Rhaid i gael, Moridag. Thank you very much for joining me this morning. Ydyma'n gwneud ychydig i fy mod i gael ychydig i'r cychwynedd yn ychydig ar gyfer y maen nhw'n gweithio ychydig o arddangos y tirmoyol ar y UK Government's mini budget o'r gwaith. Rhaid i'n gweithio i chi gwybodaeth, cwrs mae'n credu ei wneud, ddiolch i ddweud i gwybod i gŵl yma wnghwyl. Roedd y budget yn gweithio'r gweithio cyflawni, roeddwn i'n gweithio i wneud i gweithio'r economi, ac yn ymchwil argynno'r cyfrannu. Mae'n bwysig o'r bwysigol ar gyfer o'r gyfnod ac mae'n bwysigol yw'r cyfrannu i gael yma oherwydd y cyfrannu cyfrannu. Ymwneud o'r gyfrannu gyfrannu o bwysigol yn ei gael y process yn hynny, ac mae'n gweithio gael eich bod yn y bwysigol yma. Ond yma, wrth gwrs, rwy'n teimlo i'r bwysigol yn eu cyfrannu yma ac yn y rhai rai cyfrannu cyfrannu dillwn i'r mynd i'r gweithiau, dwi'n deithas i ffyrddau ymddangos iawn i amdweithio'r ffordd yng Nghymru, wedi bydd yw'r newid ffondi'r ffondi. Rwy'n cael y byddwch yn ei gwrthigau'r gweithiau yng Nghymru a'r bydiau'r gweithio'r gweithio. Os yw'r gweithio, y mae'r ysgolwyr yn ymdweithio a'n gyfrofenniol yn gweithio'r gweithio'r ddechrau. sydd wedi'u gweithio'r Prif Weiniddoedd's economic policies into action. Yn ystod o'r ffordd o'r newid o gweithio, mae'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r mayhem a'r caos. Y Bank of England was forced to take emergency action to prevent pension funds collapsing. Morgaage rates and the cost of government borrowing have soared and we all face higher interest rates and the country is sliding into recession. The latest Chancellor has now reversed most of the mini-budget and the Prime Minister has resigned, but the damage has been done. There is a gaping hole in public finances and we will all be paying for the UK government's failures through higher taxes and a new era of austerity. I want to focus on what this means for us here in Wales. Decisions to raise or lower departmental spending in Westminster has a very real impact on us here in Wales and that's because the majority of our funding comes as a block grant from the UK government. So I'll start with what we know. Our capital budget was already due to fall year on year over the three years of this spending review period. Because of inflation and the way the UK government has mishandled the economy, our budget next year could be worth £1.5 billion less in real terms than we expected. We also know that the UK government will be clawing back £140 million over the next two years and that was the funding which had been earmarked to pay for employers' higher national insurance contributions, but now it won't be available to help us meet other pressures. On top of these big holes in our budget, the Chancellor has said that fresh spending cuts are coming. He has said decisions of eye water in difficulty will need to be made. And his new Council of Economic Advisers includes George Osborne's former adviser, the architect of the original decade of austerity which led to spending cuts, pay freezes and severe reductions to benefits. We don't yet know how big the cuts will be or where they'll fall, but the direction of travel is clear. We could easily be facing bigger real terms reductions than in any year of austerity. Those earlier cuts were made after spending had been growing for a decade. Even then, making spending cuts was difficult enough. Today, after a decade of austerity and two years of the pandemic, there are no easy cuts to make. If the Chancellor starves public services in England of funding, he will be starving public services in Wales too. A fresh round of austerity will threaten jobs, businesses, public services and our economy. We hope that we will know more on the 31st of October if the change in Prime Minister hasn't derailed the timetable for the Chancellor's statement. Austerity is a choice. Cutting departmental spending and stifling economic growth is a choice. It's not too late for the UK Government to choose to take a different approach. When the Chancellor sets out his medium term fiscal plan, he could choose to use his tax powers more equitably and tax the enormous windfall gains of the energy and banking sectors to help avoid some of the deepest and most damaging cuts. There are four things that we want to see next week. Firstly, public services need to be protected. The twin threat of inflation and spending cuts risks decimating the services that we all rely on. Secondly, the UK Government needs to honour its own commitment to increase benefits in line with inflation. It's already cut back its flagship energy price guarantee, creating worry and uncertainty for people who are already struggling to pay their bills. We need to be a part of that promised review of the energy price guarantee and it needs to be done quickly so that households and businesses have clarity about what's available after April. The targeted support needs to be given to those who need the help the most and that's absolutely nothing less than a necessity. Thirdly, we need to see a real plan for economic growth, not the fallacy of trickle-down economics. We need to see a boost to infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy, including green investment. And I am deeply concerned that we have yet another UK Government which is absolutely silent on the climate emergency that we're all facing. And finally, we repeat our calls for the Welsh Government's borrowing powers to be increased to give us more flexibility to deal with the crisis. