Margaret Spellings has faced more than four months of near-constant criticism since she was named president of the University of North Carolina system. The former U.S. secretary of education knows that some opposition comes with the territory; she has spent decades in public life. But "to see that visceral reaction before I’d even done one thing was a little surprising," Ms. Spellings said on Monday in a phone interview with The Chronicle. She takes office as North Carolina’s president on Tuesday, at a $775,000 annual salary.

March 1, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education