North Carolina
Related: About this forumAnother disastrous result of Republicans taking control of NC: former advisor to GWB and currently
president of his library has been named the new President of the UNC System.
Spellings career has been closely tied to Bush. She was U.S. education secretary from 2005 to 2009 in Bushs second term. Previously, she was his domestic policy adviser and his education adviser when he was governor of Texas. She is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article41183529.html#storylink=cpy
zazen
(2,978 posts)blm
(113,817 posts)who gained control of the legislatures.
Wisconsin and NC systems that supported research and creativity are being ripped apart.
mnhtnbb
(32,059 posts)and how these lying a$$hole Republicans who demanded Tom Ross' resignation last
January claimed it wasn't "political". Do these people actually think that people
buy their lies? They are so transparent.
This makes me sick. We live in Chapel Hill. My youngest son graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill
in 2012. I sure am glad he's already in grad school elsewhere.
We watched Ronnie take on the UC system and start working to destroy it way back in the 60's
when we lived in California. That's when these attacks on major public university systems started
and it's just disgusting to see this still happening 50 years later.
mnhtnbb
(32,059 posts)since leaving the Bushie administration. And she also has long ties to Rove. Great skills, indeed. Maybe come
next spring during tornado season someone will drop a house on her.
Since leaving Washington, Spellings has served on corporate boards for Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix; ClubCorp, which owns and manages golf and sports clubs; and student-loan collector Ceannate Corp.
"I have skills that are different from theirs," she said. "I am not an academic."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margaret-spellings-unc-president_562a622fe4b0ec0a38944016
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)rove, jeb, the bush center, mitch edwards...
mnhtnbb
(32,059 posts)It's becoming very difficult to hold any respect at all for these Republicans that have set out
to destroy North Carolina and turn it into another Mississippi or Alabama or Georgia or...