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be working hard to create a balanced budget. If the UK Government continues to go down its destructive path of austerity, already tough decisions will become even more difficult. What we need to see at the Halloween statement from the Chancellor is a determined focus on sustainable growth and fairness not more chaos and damaging cuts. So, thank you for listening to me this morning and I'm now going to take questions from journalists. And first I go to Hugh Thomas, BBC Wales. Morning, Minister. You've outlined some of the concerns that you've got about what you can last week on a scenario that she said the NHS was facing without further funding next year. This morning, Rishi Sunak begins as Prime Minister. What commitments do you want from him and what can he do to reset the relationship between Westminster and your government in Cardiff? So, I share our health minister's concerns about the impact that the recent events in Westminster will have on our Welsh Government budget and also the impact overall of inflation on our budget which is now with £4 billion over this spending review period less than it was at the time that we set that budget and inevitably that without intervention will have an impact on what we're able to invest in the health service and also in social care and through local authorities to other public services as well. So, what we really want to see now from the new Prime Minister and from the new Chancellor is a serious indication that they will not be looking to cut public services and they will not be looking to cut public funding quite the opposite that they will look to invest in public services and in public and in particularly in health and social care and through local authorities as well. So, we're seeking that level of reassurance. There are options for the UK Government. They could look to increase the windfall tax on those really excessive and unexpected profits that we've seen in the energy sector, for example, and they could look to raise taxes in a more equitable way. So, there are choices available for the UK Government and we hope that the new Prime Minister and the latest Chancellor will recognise those challenges. And, you know, we congratulate the new Prime Minister on his new role and hope that we can establish a good and constructive working relationship with him. I have worked with him previously. He was a former chief secretary to the Treasury in several roles ago now and I look forward to maintaining a relationship with him and as I say, I hope it will be a positive relationship. Can I ask you more broadly about what your Government can do to help people at the moment with the cost of living as we go into the winter and into next year as well. Where, what are the levers that you can pull? And would you pull the one that would stop it, that would bring down business rates next year when lots of people, particularly in hospitality, are concerned about those going back up in April next year? Would you be prepared to keep that interest, that business rate relief in place into the next financial year as well? Well, we're already doing a great amount to support people through the cost of living crisis. For example, we've introduced a package of £400 million of support and that includes the latest winter fuel payment which households are able to access to help them through the winter. That's £200. It's only available here in Wales and it's over and above any of the support which the UK Government has made available to those households. So, you know, we're doing everything we can within the resources that we have, but we need to be realistic. And that's why I think that when we're talking about what we can do to support businesses through business rates, again we have to be realistic. So, we do have a generous package of business support available. We spend over £200 million in supporting businesses in Wales and around 70,000 businesses are supported with their business rates already and a good chunk of those pay no business rates at all. But yes, if the UK Government does intend to take action in this space, we would warmly welcome that and then use consequential funding and a considered way to see what more we can do to support businesses. But we had a debate on this exact subject in the centre just last week and I heard very strongly those calls for additional support in the realm of business rates. But I think we need to see the other side of that as well. So, where do we divert funding from to support business rates and to make a greater intervention than we already do in business rates? Because that's the side of the issue that I wasn't hearing from colleagues in the centre. Bear in mind, next year our budget will be worth £1.5 billion less already as a result of inflation. But obviously we're keen to explore what more we can do within the resources that we have available to us. Oh, so now we go to Dan Bevan global. Thank you minister, good morning. We've spoken with several council leaders and councillors with the portfolio of finance. They are extremely worried about the next few months what could lie ahead. To put it candidly, what they're saying is it's not a case of which services will have to be cut. It's how much from all of them. Given how important council services are to their communities, to public health, to put it rather bluntly, are lives at risk because of these cuts? So I absolutely share those concerns that local government leaders have universally shared with me in respect of their budget for both this financial year and also the two years which follow. At the spending review which we