy mill. I want to thank you for your attention to a really under underappreciated set of issues that we were ai belieble to add. I want to thank our friends for allow us to put this together and helping us to recruit some of the folks you have heard. I want to thank our panel and particularly i wa...

And were also here to raise education and awareness, to let people know theres hope, and suicide is preventible. Theres so many facets to all that you do. I unfortunately lost my husband of 29 years years ago to the battle of depression. He was very well known in the d. C. Area. Showed very few signs. He had suffered from depression. It did run in his family. But at the same time, really seemed as if he was getting the help that he needed and we were providing him support. But unfortunately, it just wasnt enough, that the pain just got to be too much for him. So ive had to deal with that for t...