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Margaret Spellings Prepares To Lead UNC System

WUNC | By Will Michaels,
Frank Stasio
Published December 17, 2015 at 12:05 PM EST
Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, has been tabbed as the next UNC system president.
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Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, has been tabbed as the next UNC system president.

Sarah Brown, reporter for The Chronical of Higher Education, expounds on the controversy over the hiring of Margaret Spellings as the new UNC system president

The controversial hiring of Margaret Spellings as the new UNC system president has received national attention for its political implications.

Some professors say her background as Secretary of Education under the George W. Bush administration is a signal of more divestment in higher education.

But some of Spellings' former colleagues say she is just what the UNC system needs to connect with a Republican legislature.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Sarah Brown, reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, about what Spellings' presidency could mean for the UNC system.

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Will Michaels
Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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