undertook we did give local government a generous settlement. It was very warmly welcomed at the time an increase of over 9% but the story has changed a great deal since that point and local government is reporting big holes in funding in terms of the services which they need to provide. So yes, I do share the concerns that local government has. We work in social partnership here in Wales so I have a really strong relationship with local government leaders. We meet very frequently. We have fortnightly meetings with other ministers but then I meet myself with them at least weekly in various forums as well and they take every opportunity to impress upon me the gaps that they have in their public finances at the moment and we use that evidence then as we try to make the case to the UK government for further support for public services but at the moment things are going to be difficult so if there is no further funding and if we actually receive a cut to our funding as we are potentially expecting on the 31st of October then in ever to be there will be cuts to public services and the inevitable job losses which follow that and of course you end up in a cycle where those people then potentially need to rely on public services which find themselves under greater pressure which is exactly not the cycle that we want to be getting into which again is why we impress upon the UK government the need to invest in public services. So do you believe that lives or indeed livelihoods are at risk by all of this? I don't want to use inflammatory language or concern people unduly but I think that it is inevitable at this point that services will be cut and obviously people do depend on those services of course it doesn't have to happen Chancellor is making a statement on the 31st of October where he could invest in public services and help public services through this difficult period but at this point in time as I say our budget is worth so much less next year local government is experiencing exactly the same thing so they will be making incredibly different difficult choices about the services which they prioritise as will be in Welsh government as well so I think that the budget that we're preparing now as we move towards publishing our budget in December will be a very different budget to those which we've prepared in recent years where we've been allocating additional funding this will be a budget about re-prioritising and moving potentially money away from some of the things that we would love to keep on doing. If I could just get a second question Minister a lot was made of the fact that Liz Truss in her short tenureship didn't call the first minister which is a tradition after taking office is that important if so why and do you hope that Rysi Siunac picks up the phone this afternoon? I certainly do hope that the new prime minister makes contact with our first minister at the earliest possible opportunity after it becomes formally the prime minister because I do think that it demonstrates a willingness to to work together for people at the end of the day that's what people want they want governments which work and collaborate effectively for their benefit which I think is the appropriate thing to do and it also of course shows respect to devolution and to devolve governments so I would certainly hope that the first minister would receive a nearly phone call. Okay so we'll move now to Brad Williams ITV Wales Thank you minister do you think Mr Siunac will provide stability that your neighbour says the country needs? I certainly hope that will be the case because we always want our prime ministers to do well and to provide stability whichever party they represent because of course that is in the best interests of us in Wales and also in the best interests of people more widely across the United Kingdom so we certainly hope to see now a period of stability and I think that one of the ways in which he could bring that stability would be through working with his chancellor to make sure that the statement on the 31st of October is one which invests in public services but also one which considers the importance of capital investment so the UK government's own National Infrastructure Commission has demonstrated the vital role of maintaining investment in infrastructure in order to meet the challenges of delivering net zero and you know the growth commission which was established by the London School of Economics has also identified investing in green infrastructure and also in human capital through skills and education and so on as being the key ways in which you can stimulate growth in the economy so I would hope that the chancellor and the new prime minister will be working in that spirit to deliver on the 31st of October and what do you want the UK government to do over the next few weeks? So I'd like the UK government to look very closely as they start to finalise I suppose their plans for the 31st of October and again just really to take that opportunity to to move away from what the previous chancellor and the previous prime minister were intending to do and I'm still concerned that the chancellor is talking about eye watering cuts of course that's worrying to us but it doesn't have to be that way the Welsh government has set out ways in which the UK government could raise funding to invest in public services but then also to recognise the importance of capital investment as well so you know that green infrastructure I was talking about and investing in people's skills and investing in education to support the economy so those are things that