Interim President Workman, President Designee Mialas, Trustees Marsha Morris, Arlene Violet, and Doris De Los Santos, Vice President Scurry, Dean Bianco, members of the faculty, staff, family, friends, and most importantly, all of you. The 2019 honorees and graduates, good morning and welcome to Roger Williams University, University College. We are live streaming for our distance learning students as part of our mission at University College. We try to serve as many populations as we can, so we do have people streaming into the ceremony, many of them being military. Today we are here to recognize and celebrate your academic accomplishments. Being that it's May the 4th, I've been asked not to reference Star Wars in any way, or to quote Yoda, in big trouble you will be, so I won't, and that doesn't count. In preparing for the ceremony, I could not help but reflect on the value of these milestones. Some people say we're born with potential. I think we're born with capacity. Throughout our lives, we choose the things that will fill this capacity and become our potential. We have capacity to work, to learn, to create, to love, and to do so many other things. As we grow physically, mentally, and emotionally, so does our capacity, and along with it, our potential. But what value is potential if it's not actualized? While we are here to celebrate these personal milestones you have achieved, I challenge you to convert the acquired potential into action. Exhale your capacity and share it with the world. Continue to set goals for yourself, and inspire others to do the same. It is not our potential that makes our lives better. It is the energy we create when we expend it, this potential that moves us forward. I would now like to introduce Vice President of University College, Jamie Scari. Good morning. How are you all? Good. So I too want to say welcome to our trustees, to Interim President Workman, to President Designee Mialis, to our faculty, staff, parents, family members, and your supporters, as well as a very big welcome to you, to our graduates, to our art and society inductees, and to our award winners. Truth be told, today is one of my favorite days on campus. And I have two of those, right? So one of my favorite days is the first night of classes. And it's my favorite because new students all share the same sort of look, right? On the first night of class, it doesn't matter if you're a high school student who's taking classes here in our dual enrollment program, or students who have decided to start their degree, or to return after a long hiatus, or if you're a military student who's looking to gain skills as you advance in your career, or a veteran student who's looking to gain new skills and knowledge as they start a new portion of their life. In each of you, in each of those faces, you see excitement. You see hope. You see a little bit of nervousness and a whole lot of courage, right? The courage to begin something new or to finish something that was started a long time ago. And most importantly, what I see in your faces is the courage to go after something you thought may not be possible. And today, right, today is a wonderful day because that nervousness, right, that apprehension about what am I getting ready to do, all of a sudden turns to what? Turns to excitement, right? Turns to a whole lot of relief and a whole bunch of happiness. So there's no nervousness today. Today marks the day that you've achieved what you set out to do when you enrolled or the day that you're honored for your accomplishment. Today is the culmination of your individual hard work, your dedication, as well as everyone coming together in partnership for each other's success. As a first generation college student, as a single mom, right, who worked full time and went part time to earn her graduate degree, I know what you've accomplished is to be celebrated and honored. I know you are more a full time student than your traditional counterparts.  I also know the balancing out that's required to not drop a ball. I know what it feels like to say, God, please don't let my kids be sick the next day or gosh, please let my faculty member understand that I'm being pulled in eight million directions. Our high school students face family, school, work, sports, activity, and all their community responsibilities that's required to earn their certificates in community development. Our moms and dad face work, kids, family, and a slew of outside responsibilities. Our deploys students face filling their command assignments as well as being away from their families and their homes. No matter what, each of you had stunning moments of grace, right, that semester where you're like, God, did I do this so well, I'm brilliant. This is just absolutely beautiful, right? And then, as I know also well, you had that semester, right, where you did what, where you basically struggled to get across the finish line. You dug deeper than you knew you could, right? It felt like a flop across that finish line. But it's in those semesters that family, work, community, and other commitments collided and stress was very difficult. And whether it was a brilliant finish or a slow hard crawl across that line, you did it, right? And you did it amazingly well. And I could not be more honored to be here with you today to celebrate. During this time of celebration, I would be remiss if and I not thank you. I know you have a choice, right? You have a choice of where you enroll.  So thank you for that. Though before moving to our next speaker, our interim president, I wanna ask one thing of you. Could you please take a moment to look around? Look at your colleagues. Look at this multi-generation, multicultural student body and audience.  You did so in ways that supported each other. And when you leave here and you move on to your next journey, please remember what is possible when you do what can feel like the impossible and what happens when people come together from all different backgrounds and experiences to learn, grow, and make a difference. Anything and anything becomes attainable. And in today's world, we all need the good that comes from coming together. The stakes are high right now, right? We can argue about what those stakes are, but they are high. So please continue to make an impact in your current or chosen field. Go out and do good in the world.  It's really wonderful.  Tracy Pratt, I think you all know, basically said to me, can I come as Darth Vader? And I was like, Darth Vader, why are you coming as Darth Vader? No. She's like, may the fourth be with you. I'm like, what are you talking about? So it began as a big joke in the office about how out of touch I am. So the deal was, she gets to wear a Darth Vader outfit. Many people get to bring lifesavers. As long as I say, may the fourth be with you. So now what I would like to do is welcome our interim president to the stage so that he can say a few remarks. Thank you. Thank you, Jamie. And I'll join our earlier speakers in honoring our trustees and President Designate Mialis and our faculty and staff here. But mostly I'd like to also welcome the family and friends of the people who are receiving, or they're graduating or receiving certificates today because you know how important it is for you that your help was to get students across the finish line. I know that sometimes time had to be taken away from you. It really does take a village. It takes a community to help people to achieve as the students here have achieved. So thank you. Let's have a round of applause for the family. Now, it's great to see how many different kinds of students we have here. We have high school students from the MAJESAC working in their community development certificates. We have both traditional age and adult students working in their associate's degrees. We have people from the workforce who are getting credentials to improve their prospects. We have active duty military who many of whom are streaming in from places around the world. That's a diversity of learners. And it's very, very telling because that diversity of learners is what University College is all about. University College is designed to teach students in virtually every phase of their life. It's designed for students who have not necessarily had opportunities in more traditional forms of education to achieve. And that's very intentional. At Roger Williams, our core purpose, which we've embraced as a campus is to build the university the world needs now. You need to rethink the university in a way that works for students. We'll think about that a little bit. We have a university model that does educate lots and lots and lots of students, primarily traditional age students but increasingly students in other times and walks of life.  