Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement

by Charles Dervarics , December 2, 2009

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U.S. Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter

Dr. Martha Kanter is the first community college leader to serve as U.S. Education under secretary.

Looking long term, Kanter also wants to boost college and university involvement in international issues, including globalization and climate change. "Higher education has a role in sustainability," she says.

Internally within the department, there also is a drive to focus on the entire education continuum with greater cooperation among K-12 and higher education leaders within the federal bureaucracy. "We are talking systemically," she says.

After many years on the West Coast, she also welcomes a chance to move back east, where she completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees and served as a high school teacher. "It is the most exciting time of my life."

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