Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley. University of California, San Francisco.
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Elisabeth Zinser
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Previously she was the chancellor of the Lexington campus of the University of Kentucky (1995–2001), and the first female president of the University of Idaho, serving from 1989–1995 in Moscow. She holds a bachelor"s degree from Stanford, a master"s from University of California, San Francisco, and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She also received an Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Prior to Idaho, Zinser received national attention in 1988 when she was named the seventh president of Gallaudet University in Washington, District of Columbia. She served for just six days, from March 6–11, then resigned due to protests over her selection in what came to be known as the "Deaf President Now" protest at Gallaudet, saying that the protest was "a monumental event in the history of deaf culture." The protesters thanked her for making a graceful exit, noting that she had become an "innocent victim and an unfortunate target" of the their collective anger.
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A native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, she is a former board member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