Sometimes they're visible barriers of cost. Sometimes they're invisible barriers. They're the very structure of the forms of education. Sometimes they're the barriers just of bureaucratic rules. And what I think is very, very impressive about UC and why I think it's really at the cutting edge of higher education is the vision of Vice President Scurri and Dean Bianco of creating an institution where those barriers disappear, smoothing the pathway rather than putting up further barriers in front of students. Now, Mary Beth, my wife and I were fortunate to host dinners for students from across the university this year and we did a couple of dinners for students here. I see folks in the audience who were at those dinners. And the stories of the students from University College told me were stories of again and again facing those kinds of barriers. They had been knocked out of earlier programs. Their programs hadn't worked for them and many of them felt bad about that, that it was their fault. It wasn't their fault. It was the system of education's fault. And the vision for University College is to overcome that. The vision for Roger Williams University is to overcome that. So we don't have to have a generation whose talents are wasted. Now, we've done a lot, we think, to make the university better and stronger and to make it possible for students to get through. But looking at students and hearing their stories, I know what it cost you. I know how hard you have worked. I know the challenges that you have faced. As Vice President Scurri said, it's more than a full-time job going to college and having a family and working as many as you have. That's incredible. You have shown tremendous grit as a kind of higher education jargon term that has gotten you to this place, that has made it possible for you to be here and to receive the degrees and credentials that you have. So, yes, we've done our bit and we've helped a bit, but this is really on you. This is what you have achieved today. Now, it's traditional to graduation address to charge students going into the future. I think given how much you've brought to this, that's a little bit presumptuous, but you don't need to be charged. You're charged up already. But I want to actually reflect a little bit on higher education and what it is and how it's really very different from a lot of other services and commodities that we buy. Higher education is not just a service you pay for and then you're done with, like going to a doctor or a dentist or a lawyer. When you come to a higher education institution, you become part of a community. And they're part of that community that is resting in many ways on the labor and the funds and the energy of not just the staff and the faculty, but the students who have come before you.  And if I have a charge for you, it's to embrace that role, embrace the role of an alumni. And there's all sorts of ways that you can do that and some of them are financial contributions, but that is in fact the least important, I think. The most important is becoming a mentor to students, helping us to understand how we can do our program better. Helping students that you see or prospective students that you see in the community, helping them to understand that they can move forward, that like you, they can achieve. In fact, doing all of those things that a community does to help the individuals in that community and to help the group as a whole. And so I don't have a charge for you today, but I have more of a welcome, a welcome to the Roger Williams University community. You're always part of us, you're always part of our family, and we hope to see you in the future. Thank you very much, have a great day. Thank you, President Workman. I would now like to introduce Assistant Professor Katrina Norvell, who will present the 2019 Thomas J. Carroll Outstanding Teacher Award. Thank you, Matt. I just want to take a moment to look out on all of you. And I want to ask you to take a look to your right and to your left. Look at that beautiful person sitting next to you and just take in the energy that you all bring today. We don't have sunshine outside, but we're going to create our own energy and sunshine in this room today. Okay, so just do that now. It gives me great pleasure to award today the Teacher of the Year Award for University College to Ray Nareks. And it doesn't surprise me that he's sitting in the very back of the room. Because I'm going to say some things about Ray, but I just want to start out by saying that this is a person who practices cultural humility in his professional life and his personal life. And I know that that is passed on to all of the students and all of us that he touches. So Ray, you don't have to sit in the back of the room. You can actually move up a little bit if you'd like to. Professor Ray Nareks is your textbook definition of what we at University College like to refer to as a pracademic. A pracademic is someone who seamlessly connects the real world with the classroom to provide the most profound learning environment and experiences for our students. Whether he's working with a student one-on-one in an independent study course or with a full classroom, Ray has a way of making every student feel like he's providing personalized teaching. Now, just let me stop for a minute and say, these are not my words. These are not Ty, who is the program director for community development. These are not his words. These are the words of the students who have nominated Ray for this honor. And many other students and staff who have had the wonderful experience of working with Ray over the past few years. So the students say he's that thoughtful of an individual learner while also ensuring and encouraging inclusiveness in class discussions and assignments. With Ray, you can always be sure he is incorporating actual cases of community development models of success or examples of critical social challenges. He has his finger on the pulse of the field of community development, which in turn ensures our students are getting the most relevant and industry-led content in his courses. As great as all of that sounds, what truly makes Ray special is his heart. He teaches for the love of teaching, for the love of seeing students excited about their communities and empowered to create change. And whether a student is enrolled or not, Ray remains a resource and a support system long after they've left this building. Whether you are connected to Ray, you have a connection for life and we are grateful to be connected to him. Congratulations now to two-time winner, Professor Ray Nerick. Julie, take a smile. Yeah. Thank you. I'll have to give you a little more. No, you can give some if you want. Thank you. Congratulations and thank you for your continued dedication to our students. I would now like to ask Dean Gina Bianco and Paralegal Study Coordinator Tracy Pratt to the podium to present the Lambda Epsilon Chai Honor Society inductees. As I mentioned earlier, we do service the military, specifically the Navy when it comes to this program. So some of the names that we're going to read are actually people who are live streaming and joining us from a distance. Thank you for your service. Thank you and welcome from myself. I'm Tracy Pratt and Dean Bianco. I am here to announce the inductees to Lambda Epsilon Chai Honor Society or LACS for short. This Honor Society recognizes the achievements of paralegal students who have or are conferring a bachelor's degree or a certificate, who demonstrate superior academic performance, which is evidenced by an overall grade point average of at least a 3.25 GPA and an average in their specific paralegal core classes of 3.5 or higher. To make membership in LACS a true and meaningful academic honor to Roger Williams University and recognizable indication of superior academic achievement to the members of the legal profession. When I call your name, please step forward and receive your certificate and pin. Lydia Bisbee, Caitlyn Collins, believe it or not here, with us via live stream is Ernestine Isso, Mara Henderson King, Benjamin Holmes, who's also with us via live stream as well as Alicia House, Ali Huerta's via live stream, Sonia Mills, Jennifer Pine, Joseph Pine. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is the husband and wife, so we'll be... Our next two candidates also via live stream, Angelica Rubio and Hannah Simpson. Andrea Sousa and lastly via live stream. Thank you for your service, all of our military personnel that are viewing via live stream is Linnea Walters. Thank you. Congratulations to all the inductees. Please welcome Dr. Palermo, an assistant director, Pereira, who will present the Alpha Lambda, excuse me, Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society inductees. Good morning, almost afternoon. Welcome. The Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society has many members for this particular graduation ceremony.  Please do. Caitlyn Collins, live stream. Ernestine Isso, live stream. Jeremy Fegu, vague. Tori Franceschi, live stream. David Anthony Gallaghan, live stream. Karen Garcia, Mara Henderson King, Benjamin Holmes, live stream. Alicia House, live stream. Deborah Izzy, Kenneth Latterno, live stream. Johanna Macbeth, Jeremy McCoy, live stream. Makita Melvin, live stream. Janine Murphy, Mary O'Brien, live stream. Frank Parenti, live stream. Shannon Pazillo, live stream. Christopher Ruiz, live stream. Allison Raine, Andrea Sousa. Dana Sousa, live stream. And Ann TV, live stream. So you're actually going to be inducted now sometimes in a minute. We got the paddles ready for the induction ceremony. So on behalf of Alpha Sigma Lambda, I welcome you as candidates for membership.  Before you are given an opportunity to take the Pledge of Membership, it is befitting that the qualities expected of you as participants in our society, also its aims and ideals be explained to you. And so the Greek letters Alpha Sigma Lambda, which form the name of our society, have special meaning to us. Alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet. Therefore, it stands for first. The letter Sigma corresponds to the letter S and is symbolic of scholarship. Lambda corresponds to the letter L and denotes leadership. Thus, Alpha Sigma Lambda forms the framework for our model, which is first in scholarship and leadership. Qualifications for membership included, matriculating in a bachelor's or certificate program conferred in August 2018, December 2018, or will be conferring this May in a couple weeks. