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we have about five students there to join together with columbia university and the city university hong kong. two degrees at the same time. >> we understand that in addition to being one of the leading universities in the asia-pacific region, the city university of hong kong has been very well-known for its engineering and science programs. and the last few years, we understand the city university has made a lot of changes in terms of the curriculum and offers students. in terms of recruitment of students from china and taiwan, city university has been very progressive in that area. what are some of the changes you have seen over the years in terms of students aptitude and their orientation toward studies and a possible career in engineering and related fields? >> i'm glad to say we are the first university in hong kong that recruits students from taiwan. there are a lot of hong kong students that study in taiwan, but before my arrival in 2008, there were essentially no students in hong kong from taiwan. so our goal is to have international co-op experience. we send the students to japa

on the university's website, the phone number the university lists has this area code. the bank you pay tuition fees to for the university is the local island bank --local bank. it might be incorporated in the caribbean, but it appears the company is operated in the u.k. >> on the website, the university says it does not award british qualifications. it has claims to be recognized by three different american institutions, but all of these are unofficial and unrecognized. it used to say it was accredited in norway, but the people there say it never happened. it is listed as bogus by the agency that values degrees by the italian government. it has been blacklisted in five u.s. states, including texas, where it is illegal to use any of its qualifications to get a job. looking online, the university does boast an impressive faculty list with some well-qualified supervisors. when we contacted five academics on the list, all said they had never worked there and never agreed for the names to be used. the american academic has spent much of his career researching the murky worl

bob faw reports on two very different institutions, ave maria university in florida and georgetown university in washington, d.c. >> this is coming out day at georgetown university in washington, d.c. at this jesuit institution, three dozen students celebrate homosexual and lesbian lifestyles even though the catholic church considers them immoral. thomas lloyd is president of georgetown's gay pride. >> by recognizing pride, georgetown has become more true to its jesuit values. commitments to social justice are some of the most important and historically grounded parts of catholic doctrine. >> but what is sanctioned at one catholic university is anathema at another -- florida's ave maria university. >> this is a university that's founded on biblical truth, on scripture, and on the sacramental richness of the catholic church. >> at ave maria, 90% of the 1,000-member student body are catholic. professors pledge to uphold catholic beliefs. there are worship sites in every dorm, and mass is held three times a day. its president, jim towey, who worked for the bush administration as director of its

but do you think that's the case with a lot of universities in taiwan. well has that being that no criticism can testify. i think so. compassion is the one to another thing i'm home and working on a good time recognize that opposite camp the defeat in the industry moved into what they need and what we produce ok so we went to work on. on the nearing of the calf which in time for the week are wide open to travel to and use it as well cos to that one reason why we have a few acuity in pp stevie tv stations interesting to see if they don't see the a word the top coming from and for my muse is not that it will have it that says we haven't what are enough to cradle put in the somme in the past few months. we invite the seal create a maniac and that the industry's me me me do it here even in pump so cool off on technology one can become too yummy. and let us know what what did he talk the town were presented to what we call for an intensive research who painted with a command as the match into a kind curse them for why a small scale a scholarship from the auto

we have about five students there to join together with columbia university and the city university hong kong. two same time. >> we understand that in addition to being one of the leading universities in the asia-pacific region, the city university of hong kong has been very well-known for its engineering and science programs. and the last few years, we understand the city university has made a lot of changes in terms of the curriculum and offers students. in terms of recruitment of students from china and taiwan, city university has been very progressive in that area. what are some of the changes you have seen over the years in terms of students aptitude and their orientation toward studies and a possible career in engineering and related fields? >> i'm glad to say we are the first university in hong kong that recruits students from taiwan. there are a lot of hong kong students that study in taiwan, but before my arrival in 2008, there were essentially no students in hong kong from taiwan. so our goal is to have international co-op experience. we send the students to japan and taiwan an

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands for a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed very it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i for the cutbacks all the way through the process they have been singing chants including people will not obey that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves they have done today can make a difference andrew farmer. thins. now look at some other world news in brief this are opposing football fans of clash following a match in brazil supporters from the

that leads to the founding of the university and some of the early funds for brown university. >> it is interesting that ruth simmons, the farrar president of brown, -- the former president of brown, wrist african-american president of any ivy league university, and i want to bring greg wilder back into this conversation, commissioned the first ivy league study of brown university's connection to slavery, professor wilder. >> i think this is a critical moment in american history. throughout the process of talking about the book, one thing that i constantly return to is her decision in 2003 to commission a study of brown's the slave trade. this happened for a number of reasons. there was a blowup at yale about their relationship to the slave trade, which became quite controversial. that also helped spark rumors about other institutions. and made public secret of brown's relationship became even more pronounced. when the first nonwhite president of an ivy league institution took office. it took tremendous courage to make that decision. the report in 2006 is an important extort -- extre

