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Community college dean tapped for federal higher education post

President Barack Obama named Glen Cumming, dean of institutional advancement at Southern Maine Community College and former speaker of the state’s house of representatives, as assistant secretary of education for vocational and adult education, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

This is the second community college administrator Obama has appointed to a federal post. The first, Martha Kanter, chancellor of Foothill-De Anza Community College District in California, has been named under secretary of education.