The Chronicle News Blog: American Council on Education Names Molly Broad as President
Molly Corbett Broad, who orchestrated sweeping changes to the tradition-bound University of North Carolina system during her recent nine-year tenure there, was named president of the American Council on Education on Tuesday.
Ms. Broad, who will succeed David Ward on May 1, will be the first woman to lead the nation’s top higher-education group since it was founded in 1918.
An economist by training, Ms. Broad is known as a modernizer who isn’t afraid to challenge conventional wisdom and ruffle some feathers. While serving as the University of North Carolina system president from 1997 to 2006, she touched the third rails of higher-education—affirmative action and tuition pricing—and came out on top.
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