White House to Name Higher-Education Coordinator for Development Agency

By Karin Fischer. President Obama is poised to name a senior official to act as a liaison between universities and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The appointee, likely to be a former university leader, also will act as an “internal champion” within the agency for working with higher education, Eric G. Postal, an assistant administrator at USAID, said in a speech here on Sunday at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. More...