Quick--before Marty Meehan's appointment as UMass-Lowell chancellor becomes old news, can anyone find another university chancellor with a resume as light on academic experience as the congressman's?
If so, let us all know. FYI, you can forget about the chancellors of
North Carolina,
Wisconsin,
UCLA,
Illinois, and the
University of Texas system. Ditto for the chancellors at lesser institutions like the
University of Michigan-Dearborn and the
California Community Colleges. They've all got more impressive higher-ed backgrounds than Meehan.
But this is Massachusetts, and we do things a bit differently here.