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.2. Students must have conferred or will confer in the top 20% of their class based on the previously stated three confirmants. And students inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda historically have a GPA of 3.8 or higher. Okay, so the big moment. Will the candidates please repeat after me. I promise to uphold the ideals and further the aims I promise to uphold the ideals and further the aims of Alpha Sigma Lambda. Alpha Sigma Lambda. Believing that by doing so. Believing that by doing so. I shall increase my value to my college and to my community. I shall increase my value to my college and my community. I welcome you as a member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda and I will call your names to receive your certificates. You may put your cords on. Caitlyn Collins is distance. Ernestine is distance. Jeremy, Tori. It looks totally different after you've been inducted. You have to prepare, contrast, and picture. It's totally different. Corinne. Corinne. Deborah Izzy. Jeannie. You have a lot of mailing to do. And that's everyone. Does everyone have one? Yes. Congratulations to all the inductees. I would now like to introduce Associate Professor Kelly Donnell. She will now present the President's Core Values Medallion Awardee. Good morning. It's my great honor to announce the recipient of the President's Core Value Medallion. The Core Value Medallion was established in 2007 to recognize the graduating student who best exemplifies the core values of the institution. The student awarded this honor has truly embraced the university's core values in meaningful ways. The university core values include transformation, engagement, experiential learning, inclusivity, and innovation. This year I'm delighted to announce that Allison Rain is the recipient of the university college President's Core Value Medallion. Please join me in congratulating Allison. Oh my goodness. I'm speechless. I don't often become speechless. Oh golly. So good morning everybody. What an honor to be here today. I think we're all just brilliant, all of us. I was going to talk today about values, about our core values, and also the values of Roger Williams University and all that they represent. And then Joe Biden mentioned core values in his speech to launch his presidential campaign. And I thought, I can't do that now. I don't want to plagiarize his speech. So I went back along and listened to it again. And I thought, oh, you know, actually I won't be doing that. So values it is. So I'm going to talk about values. So my personal core values include honesty, integrity, kindness, and respect. The Roger Williams core values include transformation, engagement, experience, inclusion, and innovation. For us to be able to uphold these values, we need to be able to pull from our experiences and values. Yet we are not necessarily aware that is what we are doing until we look back and see what we've achieved. For me, transformation means that after 28 years I went back to school to re-educate. My brain was like glue. I was good at math. But oh boy, math after 28 years was not fun. It was a struggle. But I did it through determination and I managed to win that first A. To make that transformation, we need to be engaged. This means being involved, invested in every facet of the work that we do, whether that work is based on a textbook or through integration within the communities so that we can gain experience from which to step forward and gain yet more experience. As adult learners, we all have a wealth of experience that we have earned through life. These life experiences allowed me to draw parallels between what I had done and where I wanted to go. But importantly, Roger Williams University allowed me to harness my experience in ways that I never thought possible so that I could realize my dream and bring about new experiences. To give me a glimpse of how we can combine our knowledge and experience and apply it to promote new ideas so that we can better understand the needs of the communities that we serve. These experiences promote inclusion. Roger Williams University invited me to work on a research collaborative that allowed me to harness my experiences and engage with community members and university staff that gave me a better understanding of what is needed to be innovative. To be mindful and creative as we work to harness all the elements of past and present to help build a positive future within our community. This all said, while values are vitally important, the one thing that all this points to is investment. As we invest in ourselves through education and community engagement, our professors have all invested in us, the students, so that we have the tools with which to build a solid foundation that will become the cornerstone of our successes as we move forward in our careers. For this, I will always be thankful because I never thought at the age I am I would be blessed enough to be able to take what I have learned and go from a stay-at-home mom to somebody who is now working in a community helping others and importantly being paid appropriately for what I do, which is rather nice. And the best part, I love what I do. And I know that I bring positivity into the lives of others. So on behalf of all graduating students today, to all professors and staff of Roger Williams University, especially Ty, for his guidance and encouragement along the way, thank you. We, the students, could not have done it without you guys. So thank you. I think you have yet another photograph. Oh. Thank you. Congratulations. I would now like to introduce Assistant Professor Dennis Rubello to present the University College Scholarship Recipients. Good morning and almost good afternoon. And thinking about these scholarship recipients struck me in reading and rereading their essays after the awards had been internally announced that much like you, everybody has a story. And much like you, the story is an inside job driven from within you to the outside world. These recipients are much like you, living that path, understanding their own self-authorship. Actually, there were three elements to each one of these applicants. Self-authorship was clear.  They stopped, they took an operational pause and they dug in. Self-authorship. The second is they each embodied and still embody, I hope, right? A deep curiosity and eagerness to learn. And thirdly, each one of them absolutely had an impact on my decision to wear this bow tie today. You see, the bow tie says Meliora. Meliora has Latin roots and it means to ever better oneself. So I'd like you to think of self-authorship. I'd like you to think of curiosity. And I'd like you to think of ever bettering as you move forward as well. Our first recipient, make sure it's in order, of course, is Nicole Bonatati. As I congratulate Nicole, I'm going to lift a part of her story. Striking to Nicole's narrative is the fact that in a blizzard in 1978, she witnessed her mother, her mother's grit and determination to hold two jobs. And it's that embodied work ethic that I think influenced her to never give up to take hold of her pen and to drive forward. And she noted, and this is your self-authorship and your signature on your narrative, that hard work is not enough.  Our second recipient, I'm gonna call up and I'm gonna do a similar thing here for, okay. So Matthew Larson, could you join us please? We should give you this first. Thank you. Well earned. Striking in Matthew's narrative was that he saw in himself an opportunity to get better over time. It's something to be said for a late bloomer, right? That you got stronger in your sense of self-worth going from CCRI to RIC, and then getting into a 61st ranked law school. I'm sorry to say you won't be joining us here, but University of Arkansas is where you're able to get in. And I think that's tremendous. So we applaud that. But he took an operational pause and he said, part of his self-authorship, his curiosity, his ever better theme was this. He said, I'm going to stabilize myself and get stronger before I move into that space of law school. What I'm going to do is I'm gonna get post-bachelor certificate in paralegal studies. And so hats off for your decisions. Our third recipient is Charles Van Hoffer. Charles, join us up here today. I also have the pleasure of having Charles in a psychology class. So this is particularly awesome. Congratulations. Can I just say any of those terms in the last paper? This does not constitute as a replacement for your final assessment, so. As I rethought Charles's narrative and how it turned, I turned to two of his professors who, who quoted, I'm going to quote here, one Douglas White who said, Dr. White said, you know, he earned the highest grades in the class for five classes. I want you to know that's not a common occurrence in my class. So I thought, oh, that's pretty good stuff there, right? Ever better. And Dr. Hopper said that he is an unquenchable thirst for grave details. And that's that curiosity and eagerness. And I can tell you that he said this in his last paper, which wasn't your last paper, by the way, Charles, that the locus of control for ever bettering himself, I'm going to put in parentheses, for his educational journey has always been there, the inner drive. And that is that self-authorship that we talked about at the beginning.  