the california institute of technology is ranked first followed by harvard university and the university of oxford, both in second place. the university of tokyo advanced four places from last year to 23rd position worldwide. it ranked as the top university in asia for the third year. the national university of singapore became second in asia and 26th overall. seoul national university in south korea and peking yuft in 44th and 45th places respectfully. many other asian universities moved higher in the global ranktion. in the globarankings. >> for 70 years, donald king has been in japanese literature. since he first became a book in a new york book shop, king spent his life introducing japanese culture to the world. last month a museum and research center dedicated to his work opened in the prefecture. we have this report. the center in the city is morehan a meumfis life and works. it's also intendeds to a center for studying thfield of japane literature. the main hall holds an exhibit on nine individuals who played pivotal roles in his development and draws visitors through the trajecto

universities. for many finally there and a sense of a turning point. >> a andrea and annie started to pull people together all over the country and mobileized the movement. that is the confr contribution t they made. they took one case and made it a national issue. thethey helped educate countless women across the country and young men too about their rights. >> anand so think they take it e next step. they go to the department of education and filed a complaint saying my institution didn't take care of me. this is one of three full time title nine administrators hired since the federal com plaint cos lodged against the school. it's easier to talk about plagiarism. we have to talk about violence and sexual vie ledges. ledges -- violence. have we done that as best as we could. we need to do better and we need to do more. >> fee spitdeedespite the federe linings the right way -- guidelines the right way forward is not familiar to administrators of the university. we are stumbling because we are not g

universities. for many finally there and a sense of a turning point. >> a andrea and annie started to pull people together all over the country and mobile ized the movement. that is the confr contribution t they made. they took one case and made it a national issue. thethey helped educate countless women across the country and young men too about their rights. >> anand so think they take it e next step. they go to the department of education and filed a complaint saying my institution didn't take care of me. this is one of three full time title nine administrators hired since the federal com plaint complaint was lodged against the school. it's easier to talk about plagiarism. we have to talk about violence and sexual vie ledges. ledges -- violence. have we done that as best as we could. we need to do better and we need to do more. >> fee spitdeedespite the federe linings the right way -- guidelines the right way forward is not familiar to administrators of the university. we are stumbling because w

i write about a little known quote that he delivered at the same university bari line university in one thousand nine hundred nine where he talks about how he urged then prime minister yitzhak shamir and he was a he was in government to begin conducting mass massive campaign of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories because the world's attention was focused on tiananmen square and china and the protests there now netanyahu has the world's attention focused on iran and this is part of a. strategy to continue conducting human rights abuses and crimes in his own backyard away from the world's attention. and max as we know up until recently there was actually a eugenics program administering birth control forcibly to ethiopian jewish communities unbeknownst to them can you speak about the discrimination within israel against african jews and asylum seekers you mention something that is some disturbing story about the kind of abuses that are meted out to ethiopia and jews in this occurred in a transit camp run by the israeli foreign ministry where women were given depor provera shots w

that it was the university of go or. same with lawrence livermore lab so it's been essentially a privatized at this point. yes fully privatised. you know the lab has no way of processing radioactive liquid waste what's happening with this material. well it is being processed the facility is old it's been patched there is workarounds and when there is a problem there are storage tanks slowly build up and then look we says process goes. in a kind of a campaign or batch mode but it's not seismically sound and you know there are safety problems so and has to be something has to be done on a per more permanent basis. the question is what scale how grandiose. should the operating contractor which is supposedly a scientific organization be doing this nitty gritty waste management or whether somebody else should be brought in more competent right well what is a solution for this and go area incompetence i mean if there's been privatizing there just this utter lack of regulatory oversight on the facility what what next. will ther

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be a thing of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands firm a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed although it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i for the cutbacks all the way through the protests they have been singing chants including people will not pay and that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves like they have done today can make a difference and three farmer. things. is not more stories online for us as well twenty four seven a course today getting a lot of heads cultural heritag

curiosity what percentage of knowledge do we have we look out in the universe and we look at all of the forces that are driving what's going on we actually can quantify how much of that we know and it's about four percent plus dead life elsewhere you run the numbers and you realize it would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we were alone in the room all next on larry king now. we're in new york we're at the top of trump tower about bad view on a beautiful day in october and our special guest is neil de grasse tyson is the tyson is an extraordinary gentleman the astrophysicist a scientist with a million and a half followers on twitter the new york times best selling author hosts his own pod cast called star talk he's director of the famed hayden planetarium when i was eight years old he took me to a little boy's we came from school his new show is cosmos it debuts on fox in early two thousand and fourteen he's the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the nasa distinguished service medal as the highest award given by nasa to a non-government citizen before anything else i

underscoring this issue is a new legal case at the university of connecticut. there, there is no opportunity to create athletic opportunities for women, the uconn is a powerhouse. seven students, students and alumna, under title 9 said that the university discounted and ignored their reports of rape. it is the latest effort to hold higher ed responsible for the protection of students on campus, following pathways by two women of the university of north carolina. >> it happened specifically, it was within two minutes that i was -- my head was slammed into a bat room door and then again next to the toilet and you know, the assault proceeded. >> i remember like putting my hands on the sink and just like looking at myself in the mirror, and not even being able to fully comprehend what had just happened. and it was just like, i need to get out of here. raped. at a place most of us assume will be a haic haven of learnind of safety: college. annie was a freshman and andrea a sophomore, each tenanting unc at chapel hill. they said they were not given what they needed a

