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The first women to lead the American Council on Education since its start in 1918, Molly Corbett Broad is best known as a coalition-builder who modernized the tradition-bound University of North Carolina system as its president from 1997 to 2006.
Beginning on May 1, Broad will lead the nation's top higher education group in bringing together public and private colleges and universities, and articulate a policy agenda that all players in higher education can support, from community colleges to top research universities.
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"The issues, the values, and the priorities that we have in common in American higher education so far exceed the issues that divide us that it seems to me imperative that we use our very best skills to build a working consensus," she said.
She is an economist, who used those skills and her ability to lead by persuasion rather than force to make change. ...