Corts named coordinator of Bush’s education plan

First lady Laura Bush recently announced that former Samford University President Thomas Corts has been named coordinator of President Bush’s new International Education Initiative.
While leading the five-year global education plan, Corts will help manage more than $2 billion annually and provide basic education to 4 million children in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Liberia, Mali and Yemen.

Resigning from his positions with the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, he and his wife, Marla, will move from Birmingham to the Washington area to fulfill his duties at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Birmingham News reported that Corts expects the paid position to end when President Bush leaves office.