Higher education at Univ. of NC reaches a new low.

The attacks came almost immediately after it was announced Margaret Spelling
would be named of president of the Univ. of NC system.

Not surprisingly, protests were organized as Ms. Spelling was criticized for past
remarks and even for serving in the Bush Administration. Never mind she had
the strongest credentials of anyone to serve in this position, as the former
Secy of the US Dept. of Education.

Ms. Spelling is not the first former cabinet secy. to land a position at a major
university. In recent years there were two others.

First, Donna Shalala, who served as Secy. of HHS under Bill Clinton became
the president of Univ. of Miami. 

And, more recently ​Janet Napolitano, who served Barack Obama as the Secy.
of Homeland Security accepted the position of president at Univ. of California.

Neither Shalala or Napolitano held high level positions in education, yet their
appointment were not met with campus protests as we see here in Chapel Hill.

This has come to be expected, in academia if you are a Democrat all doors are
open, with little regard for your credentials.