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    Sylvia Mathews Burwell

    Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

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  1. Sylvia Mary Burwell (née Mathews; born June 23, 1965) is an American government and non-profit executive who was the 15th president of American University from June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2024. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president.

  2. President Burwell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Government from Harvard University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

  3. Aug 8, 2023 · Sylvia led AU’s engagement in higher education, serving on the board of the American Council on Education, and she worked with faculty, staff, and student leaders as AU crafted a new policy and values statement on freedom of expression.

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  4. Jul 1, 2017 · Throngs of people began gathering just before 9 a.m. The woman they were so eager to meet, AU president Sylvia Mathews Burwell, had arrived for her first day on the job—on a bicycle, with a pack strapped to her back—without fanfare an hour earlier.

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  5. Sylvia Mary Burwell (née Mathews; born June 23, 1965) is an American government and non-profit executive who was the 15th president of American University from June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2024. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president.

  6. Aug 8, 2023 · Sylvia M. Burwell, a former Obama administration secretary, is set to step down as American University's president at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.

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  8. Sylvia Mathews Burwell was born in 1965 in Hinton, West Virginia. She graduated with a degree in government from Harvard University in 1987 and went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, graduating with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.

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