we would like to see we'd also like to see a really pragmatic approach now from the the new chancellor and the chief secretary to the treasury in terms of Welsh government's powers so you know we're keen to see an increase in our borrowing powers for example we're seen keen to see more pragmatic flexibility over our year-end funding so that we're able to deploy our resources in the most effective and value for money way and also take a much more strategic approach to our spending and those are simple things it wouldn't cost the UK government to deliver to us and it would show I think that they are keen to work with us and support us to allow us to do the best possible job that we can do for people in Wales so thank you Brad we'll move on now to Tony Wyn Jones Morn FM Yes, good morning minister Tony Jones from Morn FM community radio in terms of the fresh spending cuts you mentioned you've mentioned there's no easy cuts to make and you wish to protect public services and public services of course I've been cutting and cutting and cutting over the years how will you prioritise cuts so that local authorities in Wales you know actually don't lose those essential services that have to be maintained will there be a transfer of emphasis in terms of moving the burden on to the private sector and windfall tax for instance This is a really really important question in terms of how we go about setting now our budget as we move to publish it on the on the 13th of December and it will be a budget of prioritisation and it will be a budget of really difficult decisions so it will be inevitable I think that we will end up doing less of some of the things that we would absolutely love to do and the things that people expect us to do so it will be a really really difficult budget but I just want to say that when we prioritise and when we look across our budget we do so through the lens of trying to support those people who need it most we look at things through the lens of the climate and nature emergency and we try to take the right choices based on those kind of principles which guide us in the choices that we make I think that the point that you make about windfall taxes is an important one so that's something that we don't have the power to do here in Wales but it's certainly something that we encourage the UK government to do in terms of the excess profits particularly in the energy sector at the moment I think the energy sector itself would probably expect the UK government to act in this area so it's perplexing as to why they don't go further in that space but it's something that potentially the new Chancellor might consider doing and the second question if remain if decisions are taken in isolation of Wales Northern Ireland and Scotland how will you overcome any inequalities going forward and will communications be improved between the nations of the UK and the UK governments because if we are in such austere times and heading towards even worse economic times then it's very important that everybody pulls together on this one Absolutely and good communication and good relationships can only ever be for the good of people in Wales which is why we work really hard to maintain those relationships under Theresa May we made an agreement with the UK government around the intergovernmental infrastructure which would support those discussions and those negotiations and we felt that that was a really positive step forward in terms of cementing those structures where we would have those important discussions between governments and I've certainly found the finance interministerial committee meetings to be very useful so far we've only met the twice but I think that the tone definitely changed in those meetings and we would like now the new government to put the same kind of effort into those intergovernmental relationships that we do and that we would like to see them do just because it's so important for people in Wales and you know you're absolutely right Tony in the sense that you know in most difficult times that's when we need to come together and pull together most so I think that you know good collaborative work in relationships are important it's important of course that we challenge the UK government when we see them to be not acting in a way which is to the benefit of Wales it's important when we challenge them when they're not providing the funding that we need but equally it's important that we sit down and have those adult conversations with them very frequently as well and we always enter into discussions in the most positive way that we can to try and influence to the to the good of Wales so thank you for your questions and it's good to see you look forward to seeing you again soon thank you


11, easy, ball control exercises, ball control drills. If you're confident, you want to improve, you want to push yourself. As soon as that ball's settled, boom, pop it up, and let's go again. Popping up different techniques, different parts of the foot. Okay, so again, because those, but just keep that idea in mind, try to settle the ball as quickly as possible, pop it back up as quickly as possible, perform the next skill. So number one is this toe control. Okay, so I'm controlling the ball on the toe, and I'm trying to cushion it. Almost, think of like a foot stall. So when you're doing a foot stall, your foot isn't going through the ball. Your foot is actually absorbing the ball into the ground. Okay, so do that with the toe. I'm almost bringing my leg backwards rather than putting my foot through the ball. I'm trying to reduce any