You still have to do the final paper, but congratulations, Charles. Congratulations to all the scholarship recipients. I would now like to ask Vice President Scari and Director Palermo to once again return to the podium. They're going to be awarding the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex certificates. So before we award the certificates, I just want to say a few words about this program and then turn it over to Ty. And I also want to acknowledge Shannon Rubello, who's standing in the back, who I wish would rise. And before I get in, I'll give her a round of applause. She's one of the most amazing teachers in the province, I actually would say in the state. We started this program in 2013. I think Shannon will remember sitting at 150 Washington Street with a number of teachers from your school, myself, and Eric Jacobs, who was the then Program Director for Community Development, trying to figure out a way to create the certificate program that would start with students taking a course in the high school taught by the teacher. Shannon was one of those teachers. The second course was actually taught here and then they would integrate into our regular courses. We had a student who actually integrated with you. These young people have done the most amazing projects and made the biggest impact in their own communities. And I think to date, we've had nearly 100 students who have been involved in some capacity in this program. We've had more than, I think, 30 or 40 earned certificate programs. And I just want to say thank you to Shannon for all the work that you've done to make this program happen. And most importantly, thank you to our JSEC students. They are incredible. They are making impacts and just really turning the dial on what it means to be a stakeholder in your community, what it means to be a leader. And you don't have to be welcome to the table or asked to the table to make a difference. You can actually pull that chair up yourself and start to do that. And you've done that each and every day and I thank you for that. So there isn't much to say after that. It's very true. Shannon's amazing. Shout out to Velay Orr, the principal at JSEC and our amazing young people, some of which couldn't be here today because of competing interests as many of our other students couldn't be. It doesn't matter whether they're in high school or they're overseas serving the military. Our students are pulled in a million directions. So to be here today is profound. And for these young people, I just want to draw a parallel. We have overseas military right now who are active duty in war zones. And our young Providence youth in particular lost one of their own the first week of school, okay? And so trauma hits us at all various levels. And I can't tip the hat enough to someone like Shannon because as a teacher in a classroom in an urban school, urban schools are typically the only place where it's safe, where they get meals, where they get love, where they can neurologically de-stress and put their guards down to learn because it's not about a capacity to learn. It's about over capacity of everything else in life. And so our young people have taken five college courses, started non-profits, stuff backpacks to feed their peers. And right now we're doing research projects on behavioral differences in black men based on their educational attainment. So these aren't slouches by any means. We didn't dumb down content for them. They rose to the challenge and some of them didn't make it, right? Some of them can't make it. And that's life. And so I just want to reiterate and emphasize the important of these young people here and if there's anything else for the adults in the rooms that the future is very bright. So let's call them up one by one and then we'll acknowledge them together. First up, Kyra Benson-McCarty. Yes, you do. This is like one of the things to hope. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Joshua Gonzalez. Clara Alaba. Nicole Perez Torres. And Tyrell Stevens. Congratulations to our students from Manita Sanchez. Congratulations guys, that's really an excellent achievement. Vice President Skari and Dean Bianca will now present the 2019 Associate Degree and Certificate of Recipients. Thank you, Matthew. This is the moment that you've all been waiting for. For many of you, I have rode this journey with you as your advisor, as a program director and now as a dean. So I am uniquely privileged and honored to confer those degrees to those certificate and associate degree students. I'd also like to recognize that I will be joining all of those who are in the audience who received honors at your conferral for your bachelor's degree that will happen on the Bristol campus. So thank you. Again, there are a number of students who are joining us via live stream and I would like to honor and their intentions as well. So we will honor them in the program and announce their names. So the first person is John Marion Asabu. Stanley Olston. Mary Emerson. Tanya Ashley. Lindsay Atkinson. Kevin Bailey. Wyatt Benavides. Violet Benitez. James Berkholz. Nicole Benatotti. Alana Brody. Sydney Carson. Marissa Carter. Aaron Katelyn. Dawn Chase. Christine Cook. April Copeland. Julia Crotty. Steven Dees. Gabriela Diaz. Crystal Drew. Ashley Dwyer. Leslie Fielder. Makayla French. Lanny Fry Jones. Olivia Fulda. Nancy Gardner-Matello. Joseph Jermeia. Faith Jerdry Jackson. Jalea Hare. Mara Henderson King. LaCrea Henderson. Deondra Johnson. Travis Johnson. Jennifer Jonah St. Tatiana Cumlatoy. Timothy Klein. Katherine Knifer. Megan Kupnala. Megan Krukoa. Kim Lange. Dylan Malloy. Matthew Martin. Nathan Martin. Crystal Mathrue. Keith Medeus. Ricardo Mello. One second, she wanted to take a photo. You can come back. You were trying. I saw you. We can pause. This is a re-enactment. Yes. Oh, my God. So much. Anytime. Terrell Mitchell. Ana Paula Montero. Janine Murphy. B. O'Brien. Laura Olivia. Azzaro. Timothy Parote. Andre Patterson. Pita Pereira. Jennifer Pine. Joseph Pine. Panita. Shannon Pasillo. Quincy Quinn. Ivette Queenen. Derevan Rivera. Douglas Roper. Vernon Sanders. Madeline Shalut. Derek Shaver. Ryan Sheenan. Dionisha Simmons. Andrea Souza. Lynn Sylvia. Justin Tisdale. Megan Turcott. Mary Paula Valdes. And Khalil Wilkins-Kane. And that is our graduating class. Congratulations, class of 2019. Now reflecting back on some of President Workman's comments, I'd like to introduce Chip Craig on behalf of the Roger Williams University Alumni Association. Thank you, Matt. Congratulations, everyone. And I can still say good morning. Doesn't feel like morning still. As Matt said, I'm Chip Craig. I'm the president of the University Alumni Association. And as an alumnus myself from the class of 1994, Roger Williams taught me to dream big and gave me the tools and confidence to fulfill those dreams. Today is an extraordinary milestone in your life. You may see this as a chapter closing, but really it's the beginning of an incredible journey that started when you began your studies here. It's a wonderful world out there waiting for you to do more great things. And so this is a transition time for you. It's not an end. Really to come off of what Interim Workman said, the Alumni Association is one that has a lot of meaningful aspects to the society and to your continued progress as you continue on through your life. A way to realize your dreams is to continue to build bridges through networking. You've met a number of colleagues here, many peers, many professors, faculty, and staff. And as you continue your journey, you're going to reflect on a lot of those meaningful relationships that you made here. And you'll continue to make further connections. So don't just cut everyone off from here and begin your journey without remembering and staying in continuation and connection to those in the past. Staying in touch with all of those folks that you met here at this wonderful place, Roger Williams, is something that will continue with you. So on behalf of the Alumni Association and its board members, I want to congratulate you officially and welcome all of you as newly members, as new members, of a very proud community of nearly 32,000 alumni worldwide. Your connection to this university is perpetual. And even after today, you can be an active part of the Alumni Association. And doing so will keep you connected to Roger Williams and engage you in ways that are meaningful to you. It doesn't have to just be monetary. We know that there's a lot of cost associated with education. But your time, talent, and skill will help others in the future. So as you carry on to the next stage in your life, take these words of wisdom with you down the path. And that is continue to dream big and make sure you keep building those bridges. Thank you and congratulations. Thank you. My sincerest congratulations to each and every one of you. I know that that was not always easy and the award scholarship certificates and diplomas represent sacrifices as much as accomplishment. Keep the fire burning. Do not hoard your potential. Share it. Inspire others and forge a path for others to follow. Thank you to all the family members and friends for joining in the celebration. Your support and encouragement makes achievements like these possible. I would now like, if there's no objections, to invite everybody for refreshments out in the cafe. Photo opportunities or whatever. And that concludes us our morning. Thank you very much.


