July 27, 2001

Vacancy at the Education Dept. Worries College Leaders

By STEPHEN BURD

Some ask if the White House cares about higher education

Hardly a day goes by now without someone asking Becky Timmons whom she thinks President Bush will nominate to be the Education Department's top policy maker on college issues.

And hardly a day goes by, she says with a chuckle, when she doesn't deliver the same response: "I don't have a clue."

Ms. Timmons, the director of government relations at the American Council on Education, is paid to keep her ear to the

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