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Servus! Lessons learned in presidential leadership the Bavarian way: Laura Trombley at TEDxFulbright

889 views · Published 6 May 2014 · 14:30 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Germany was a place Laura Trombley thought she knew reasonably well having studied in Heidelberg during college. Through a series of entirely synchronistic events, she wound up teaching at the only private university in Germany, deep in the heart of Bavaria. What she learned there has served her well as a college president.


Member, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. President, Pitzer College. The bar was raised in higher education the day Laura Trombley stepped into the driver's seat. An acclaimed Mark Twain scholar, she directs Pitzer College with a combination of sheer ambition and brazen intellect, achieving gold-standard certification in conservancy, promoting new and rising academic fields, and upholding the importance of international experience and appreciation.


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