Two-Year College System Chancellor Mark Heinrich

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Mark Heinrich is finishing 2012 in a much different place from where he started it. The former president of Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa was selected in September as the new Chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system. It’s a system that’s moving past a far-reaching corruption scandal. And as Heinrich tells WBHM’s Andrew Yeager, it’s a system dealing with a revolving door of leaders.

Click here to listen to the extended interview

~ Andrew Yeager, December 27, 2012

 

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