Spellings Sees Her Legacy Centering on 'Long Overdue' Assessment of Colleges

Margaret Spellings, who hails from Texas, arrived in Washington with President Bush in 2001, serving first as a White House adviser on domestic policy. She became education secretary in 2005.

This week, as she gets ready to leave office along with the president, Ms. Spellings talked with The Chronicle about some of the key higher-education issues she handled during her tenure, including her creation of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education and her subsequent

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