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American psychologist and academic (born 1961)
Elliot Lee Hirshman
(born February 21, 1961) is an American
psychologist
and academic who is the president of
Stevenson University
in
Owings Mills
,
Maryland
since July 3, 2017. Prior to Stevenson University he served as president at
San Diego State University
and served as the provost and senior vice president of the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
.
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Education
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Hirshman earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from
Yale University
in 1983. He received a master's degree (1984) and a PhD in cognitive psychology (1987) from
UCLA
. While at UCLA he was a member of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab and
Cogfog
.
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He then took a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at
New York University
.
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Career
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He taught in the psychology department at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
from 1989 to 2000. He chaired the psychology departments at the
University of Colorado at Denver
(2000?2002) and at
George Washington University
(2002?2005), where he later served as chief research officer (2005?2008). From 2008 to 2011 he was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
. He became the eighth president of SDSU in 2011. SDSU, founded in 1897, is a part of the
California State University
system; it has 36,000 students and a faculty and staff of 7,000. It offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees through eight academic colleges and is an
NCAA
Division One school offering 19 sports.
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During his tenure he is credited with greatly improving the university's reputation and rankings, fundraising, and graduation rates.
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In March 2017 he announced his intention to resign from SDSU, effective June 2017, to become president of
Stevenson University
in Maryland.
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Personal
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He is married to Jeri Hirshman; they have a son and a daughter.
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