bounce, practicing with both feet, but I'm hitting, I'm not hitting it here, I'm hitting on the toe of the boot, and really absorbing it, and almost bringing my leg backwards. Next would be inside control. And when I'm practicing these, I'm just going to practice that touch, let it settle. Okay, I'm trying to hit with the inside of the foot, not on the toe here, not on the heel, nice cushion here. In order to do that, I need the mobility and the flexibility of the hips. A lot of players struggle, they can only open up their hip like this. But the more you practice this skill and really focus on flexing, really opening up, I want this to come. If you don't turn it enough, the touch is going to go that way. This inside touch, I just want it to set right in the middle, okay? If you want to perform that skill properly, you have to have the ability to twist the foot and it's the tightness in the hips and the groins in here. Okay, so if you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner, you can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy. A lot of players will struggle with the proper contact point. So they're either hitting it here, or they're hitting it here, and it's bouncing off. You're trying to hit right in here, make that flesh, make that flat. And the point of contact, you want to meet it here, not here, not here. You want to meet it here, and just settle that ball play as quickly as possible. Especially on your weaker side, the more you play with it, the more you compare your right to your left, you're going to figure out that weaker side, flesh contact, play it quickly. So similar to the toe control, remember absorbing the ball, a lot of players when they come to do their thigh, for some reason, they're going through it again. Bring it down, absorb the ball. Okay, I want to get the ball on the ground as quickly as possible so I can play, unless I'm trying to set myself to play in the air. Okay, but for these, I'm trying to absorb as quickly as possible, and then play. I want to hit on the thigh, it's called thigh control. Not a knee control, a thigh control. Okay, obviously sometimes it might come off the knee, and if it is off the knee, it has to be even more delicate because that's more bone, it's a harder surface. It's going to produce a bigger force if I'm going through it. And even if I'm coming down, I've really got to absorb it. For me, a lot of players, first of all, scared of the ball. So when it's time to chest, it's not an actual chest. They're not actually chesting it. They're kind of half, they're not showing their whole chest. I want to open up rather than scared or making a smaller surface. Open this up. And then the other thing is the arch, the lean back. If I really want to cushion that there, I'll have to lean back. Next I was doing a head control, a right weight of touch, but different techniques. And here I'm just thinking of wherever it comes, just dealing with it. So sometimes it might be more direct. Sometimes it might be coming from a little higher. All these touches just get on the ground, play as quickly as possible. So a lot of players, when they're first starting, they can't get the timing right and the ball's bouncing too much and they're trying to get down on it. If that happens, sometimes soccer, sometimes you have to make it work. The first one I actually did was a sole. And I wouldn't do that too many times in a match. You see Marcelo, Marcelo does that sometimes like 50 yard ping across just casual. And then go and play. But it's a good skill to practice ball mastery. When you're performing the skill, I want to see the focus and the effort actually watch the ball until it meets the ground. The next ground control I did was an inside touch. A lot of players when they're first starting, they can't get the timing right and the ball's bouncing too much and they're trying to get down on it. If that happens, sometimes soccer, sometimes you have to make it work. So right after that half fully, inside touch and really focus on the movement. Technique is important. It's how you move with the ball. It's how you move your body. Be more athletic. Be more on the toes, less on the heels. But I'm really, I'm getting that touch with the inside of the foot. I'm bringing my hips over the ball.  I'm trying to move. I'm trying to move with my first touch. And if I want an even bigger changing direction, I'm turning my hips over even more. Same with the outside of the foot. And you can see I'm, again, watching, I'm focused. You don't want to be back here. If you don't have to, always want to be over the ball. Cause even if I have a bad touch, I can still get to the ball quickly. But this one, even more so, I'm focused on my hip movement. My hips are around it and I'm traveling with my first touch. I'm going somewhere with my first touch. Croig, same principles, timing of it. And just getting on top of the ball.  I'm focusing on getting my planting leg out of the way. Cause if I don't, I'm just going to hit it into myself. So a little jump will help me get that planting leg out of the way. For me, a lot of players when they do a croig, they're actually doing a chop rather than really curling the toes and dragging the ball behind them on that line. It's not here. You're going to chop me in here. I want that foot turned here. Almost go too much the wrong way. And you'll probably end up going centered. Okay, but just practice. And it's all about the timing, getting it right on top of that ball. Don't let the ball hit the ground. Here you can have a little jumble, but still just go one, two, hop. One, two, hop. And I was using all different techniques. All the ones that we practiced. Okay, just going to drop the ball. But a few little touches, pop it up, control that ball. If you like this content, check out the soccer success planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the online soccer academy.


