Updated at 3:55 p.m. Tuesday
The agency that accredits Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges is asking whether there has been undue political pressure to appoint former Gov. Sonny Perdue as chancellor of the University System of Georgia.
Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, told The Associated Press in a Tuesday telephone interview that she sent a letter Monday to the Board of Regents, who oversee the 340,000-student system, after reading news coverage suggesting that regents were being politically pressured to name Perdue to lead the system.
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