Nido Qubein

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rdf:langString Nido R. Qubein

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rdf:langString President of High Point University

rdf:langString Nido Qubein is a Lebanese American businessman and motivational speaker. He has been president of High Point University since 2005. He received his Associate's degree in business from Mount Olive College, his bachelor degree in human relations from High Point University in 1970, and a Master of Science in business education from the the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan School of Business & Economics in 1973. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters in humanities degree from the the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Qubein is the founder and chairman emeritus of the National Speakers Association Foundation. He has served as chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company since 2001 and on the board of directors of BB&T (now Truist Financial) since 1990 and La-Z-Boy Corporation since 2006. Since 2005, when Qubein became the seventh president of High Point University, by 2020, the school had nearly tripled both the number of faculty and its traditional undergraduate enrollment, adding four academic schools. Qubein is notable for being among the higher-paid college presidents in the United States, earning $2.9 million a year in 2013. In 2016, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Qubein was the third-highest donor university president in the country, from 2006 to 2016. He committed $10 million to High Point University. In 2017 Qubein became a board member for nThrive, a healthcare technology company focused on financial and operational performance.