New ACCS Chancellor Selected

(3rd November, 2009)

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Board picks Hill as new Alabama 2-year chancellor

The State Board of Education picked a Georgia educator Friday to become chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system and help lead it back from a financial scandal that brought down a former chancellor.

Freida Hill, deputy commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia, was unanimously chosen by the nine-member board. Women have served as interim chancellors in the past but Hill is the first female to hold the position on a permanent basis.

The board’s chairman, Gov. Bob Riley, said he talked to Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue before deciding to support Hill.

“I’m not too sure I’ve ever heard someone as highly recommended,” Riley said.

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Source:  ACCS News Release

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