Donna Edna Shalala (surname pronounced /ʃəˈleɪlə/ shə-LAY-lə; born February 14, 1941) has served as president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2001.
Prior to her appointment as University of Miami President, she served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President...
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Donna Edna Shalala (surname pronounced /ʃəˈleɪlə/ shə-LAY-lə; born February 14, 1941) has served as president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2001.
Prior to her appointment as University of Miami President, she served for eight years as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008.
Shalala was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Lebanese immigrant parents and has a twin sister, Diane Fritel. She graduated from West Tech High School and received her bachelor's degree in 1962 from Western College for Women (which, in 1976, was merged with Miami University in Oxford, Ohio).
She served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps in Iran from 1962 to 1964, where she worked with other volunteers to construct an agricultural college.
She received a Master's and then, in 1970, a Doctorate degree from the Maxwell...
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