Linda Oubré '80

Linda Oubré '80, Ed.D. (Life Member), has been appointed Whittier College’s 15th president and will take office on July 1, 2018. She will be the first person of color to lead the institution, which was founded in 1887.

A native of Los Angeles, Oubré has served as the Dean of the College of Business at San Francisco State University (SFSU) for the past six years, leading approximately 6,100 undergraduate and graduate students and 120 faculty in 10 academic departments.

Prior to SFSU, Oubré was executive director of corporate relations and business development, and chief diversity officer for the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. At UC Davis, she oversaw the school’s corporate relations and business development start-up effort and led the development and implementation of an enrollment growth, marketing, and visibility strategy for the Bay Area MBA program.

Oubré earned her B.A. in economics at UCLA, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an Ed.D. in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania. She will be joined in Whittier by her husband Nathaniel Oubré '81, a senior executive at Kaiser Permanente.

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