Greetings everybody. Many many times over the last year I've said I'll bet you have what a shame that we're doing this virtually and not in person but there's rarely been a time I've meant it as emphatically as I do now because Ordinarily we would be in Naples, Florida enjoying the annual Boilermaker weekend down there I know many of you watching would have been there and those who haven't before I hope you'll join us Let's say next year when We're back to our normal schedule But in lieu of that opportunity I've been asked to give you an update on the campus Life at Purdue during this very eventful last year And I'll endeavor to do that now as I would if we were together down there in the sunshine The only place to start and thinking about the calendar year 2020 at Purdue or any other school is that how we operated during the COVID pandemic and of course the starting point is that unlike many schools we did operate we were there in the fall with a Largely residential experience at least as much as any school our size So let me just tell you a little bit about that sort of that situation and how we dealt with it Here's a summary of the most important tactic among many that we employed our testing and tracing a System which took all summer to devise and was constantly Upgraded and enhanced during the fall, but here are just some basic results. We Tested every student had to submit a negative test before arriving that meant we found some COVID-positive students and intercepted them before they could come to campus and enter And in fact anyone else and then during the semester as you see here We administered well over a hundred thousand tests anyone with symptoms was asked to come in right away And then we did what we called surveillance testing Taking a sample of roughly 10% of the student and staff population Each week you'll see here that we had relatively modest rates of positivity the Plus in semester tests means those who did test positive The most important thing and the thing we watched the most closely was the severity I asked our medical team to devise a six point Or six level scale because one thing that would have caused us to reverse field and and Close the campus would have been if we had any meaningful number of students or staff becoming very seriously ill That did not happen as you'll see here over 80% of our students and Well over two-thirds of our staff had only the very mildest cases and we had almost none that required Significant attention or hospitalization maybe the most important factor among many that allowed us to operate in the fall was the behavior of faculty staff and especially students each of us took the Purdue pledge which you see here and Committed to practice the sort of behaviors that would protect Each individual But also everyone around him or her and of course the institution itself and our ability to Continue operations. I just can't say enough especially about our young people and the way in which they Complied with the inconveniences and the impositions of this pledge It was really something to see and anybody who worries about the character or quality or commitment to others of Today's young people at least the young Boilermakers Can can look at the record of last fall and feel and feel very good about it the Way we taught had to change of course first thing was that any faculty member Who was in the vulnerable category that is above a certain age or had certain a pre-existing health conditions we didn't want in the classroom and So that led to many of our courses having to be converted to an online format Many others were taught in a hybrid way meaning maybe one in-person meeting a week and the others online And but 70% of our courses involved at least some in-person Encounters and experience and this included many of our lab courses which as a very STEM oriented university these days means almost every student So this was not the residential experience that our students Expected or have experienced at other times But it was as good as we could do we thought consistent with the safety of the community and it was a higher percentage than any school in our class that were in our size category that we're aware of Here's just a partial list of the actions. We took steps We took the investments we made to make Purdue safe from in the fall. I won't enumerate them all I simply want to illustrate that we were Determined to leave nothing to chance and leave no dollar unspent that might make our classrooms and other spaces A little bit more secure for all. I do want to single out the top line on this Chart our student ambassadors well over a hundred of them Putting in many many hours Encouraging that their fellow students to abide by the pledge handing out masks of someone forgot one Both modeling and urging good behavior. They were really an important factor in Generating that terrific student compliance. I talked about now. Let's talk about Purdue today Since we were alive and kicking off all what what was going on? What did we look like the first thing? I want to mention is that for the first time in our history Purdue University now serves over a hundred thousand students This is partially due to the growth of the West Lafayette campus and also the addition three years ago