Donald Blun Straus | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 28, 1916 |
| Died | September 3, 2007 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | A.B. and M.B.A. Harvard University |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Allen |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Edith Abraham Straus Percy Selden Straus |
| Family | Ida Straus (grandmother) Isidor Straus (grandfather) Abraham Abraham (grandfather) |
Donald Blun Straus (June 28, 1916–September 3, 2007) was an American educator and an executive in public service. Straus, who held A.B. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University, served as president of the American Arbitration Association, executive vice president of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Institute for Advanced Study.[1] An early advocate of online education and public referendums via computers and the Web, he taught an online course in "Democracy in the 21st Century" for Connected Education in the late-1980s and early-1990s. He served as faculty associate and was a life trustee at the College of the Atlantic in Maine.