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be a thing of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands firm a deal struck with. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed although it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i for the cutbacks all the way through the process they have been singing chants including people will not obey and that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves they have done today can make a difference andrey farmer. another look at some other world news in brief opposing football fans of class following the match in brazil supporters from

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands firm a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed it isn't going to happen without a fight but it's a just demonstration has ended had sought the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i fear that cut backs all the way through the process i have been singing chance including people will know it by that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves i have done today can make a difference and. say things. i'm coming up next have are not as it was the hard questions to israel's deputy foreign minister. switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out th

curiosity what percentage of knowledge as we look out in the universe and we look at all of the forces that are driving what's going on we actually can quantify how much of that we know and it's about four percent plus he said life elsewhere you run the numbers and you realize it would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we were alone in the room all next on larry king now. we're in new york the top of trump tower i'm a bad view on a beautiful day in october and our special guest is neil de grasse tyson is the tyson is an extraordinary gentleman the astrophysicist a scientist with a million and a half followers on twitter the new york times best selling author hosts his own pod cast called star talk he's director of the famed hayden planetarium when i was eight years old he took me to have a little boys we came from school his new show is cosmos it debuts on fox in early two thousand and fourteen he's the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the nasa distinguished service medal as the highest award given by nasa to a non-government citizen before anything else i want i g

say i graduate from the university of michigan and i want the university to give preferences to my children and the children of other graduates. i can go and i can lobby the president, i can lobby the board of regents to make that change in policy. but if i'm in the minority and i want the university to give a preference on the basis of my race i can't do that. i have to change the michigan constitution before i can even approach them. so this lower appellate court said, was rigging the political process and that violates equal protection. >> what is the difference between preference for legacy alums and preferences on race? is it singularly about race? >> it is about race and the equal protection clause. in the arguments today the michigan slit or the general defending the voters amendment said basically the supreme court has never said you must use affirmative action or racial preferences. it invites the voters to some day get beyond the use of race. that's what michigan voters were trying to do, get beyond the race and adopt race knew trail means of achieving diversity. >> and justice ro

the university president. it involves a woman's right to choose. janine de la vega joining us live to explain what it is about. >> reporter: good morning, so far faculty members and alumni i have run into have been reluctant to talk about it. it involves the president sending out a letter to employees discussing whether or not it would provide medical coverage for certain abortions. now according to the mercury news the president of santa clara university, who is also a jesuit priest plans on doing that because it is in conflict with them, it triggers anger and frustration by them because they feel that it is a woman's issue yet it is made by men, earlier they determined they would not provide that, yesterday the governor signed a bill into law that gives women more access to choice when it comes to abortions. it allows nurse-practitioners midwives and physician assistants to perform abortions in the first trimester, the university president plans to discuss the issues in a series of forums in the coming weeks

you can't build great universities when you sue universities as he did by suing the university of virginia costing them-year-old 600,000. >> time. do you want to respond to that? >> sure. >> your thoughts on semiprivate are more independently -- financially independent state universities? >> i'm sorry, i'm not understanding your question. >> if you could clarify your view on making virginia's university semiprivate or more financially independent. >> i understand. i don't support that, well, not private. we, of course, want to see better financial support, and from the state government, that comes with a growing economy and where that money comes from. you know, they use the word "efficiency," and know how it works before you make it more first time. i'm the only candidate for governor who doesn't need on-the-job training if you elect me as governor. i've been a state senator, read the bills that came to me in my committee, done homework as attorney general. i already know how virginia government works. the beginning of this year when my opponent was asked about who is in the cab nebt, he

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands for a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed though it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people for the cutbacks all the way through the protests they have been singing chants including people will not obey that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression they have done today can make a difference andrew farmer far. and now a look at some other world news in brief a silly says it will triple that sea and air patrols in the mediterranean after more than three hundred e

greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands for a deal she. truck with the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed isn't going to happen without a fight this latest demonstration has ended had sought the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i fear that cut backs all the way through the process they have been singing chance including people will know it by that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expressing themselves they have done today can make a difference and. athens. real nice it's coming to nine twenty five in the morning here this monday morning in mosco coming up from the break we'll look at the concept of u.s. excepti

universities -- harvard, yale, princeton, brown, williams, the university of north carolina to name just a few -- are drenched in sweat, and sometimes the blood, as africans brought here as slaves. the book is called, "ebony & ivy: race, slavery and the troubled history of america's universities." m.i.t. american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759,

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