TO THE EDITOR:
Margaret Spellings has built her career on applying “metrics” to education. To the Republican-picked board that hired her, there’s only one metric that matters: broadly educated citizens tend to vote for Democrats.
In the board’s zeal to starve out left-leaning professors, they’ve gutted departments and closed centers. Now, they want to hire Spellings to justify their maneuvers in the name of “accountability.” The metrics may well say that English majors make less money after graduation, but is that a good reason to turn North Carolina’s flagship university into a trade school? It’s good politics for the Republican Party, but it’s a tragedy for the state and the nation.
Sam Shaw
Senior
History
