“Somebody who listens to educators,” Biden said, “not just speaks to us.” She asked the crowd what they wanted in their next secretary of education, then dashed off the stage to bring the microphone around and amplify some of the answers. One person said they wanted the next education secretary to be an ethnic minority. Randall Miller, president of the City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee, said he’d like to see someone who will reverse the trend of more and more part-time professors.