YouTube, what's up man? You guys have been showing me mad love through the ladders. That tournament, all those games I posted in the tournament were for the ladders, which is qualifying. Essentially, you play as many games as possible to see where you ranked up. I finished in the top 40 feeling good. This weekend is that tournament. So make sure you guys check in Saturday Sunday Live on the Twitch, set your notifications. That Twitch link is below. You can also watch me play every night on Twitch as well. YouTube and Twitch, we've been working together. We've been really farming, so I appreciate you guys. Let's take a look at the team. I haven't showed you guys my team and it hasn't changed pretty much all week. So here it goes right here. Boom. We got Joe Thomas, Alan Fannick, Jason Kelsey, Larry Allen, Jeff Saturday on the line. We got Threat Detector and Edge Protector on Joe Thomas for 2AP, free puller elite, free nasty streak, and 1AP secure protector on Jeff Saturday who plays right tackle. I'm not big on the out of position. I really don't care that much, but I think secure is the best pass blocking ability so I got it at tackle there. We got Darren Waller, tight end, the best tight end in the game. Must have card, probably should be your tight end. He gets that 1AP short and elite so he fries. We got Steve Smith. He's a free short and elite. He's fast, but he's short. So for some different defensive schemes, I like him, for others I don't. Use him, I use Calvin, Art Monk, Randy Moss as well. Still have Carmichael in case. I gotta chuck the ball, still have him on the bench. Should always be on your bench. We got Elway with the set feet lead, hot route master and fearless. He will be the quarterback until a quarterback comes out with that trio that's cheaper. So I think he's gonna be the quarterback well into springtime I think for me. But Marcus Allen's the running back. I have McCoy, I have a couple others on the bench. Defense, we run a lot of man coverage. It is a man coverage, meta boys either get with it or get better at beating it or embrace it. So we got Pat Pete, he's my favorite corner. So he might be a little bit outdated, but I still use him. And I'll tell you guys a million times is that the game is about abilities who gets them for cheap, who saves you cap on your abilities. That's why Patrick Peterson is a dog. Every single player on my field will have pick artists 100%. So that's a guarantee. You have to have that. And Pat Pete then gets medium knockout. So he can guard corner routes, post routes, deep slants, things like that. Night train lane has medium knockout, pick artists and deep knockout for deeper corner routes. Rod Woodson and Dion Sanders are my outside corners both with deep knockout and pick artists. In the slot, I rock Casey Hayward as we go over here. I rock Casey Hayward with the free pick artists and Mike Haynes. I need to make this tie law, but I've been a little cheap, don't tell anybody. So I might, I'll have tie law this weekend for the tournament for sure. D-Lime and Joey Bosa, Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, my two linebackers are Jeremy Chen and Steve Atwooder. I use obviously LT's the best. He has free pick artists will always catch those picks. Osa has always been a glitch and madden. So I've been running with him and then Reggie White, the minister of defense has that free El Toro. I don't think it does anything at all, but it's free. This is how I feel about the game right now. They're giving people free abilities. If you're free, you play. That's how I feel. I will try any ability if it's free and it doesn't cost to my AP salary cap, but this is a Super Bowl. I got to win a lot of Super Bowls. So I have some coins because you know it's big tournament weekend. That means they're gonna drop the best cards possible. We might see Sean Taylor, that boy right there. We might see him. So check out this Super Bowl. Let's see how I do with this team, boys. Super Bowl, one more, one more. Let's do it. I don't remember Virgil. I don't remember. I really don't. I remember playing him, but I really don't remember what happened. Yeah, so cute. Oh man. I don't know. I haven't really played all-pro at all this year, except when they make me. I think we played on Player's Lounge and I flooded them and then we played ranked and he won, I think. So it should be a good game. Good. I need some, I need good games.   Like I just slanced. Like, dude, there's so an open these slanced right now. All right, all right, all right, we gotta do something. Like there's no way that yellow zone is going down that far like that.  Like, I just, Man, I should have picked that off, bro. I was hoping I'd knock that in the air for a pick. Bro, like I honestly, his slancer is six yards open, is Ohio? No, there's nothing in Ohio. Maybe the pro football hall of fame, I've never been there, you know. God, man, God. How am I, like, dude, I got, I just like, I'm about to be over these corner routes. I really am. I'm about to be so over these corner routes. I did that so well in bunch. And now I'm just like lost. I'm gonna sleep on that, bro. Just gotta be knocked out.   My man coverage is just the worst.  Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, come on. Yeah, I know that was it. Man, he blocked everybody too. That's the amount we wanted with a one-on-one and I just fell asleep like, he didn't even have like anything other to do than that. That was it. That was the only thing he could have thrown was that. And I was just like, I was waiting for a slant and there was no slant.  He do a hitch in his corner and a streak.  I gotta stop throwing corner routes, man. I really do. Shit is killing me. I've done so many picks tonight on him corner routes.  Dog, it's no way we're dropping that with no ability. My dudes be so bad, cause? Dog, oh my God. I know one difference between me and my man.  I gotta start agon-ing this morning.  I gotta chuck the ball. I literally have to chuck the ball more. Nah, bro. Nah, bro, they're trolling me. They're trolling me. They just gotta be. No, no, no, no, no. No, it's just, it's just, this is just like, dude.  This is, this is just disgusting. I gotta, I gotta just chuck. I really just gotta chuck the ball, dude. Fourth down, he do it at the back of my man's face. The back of my man's face.  Just hold LB and just, you're just unstoppable, man. Holy, this is so nasty, man. Kelsey's cracked. Yeah, he's the only one that's good at the game. Kelsey, definitely, yeah, it's Kelsey.  It's playing right now, boys. If you guys wanna tune in, you know, good throw. Just thinking too much, boys. We're just thinking too much. See, like when I see this game, when I see the game that's going on, I tell myself, I'm gonna get an interception. I just feel that way. I feel like there's no reason for me to do different. I'm gonna get a pick. I feel that way. Am I wrong? I could be wrong, but I just feel like keep doing what you're doing. You're gonna get an interception.  God bless him.  Oh, that was so close to a touchdown. It's scary. It really was. We will get interceptions. It's inevitable. But it told me RB's the glitch.  I explained it, explained something to me, dude. Let's go. I told you, man. You're gonna keep chucking, chucking, chucking. Off a night train, dog. Tell her you, dog. Cause I see, I saw how he was playing. Like, we're gonna get picks.  Good night train. Dog, thank you. Like, bro, it's just, he's just rubbing into people. It's just rubber outs, bro. It's nasty, dude. Knock out. Oh my God. Are you kidding? What the? Oh, they switched, man. Dude, this is so nasty. They switched, man. Yep. Oh my God. This is disgusting, man. There it is. Pick, pick. Oh my God. Yo, it's just, dude, he gotta have a million receivers, dude. I don't really like, dude, it's just, let's go, man. Oh, let's go, monk. Oh my God. Like, W, I swear he's gonna cover that. He just has, like, dog, come on, man.   Thank you. Ah, that, you know what killed me right there? If I'm in the middle of the field, we can hit that. If I'm in the middle of the field, we hit that.    Like, come on, man. There's no way that that's like getting yards, man. Yeah, come here. Like, we were just picking. We're putting everybody on a slam, pressing a button. Dog, no huddle, come on.  He has him so bagged and just stops. Dude, I really thought that was a good swipe. I really thought it was a good swipe. I thought that was a good swipe I did. I tried, but I got a body and a little bit more, but the scores he has is just disgusting, man. It really is just disgusting, man.  Big time. Good run blocking, boys. Good work, boys. We're getting pushed back five yards. That's what we love to see. Moss might have been tutty. Moss might have been out of there. Elway just smoked that? Elway? I should have just called time off fast. I'm not kicking a field goal here. Like, no matter what, we're not kicking. This could be like nasty quarters or something, so I'm gonna actually, it could be a man too. I don't know, is what this guy. Dog, like, what the f*** happened, dude? Oh my God, man.  Good play call, but we just gotta hold that block just a little bit longer there and it would be a... Oh, they tried me. Oh! That's one where I don't know if I should, like, he might have knocked that out if he got close enough. Let's go. I mean, it's a good animation. I don't know if he could have knocked it out though. I'm glad he didn't do something random. He did something random on third down, like Blitz that everybody in cover two. He just played man covers there. 16 seconds left, boys.  I really do. Hey, look who ends it. The man, Pat Pete, GGs. Super Bowl Champions of the World. I don't get mad. I had no problem breathing. Do you think my anger affects my gameplay? Sometimes it does. GGs, GGs, GGs all around. Tough game. Tough game, but we fought. Stayed alive. Super Bowl Champions of the World. Marcus Allen, big game. I don't know what he did, but big game. Joe Thomas, big game. L-Way, there he is. L-Way. Here he goes. And this is L-Way. Look, there's me right there in the polo. That's me, Baldi Beard. Sean McCoy, dude, I don't think he got in a game. You see his jersey clear. Here's L-Way. Absolutely looks more like me than L-Way right there. I don't know. Kind of looks like Skim a little bit. I'll be honest, little Skimbo vibes. Definitely nothing like L-Way. Like when somebody's chucking the ball, you just gotta know, I'm eventually gonna pick. That's what happens. I'll eventually get a pick. I feel like I got up right here. I mean, I feel like I did all I could right here, boys. Like, I feel like that was a good swipe. I really do. And I thought I got to pick artists behind me. I ran to the football. You see it? He's gonna knock it up and Chen's gonna pick it, but he caught it.


