Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29.

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Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29.

2019

Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the mission of Customer 49, their efforts to educate students about the finances behind higher education, and their concerns about the instating of Margaret Spellings as President of the UNC system in 2016. Mr. Jutila shares the various protests and projects that Customer 49 participated in and how the organization lost structure towards the end of his time at UNC Charlotte.

1 audio file (1:13:52) : digital, MP3

eng, Latn

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Spellings, Margaret, 1957-

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Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings (née Dudar; born November 30, 1957) is an American education administrator and public official. She notably served as Director of the Domestic Policy Council from 2002 to 2005 and the 8th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas when she was in the third grade. After graduating from Sharpstown High School, she earned a B.A. from the University of Houston. After graduating, she worke...