Donald E. Ross is the President Emeritus at Lynn University. He is also the founder and former president of Wilmington University.

Education

He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the

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Career

Donald E. Ross founded Wilmington University and served as that institution's president until 1977. Donald E. Ross visited the campus of the struggling Marymount College in

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, to purchase its library. Ross was so inspired by the school that he decided to stay and help it succeed. In 1971, Donald E. Ross was named president of Marymount, and in 1974 the college was renamed as the College of Boca Raton. In the late 1980s, the school transitioned from a two-year to a four-year school, and in 1991 it was renamed Lynn University. He retired as Lynn's president in 2006, assuming the title of President Emeritus. In 2003–2004, he was paid a salary of over $5,000,000, making him at the time the highest-paid college or university president in the nation.

Recognition

He was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame in 2009 for creating varsity athletics program at Lynn and being the guiding force behind Lynn’s becoming member of SSC in 1997.

Personal life

He has a son named

Kevin M. Ross Kevin M. Ross is an American academic administrator. He is president of Lynn University. Ross became the institution's fifth president on July 1, 2006, succeeding his father, Donald E. Ross, who was president for 35 years. He is a founding boa ...

who succeeded him in office as Lynn's president in 2006.

References

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