Okay, you guys one of my very favorite videos ever is to watch a dupe videos and I love finding dupes for you guys It is so much fun for me to be able to find things that really can stand out And you can save your money and in lots of these things They're things that are so much better at the drugstore than they are out there on high-end or prestige or luxury And I am bringing those to you today. So if you are new to my channel, thank you so much for stopping by Please consider subscribing and becoming a part of our YouTube family Please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you do like dupe videos I would really appreciate that it does help generate my video more out there into YouTube land And so we're gonna get into high-end makeup that I replaced at the drugstore right now So my very first dupe is for the it cosmetics CC cream that we all love so much and the reason that this one is in the matte one I love the original formula. I think a little bit more than this, but I did get this and I'm using it up This one has an SPF of 40 the original one has an SPF of 50 and mine is in light Now light is a good shade for me in the summertime I do have to a little bit of color correct on this one because it is a little bit on too on the warm side But I love it. It's beautiful on the skin. I love how long it lasts and it has this poreless finish It's full coverage. I absolutely love this stuff But you guys this number seven product that they came out with not very long ago protect and perfect advanced all-in-one foundation Hydrating age-defying medium coverage with a sunscreen of SPF. This is not medium coverage I don't feel like it feels very lightweight, but for me It's a full coverage foundation and I wear mine in cool ivory just so you know this shade is perfect for me It is I don't have to color correct it at all. I don't have to lighten it darken it anything It's just absolutely perfect for my my natural skin when I'm not tanning I can warm it up in the summertime with a little bit of bronzer if I want to but this color is so Good for me and I love that they have the cool and warm tones instead of just one tone like the it cosmetics does This lays down spectacular on the skin. I can't even begin to tell you how beautiful it is on the skin But this is it's so much better in my opinion than the it cosmetics and I just think it's fantastic So this is one fluid ounce and this is 1.08 fluid ounces So really close in the amount you're getting not not a whole lot different. This one is a squeeze tube Just so you know and then the it cosmetics is a little pump tube on it You do get a pump on the end of there. So I do like the pump better, but the squeeze one works just as good for me Um, I actually feel like you almost get everything out when you're using a squeeze tube as compared to this even though I cut them open and I get every last drop of them But I really would recommend that if you've been wanting to try the it cosmetics, but you can't afford it Go for the number seven and I know that this is a little bit more pricey for a drugstore foundation But I'm telling you it is so so worth it So definitely for me was a hit as far as being a debt on due Now this one i'm excited about because during alta's 21 days of beauty. I got the naked reloaded palette I don't have one naked palette except for this one and I know you guys are going to think that is so weird But um, I really have been enjoying this I've been enjoying even though that it does have a lot of warm shades in here I've been enjoying this peach tone right here I really like the way that they blend out and I really like the lasting power on them But they're very creamy and I like the metallic colors in here They're not like over the top But they're very nice on the lids especially if you're somebody that can't wear You know a high metallic on your lid because of texture This is a nice palette and I really have been enjoying that one and making you know doing different very neutral looks But I'll tell you guys that when I got it. I was like Wait a second Didn't I just get that palette from Maybelline in the nudes of new york palette and look at it you guys Look at how close they are And so many of these colors are so close now I will say that this color right here, which is a high metallic There really isn't a dupe for it in here But this color that is right there, which is just a pretty color as far as being put on the lids It's so pretty um, and it can be built up to be close to that color So i'm not going to swatch this for time's sake But this is honestly if you've been thinking about you wanted this naked reloaded palette This replaced the number one palette their number one palette Um Not their number one palette their original naked palette This palette is so close Plus you do get a few extra colors in the Maybelline one this one has 12 and this one has 16 And I actually like that they gave you just a couple a little you know very cool tones over here I love this mauve for being a transition color So I really love these you guys I love the color scheme that they did in here All of them are different they do Compliment each other so well so you can dip into whichever one you want to in here and they're so pretty and so I like the Consistency of them. I like how buttery they are. I like the lasting power on them I just think that they did a really fantastic job with all of them So I would definitely recommend it to you. It does have a lot of pigmentation as you can see as I'm swatching it right there And for me, it was just yeah again hit it out of the park Love it so glad that I found that it was a dupe. I did my support recommendations for the dib sale And I showed you so many of the high-end products that I love and I'm like, you know what? I bet that I have dupes for every single one One of those products that I showed you was the clinic clinic cheek pops, which I love these you guys They're a little bit stiffer of a of a product They're you know along the lines of a blush that it has a little bit stiffer of a formula But I like them one because they last on your cheeks like crazy and the other is because I love the pigmentation in there It's just gorgeous and this one is called heather pop and it's just the perfect pinky color for spring for me And I can really you know wash that out and it just be a beautiful color I don't have to wear it as stark as it is there in the pan But as I was looking at them, I'm I'm going I don't have that many high-end blushes But boy, I got a lot of drugstore and I came across the one from flower beauty This is sweet pea and these are the flower pots blush from flower beauty And as I got to swatching them and I got to looking at them. I'm thinking Okay, that is pretty darn close now. The clinic is just a tiny bit brighter. I will say that But this one is really really close the texture is almost exactly the same And the reason that I like these flower pots from flower beauty so much is because They really have a great lasting power too. So I was just like, okay That is just too close for me not to show it to you guys So even though it does look a little bit different in the pot right here Those are so close when you got them on your cheeks There's no way you'd be able to tell but this hefty price tag as compared to the flower beauty one I just think you couldn't go wrong. So that's my next dupe And then during the 21 days of beauty, I also discovered from persona cosmetics their lip glosses Which I really like and I was really really surprised at how pretty these are and I think this one just says pink gloss Yes, this just says pink gloss from persona cosmetics Such pretty such a pretty color and the vibrancy of it is there And they aren't like completely opaque, but they give you a really Nice flush of color on your lips And I was going, you know what maybe my favorite color From the drugstore that I wear all the time is a dupe for that and maybe that's why I like it so much So here is tiramisu from nyx you guys I am in love with tiramisu I have been wearing it for years and years and years and I think that's why I was so drawn to that persona one Now the persona one does have just a little bit more coral in it But this texture and the sting power and the opaqueness and You know how they have that little bit of sheer breakthrough on them is exactly the same identical And the formula is identical to each other and I just thought There's no way if you got that on your lips that you'd be able to tell that there's any difference and even here on camera Unless you're right up here with me and you see that there is just like Maybe a hint darker on tiramisu than there is on the persona. Absolutely love that there is a dupe for those Those are beautiful beautiful lip glosses But these are five dollars. So I just felt like you couldn't really go wrong there Now another thing on my list during the sephora vib was this Highlighter and I love it. This is from becquette. This is their shimmering skin perfecter highlighters And this one is in prismatic amethyst and it's a beautiful color that shifts between It's kind of an icy color and it shifts between pink and it shifts between purple and it's absolutely beautiful It's just one of those colors that you get it on and it just Is so interesting with any blush or anything that