of Purdue Global about which I'll say a little bit more but over a hundred thousand People are now benefiting from Purdue education in its various forms Here's our undergraduate enrollment at West Lafayette a Record total even in the COVID year. You'll see that some of these students Opted for the online only a version of our of our fall curriculum about half of that 4400 were international students most of whom could not get here would have come to campus but could not get here because of travel restrictions so Something like 8% of our student body chose the course of online But all the rest wanted the residential experience and came here even knowing it wouldn't be quite what it has been or Will be in the future We have enrolled a record number of Hoosier students during the last few years You'll see that that number was declining and very much as a part of our strategic purpose to While maintaining Purdue standards Make a Purdue education available to as many students who could meet those standards as wanted it You'll see that we've seen a lot of growth and that included Students from our home state who still represent a majority of the undergrads on campus and here you see the fact that we had brought up dramatically during The last several years the number of Hoosiers that we have offered admission to West Lafayette an Indiana student who applies here hasn't A better than 70% chance of being accepted and a better than 90% chance of being accepted to one of our campuses One of our two regionals as an option if they're not we don't believe quite ready for West Lafayette Our students are still succeeding as I know All of you I have in life and here you'll see that about 95% of our recent graduates were employed within six months or at least pursuing further education within six months of leaving and Earning salaries that are very very competitive with graduates of other schools We've been working very hard to further diversify the student body at West Lafayette. This is not easy for a school Like ours any school in the country. We all are working Dilligently to do this, but we've had a lot of growth. You'll see here growth in numbers of URM students. You'll see a doubling of the number total number of minority students on campus and Even higher increases in the most recent classes like our freshmen and we're doing a lot to try to do better than this but the gains are Noteworthy and encouraging One of the most direct things we have done is start our own high schools I hope you're aware of this by now our first of what are now three Purdue Polytechnic high schools in inner cities in Indiana to Indianapolis one in South Bend Is in its fourth year and so the first graduates are emerging you'll see here that We've been it been able to admit 48 students We hope they'll all come we have raised enough money to Make certain that economics does not become the last barrier after they have proven themselves academically ready for a Purdue education and While these numbers is just the first year while these numbers are Only as big as they are I will tell you that if these students if two-thirds of these students Say yes to our offer and we hope we'll do better than that it will double the number of Young people we've been able to recruit from the entire Indianapolis public school system During most recent years and it will double the number of black students that we've been able to attract So it's a great start and when we have three schools up and operating if we can achieve numbers like this We will make a very substantial difference having built our own pipeline When the pool of minority students and low-income students is so distressingly small otherwise I Talked about Purdue global or online university. It's growing very smartly. It is more than paying its bills and and Offers the promise of further growth in the future It's very important to remember the difference between Purdue global and the rest of our campuses As you'll see here It is almost two-thirds female It is mainly working adults the average age is well over 30 and It is really aimed at one of the most important target audiences in America Everyone now realizes and that is people who didn't complete college the first time most of the students who kind of Purdue global Made a start at college but didn't get through and came out if anything with some debt And our goal is to help them get to a much better place in life And that's what the record shows happens for those who do succeed You know that we've tried very hard to make Purdue a As affordable and accessible as we can We've now pledged not just this coming year but the year after that tuition will once again be held constant and here you see some ways of Expressing that that today's freshmen were in elementary school the last time Purdue raised tuition and we have kept the Indiana tuition level below $10,000 if we had raised prices at the average rate That has gone on elsewhere in the Big Ten. This would have been the outcome you see that the annual difference right now for an Indiana student is Over $1,300 so $5,000 over the course of a four-year degree Those students from out of state Are saving of course even more and you'll see that we lowered We've lowered room and board rates while they have increased substantially at other Schools the total savings for an Indiana student now come to essentially the cost of a year's tuition Or as the bottom of the slide says four years at the price of three Here's what's been going on elsewhere with regard to room and board Some other schools have begun to moderate their tuition