What the Chairman Pick Says About the GOP - Roll Call

What the Chairman Pick Says About the GOP

By Tracie Powell and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted January 31, 2009 at 1:00am

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Tracie Powell is associate editor at Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine.

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