you wear and I love wearing this across my lid It is so pretty with any pink look any purple look any mauve look that you're doing It's just so beautiful with it And so I wanted to show you the dupe and I know that I have put this in a dupe's video before But this bears repeating because this is the exact dupe for it even in texture And it's the essence pure nude space light And the reason that I am so impressed is because The texture of the becquette one is so different than the highlights that we get nowadays Where it's more like You get that strobing beaming. This is the very lit within look I know that it looks really strong right there on my hand But on the cheeks, it's not so stark that you can't look at it and go Okay, I can build that up or I can leave it really light And you guys know if you have the pure nude just the regular highlighter How nice that highlighter is and how soft it can be and you can get the same thing with this one If you like that kind of highlight But honestly I use this on my lid and I use it constantly because of how brightening and how beautiful it is And on the lid if you're a mature woman, it doesn't show up a bunch of texture either So dead on dupe. I I had to share it with you guys again because I love it so much All right. Next is from fenty beauty. I got these little glosses in a five piece tin During the holidays. I think that it's still available on sephora, but this is confetti I'm not sure if she's come out with the big one yet or not. What it is. It's kind of a milky creamy um, just a lip gloss that has like a touch of reflect in it without having too much Color in it and that's kind of what all those glosses are. They're just really kind of sheer and pretty But from milani, you can get the exact dupe and this one is let's see if I can read that without my glasses This is in moonlight. These two colors are really the same So if you can't shop at sephora or you can't really shop off of fenty beauty dot com You can go to walmart and you could pick up this milani one and they are exactly the same It's not like they aren't the same color anything I actually like the the smell of the milani one a little bit better and it is a plumping one And I like that little bit of cooling effect that it gives on your lips a little bit better too So I actually do like this one quite a bit better than the fenty gloss And then the last one i'm going to leave you with is one that I also got during the 21 days of beauty And it is from urban decay. I am a huge vice lipstick fiend I mean when they go on sale I usually pick up one or two because I just know that the formula is so good And I'm going to absolutely love it and this one right here is in native and native is a beautiful nude pink color It's just one of those ones when I put it on i'm like It feels so buttery on my lips and I love the pink tone in it even though it's almost on the neutral side of pink It's not super duper cool But it is pink. So if you're looking for a peachy one, this wouldn't be one would not be for you But I did find the dupe for it in Maybelline now Maybelline lipsticks are my absolute love at the drug store as far as any lipsticks go They always deliver they always give the same quality and they're very inexpensive and I love that So this one right here, which is the dupe for it This one is called born with it and I believe this one from Maybelline It might be a fairly new one to their line But look at how nice they are together and how exact they are as far as being their color I feel like their formulas are exactly the same too. You're getting a very quality product on both of them You're getting some really good lasting power You're getting creaminess if you have older lips that you might have lines in you're getting that creaminess that helps build That pout that you need if your lips are getting thinner. I just I love them. I love them both But to save the money is like yeah winter winter chicken dinner. I think so. So yeah, definitely So that is everything I would love from you guys. I would love to hear about dupes from you guys So if you have dupes that you know about that Aren't really widely known or maybe they're even widely known. I don't care But if you have dupes that you really are impressed by I would love to hear that in the comment section below Because I'm always looking for really good dupes and then I could go ahead and share it with everybody and I always love to learn from You guys So I hope that everybody is doing really well today. Thanks so much for spending a little bit of your day with me And I hope everybody is staying safe.  Bye guys


In the championship the Wolves rub against three seed Kenyan Wanomingo. In the 132 Long Prairies Mason Godi turns this great take down into a pin to score six points for the Wolves. Long Prairie up 16-3 early. Then in 145 Long Prairies Ted Stacey was down by one with 10 seconds to go but comes up with a big take down to win the match at the buzzer. Wolves up 22-9 Stacey fired up after that win and after the 195 Long Prairie could taste a championship Caleb Pesta gets the take down goes on to win the match 7-4 gives the Wolves an insurmountable lead Long Prairie Gregor Brauerville is your class a wrestling state champions with their 35-27 victory. Last year definitely helped us by the experience but for us to be able to actually do this dream come true. Long Prairie and Brauerville deserve this you know Long Prairie Gregor Brauerville deserve this so many good people in those communities and obviously is supporting us and so proud. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hello and welcome to the prototype for the new Australian Curriculum website. Let's jump straight in. First I'm going to select a subject, mathematics and a year level, Year 3. I click Submit and what we see is the Understand This Learning Area slide-out window. This gives us all the background information about the learning area. I'm going to pop that away for a minute. I can come back to it at any time by clicking on the Understand This Learning Area button at the top of the screen. And here's our new look learning area page. We can see that the achievement standard is now front and center. And above it is the level description. I can open and close that. Below the achievement standard are the work sample portfolios and then we have our content descriptions organised by strand. Before I move on, let me show you some new functionality with the achievement standards. If I click on any sentence in the achievement standard, that sentence is highlighted and the screen moves down to show me all of the content descriptions that are related to that particular part of the achievement standard. We think that it's going to be really helpful for teachers when they're looking at those connections between the content and the achievement standards. So I'm going to close that. Now looking at the content descriptions themselves, in mathematics we have six strands. Now what's really neat is that I can actually reorganise those strands to create a view that suits me. So I like to see number, measurement and space. Here we go, my personalised view of the curriculum. As I'm looking at each of the content descriptions, I can see that they are tagged with icons. Those icons now have little float overs that tell me that this is in fact numeracy. And I can then see where that icon appears across the curriculum. I can click into the content description to find out more about it. Here I can see that this content description as I said tagged with numeracy and I can drill down into that tagging to find out exactly where in the continuum that connection has been made. Here are my elaborations and I can scroll through them to see the tagging against each elaboration. I can also come down and view related resources. We haven't added those to the prototype yet, but when we do you'll be able to jump straight into the Scootal collection as well as curated resources from the Akara website. I'll slide that window away now and we'll go into another view that we know teachers think are really important and that is being able to look at two learning areas side by side. So I'm going to add to my view here digital technologies. Just click on that, click submit. And my learning area page rebuilds to show me both digital technologies and mathematics side by side. Now I can add as many learning areas as I like and I can rearrange them to again create the view that I want to see. As I look at the achievement standards for digital technologies, I can see that there's actually a learning area achievement standard as well as a subject achievement standard. The achievement standard functionality continues to work for each of those and I can simply close the one that's less relevant to my school context. Scrolling down I want to show you another piece of new functionality we think will be really helpful to teachers looking to integrate curriculum and that is related content. So this particular content description here has been tagged as having related content. So let me jump into the content description slide out. We can see it's a content description about describing and following algorithms in mathematics and the related content is from digital technologies in years three and four which is also about following and describing