increases a couple have even held them constant for a year or two But many of the same ones raised other fees such as room and board we haven't as I said We've brought them down just slightly and you'll see that room and board at Purdue is now the least expensive In the Big Ten a big change from a little while ago for Resident students that is Indiana students living on campus is less Expensive now to attend Purdue than it was ten years ago same for out of state students And you'll see the widening gap between us and the average cost at another Big Ten school and Here's what's happened to debt not surprisingly when you hold the price down debt has declined with it and We're very very pleased with this reduction across the entire student body. We sometimes calculate by the way that a A family that families collectively have saved over a billion dollars Compared to what would have happened if we had risen along with the rest of the The rest of our competition Here is the default rate for boiler makers Far below that of other public universities and as the box at the bottom points out well over half of that small percentage that Are not making their payments are those who did not graduate if you graduated from Purdue There's almost zero chance that you will not be paying back or able to pay back your student loans on time one of the major Strategic decisions we made several years ago was to become even stronger at the STEM disciplines at which Purdue has always excelled Which were always part of our land-grant assignment And which are so central to the success of individuals and our overall society in this information High-tech age, and so you'll see that The percent of undergrads in one or another of the STEM disciplines has risen very sharply It's we're now probably fourth in America behind two of the UC California schools and Georgia Tech In in terms of the percentage of our students studying science or technology We have really worked hard to become as we call it entrepreneur you encouraging any faculty member any student for that matter with an idea to pursue it patented if that is appropriate and and to start or try to start an enterprise based on it and We have become one of the top universities in the world in all these categories and The number of startups here has exceeded that at almost every school in the country. I think we've been second behind a Stanford ahead of lesser-known places like Harvard And MIT in most recent years. I want to say just a few words about another mission that We believe is important to Purdue's future, but for that matter our to the future of our surrounding neighborhoods neighborhoods in the Greater Tippecanoe County area and really the whole state of Indiana and that is to make of our school And in its environment a more dynamic and vibrant and economically successful place that will allow us to attract even better faculty even better students and to contribute to the prosperity of Our surrounding community So the west side of campus in 2014 already a lot of changes that happen including the bypass that you'll you'll see that was built by the state of Indiana and and under a previous governor But it's the investments. We've made since then that have made the most difference those of you who haven't been to campus I think would be very very surprised by What you'll find when you do get here The Discovery Park District project Which began with our Narrowing of State Street our beautification of State Street and turning State Street really into just another campus Boulevard and not the State Highway that it was during our whole previous history was a first step a trigger here, but you'll see that many great companies have have come to locate here in Either our pre-existing research parks or the new Discovery Park District, which sits along state and airport roads and out around the airport and then Finally And I could offer more illustrations than this. We do believe we see an unmistakable Enhancement of the great reputation Purdue's always had nationally That one always has to take some of these ratings with a little salt But the accumulation of them I think is makes for a pattern. That's that is pretty clear That we are not only Indiana's flagship university, but one of America's and And growing I believe in stature and reputation All the time again this year we had record applications even in this COVID year when they are down nationally and a and by far a record Applications from young people from the other 49 states. I think evidence that once again that the renown of your university is is strong and and improving so There's a quick tour through The university that we are I'll just say that The era ahead we all know will be a different one We're thinking very very hard about what a post COVID world will look like in terms of how you operate a university like this How many students and what kind will choose to come whether they will be looking for a full four years on campus or some? blend of online and remote and maybe Internships co-op experiential as we say education along the way so we take Some heart from the progress of the last few years, but we know it is absolutely no guarantee Of success in the future. We're thinking right now about ways to make Purdue as well suited to the 2020s as we think it has been over over the last few years and thinking about what investments will make that more likely So there's a quick tour. I Hope it was of some use. I hope even more that I'll be able to make a similar presentation to you in person In Naples next year. Thanks for watching boiler up