When Janet Napolitano, the departing U.S. secretary of homeland security, becomes president of the University of California, her leadership may be exactly what the struggling institution needs to propel itself forward during a time of painful budget cuts. Or it could signal an unusual candidate without much higher-education experience sweeping in and furthering the downward spiral of a 10-campus system that is considered by some to be the nation’s crown jewel of public higher education. That’s been the range of responses from faculty members, administrators, students, and higher-education experts to the choice of Ms. Napolitano, who was confirmed as president on Thursday by the university’s Board of Regents. She is expected to begin her tenure in late September.

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by Seth Zweifler, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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