algorithms particularly sequencing, branching, etc. Now I can actually click into that content description in digital technologies to explore that further and really understand the relationship between the two. I'll slide that away. We've also added new functionality to our general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities pages. Let me go up to the F to 10 curriculum tab here and I'm going to show you first the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures priority. I click on the priority. Here's my slide out with all the background information about the priority. I'll pop that away for the minute. And our new look cross-curriculum priority page. Some brief information in the overview section here and then we come down to our organizing ideas. They're collected in three sets, country and place, culture and people. And as I scroll down I can see that each of the organizing ideas has also been tagged but here they're tagged to learning areas and subjects. Now let me show you really quickly the general capabilities new look and feel. I'm going to jump into critical and creative thinking. Again our slide out window with the background information. And here's our new look general capabilities page. We have four elements for critical and creative thinking and I can move across them here. And then if we stick to our enquiring element and I scroll down we can see that there are two sub elements. We have a brief description of each sub element and then we jump into the continuum itself. And again the continuum is now tagged with learning areas and subjects so that we can see at each level where there's content from across the learning areas that relates to that particular statement in the continuum. We think you're really going to enjoy the new functionality we've built into the Australian Curriculum website and I look forward to sharing the brand new website with you early next year.


Good evening. Good afternoon. Good morning, depending on which part of the universe you are Today we're going to talk about the impact of policy on the economy and Specifically we were going to look at the impact of monetary policy and fiscal policy. We're going to use our ISLM framework to understand how can the government affect the Equilibrium output interest rate investment or that so in the case of fiscal policy Let's let's simply take a case where the government is pressed by all kinds of constraints to reduce the deficit Or it could be a situation where in fact the government feels that the economy is overheating and then wants to slow down The matter matter what the cause is they could there could be a reason for why the government would implement what we call a contractually a contractionary fiscal policy, which means to reduce Spending or increasing taxes with the purpose of slowing down economic activity So once again, let's go back to our ISLM framework and see how we can actually Visualize the impact of fiscal policy in on the economy since we're talking about Contractually fiscal policy. Let's take the case where the government chooses to accomplish that by reducing government expenditures remember government expenditures is part of Aggregate demand so for goods and services. So it's in the goods market Which means that our focus Starting point will be the IS curve, which is the Condition for equilibrium in the goods market. So here we have a goods market Shock the shock is on the goods market in the good market So when the government reduces government expenditures, that means that aggregate demand is going to go down We will see a shift in the ISLM to the left and that will give us a new equilibrium for both income and Interest rate. So income will go down interest rate will go down So if government decides to reduce government expenditures, it will be the same if they decide to raise taxes That will result in lower output lower interest rate, but then my most more interesting question is Why does the interest rate Decline when government reduces expenditures and why does Income go down as As we see on this graph on this diagram. So why why does interest rate go down? Remember we are talking about and if first of all the government reduces expenditures, this reduces aggregate demand and It's what gives us a lower interest rate and of course a lower output, but then the question is why does interest rate go down Recall our discussion about Portfolio choice people have the choice in Holding their worth between money and bonds Now in this case, how can we use that relationship to understand why government why interest rate is going down? If government is spending less That means that the government needs to borrow less doesn't need to borrow. So that means that the Supply for bonds Which is the one of the means in which government can borrow is going to go down So government needs to borrow less Supply less the supply of bonds is going to go down supply Goes down which means that the price of bonds Goes up. We implies that Interest rate goes down Remember we always found we said that there is always a negative relationship between price of bond and interest rate So it's the is the decline in government expenditures meaning less needs for the government to borrow That means that the price of bond goes up as the supply goes down Okay, so that that's one way in which we can explain one why government why interest rate goes down Now as interest rate go down What is going to happen to investment? So in equilibrium? We see lower income Higher I mean lower interest rate, which means that the lower interest rate means that investment is going to go up But then the high the lower output means that interest rate Investment is going to go down. So what is the net effect? It all depends on whether you believe that Investment is sensitive enough to interest rate in other words when When you look at investment by firms is the constraints more on the cost of capital in the interest rate or on the availability of funds or demand Which is the which explains the relationship between interest rate. I mean investment and income if you believe if you believe that the the the constraint is on the on the demand side of Investment so that for example firms invest mostly to meet the demand for for their for their products and in which case the In which case income is a key factor in explaining in investment then this effect will be Large if you believe that it's the cost of capital that determines investment Then this effect is going to be large. So the net effect will depend on whether it's the income or Accelerator effect as we call it that is bigger or the cost of capital that is bigger So this you cannot answer this question theoretically You just have to look at the data look at the evidence and see whether at a decline in government expenditures is accompanied by an investment boom or a Decline investment and that's that's that's very important because if you are a central bank governor It all depends on which channel which effect you believe in if you believe that this is a powerful effect And you are a central bank governor You're going to use your monetary policy to keep interest rates low to simulate investment But if you if you believe that this is not strong enough then in fact what you want to in terms of simulating Investment is to accelerate Economic activity and create incomes Which is a source of demand for?  Let's take the case where a government Concerned by the fact that the economy is not growing or the economy is coming out of a recession Wants to simulate the economy through expansionary monetary policy. This means injecting more Cash in the economy or reducing interest rates, whatever it is to stimulate the economy In this case what is happening if the government if the the Fed decides to Inject more more cash in the economy. That means that money supply goes up this curve goes up shift to the right and we have a lower interest rate and higher So increasing money supply led to lower interest rate higher output But then I can ask you Why and also why here? Why does interest rate go up? Go go down when money supply goes up Here again, we're going to look at our portfolio choice So money supply goes up that means that there is excess Cash in people's pockets So people are going to buy bonds This will raise the price of bonds and there you go Meaning interest rate is lower Whereas for this one what's happening is that as money supply goes up and interest rate goes down What is happening? We hope is that the lower interest rate would Would increase cause investment to go up and income to rise So we have here both an Impact on income and an impact on on the investment Interest rate the way we explain the interest rate effect is through the portfolio choice Excess cash in the economy people get rid of excess cash by buying bonds means demand for bond goes up and the price of bonds go up Here as interest rate goes down we We are saying we are assuming that that reduces the cost of capital firms are going to invest more and that creates more That leads to higher income That sums up the impact of an expansionary monetary policy on On the economy which will lead to higher output lower interest rate. Good morning. Good afternoon Good evening depending on where you are


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