Former Trump Agriculture Secretary Named As Sole Finalist To Be Chancellor Of Georgia Public Universities

The New York Times reports:

Georgia’s public university system said on Tuesday that former Gov. Sonny Perdue was its sole finalist to become chancellor, a choice that has outraged some professors and led a regional agency to threaten the accreditation of the 26-school system.

The likely appointment of Mr. Perdue, a Republican, comes during a volatile time in Georgia politics, with the State Legislature considering several bills that would ban, or limit, how race and activism are taught in the classroom.

“A chancellor’s job is to defend the system against such bills,” said Matthew Boedy, a rhetoric and composition professor at the University of North Georgia and the president of the Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors. “I can’t imagine Sonny Perdue doing that.”

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Perdue appeared on JMG many times during the Trump administration, perhaps most notably when as Agriculture Secretary he ruled that food plants under USDA control were permitted to post anti-LGBT materials in employee break rooms. You may recall that he also gutted Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunches program. Perdue first appeared on JMG when as Georgia governor he held a public prayer vigil for rain.

Georgia’s public university system said on Tuesday that former Gov. Sonny Perdue was its sole finalist to become chancellor, a choice that has outraged some professors and led a regional agency to threaten the accreditation of the 26-school system. https://t.co/CgGHfuzGzZ

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