OutRival Presents The New Normal Ep 5: National University President Dr. Mark Milliorn

OutRival Presents: The New Normal · Aug 20, 2026 · 1h 17m

Rubén Harris sat down with Dr. Mark Milliron, President of National University, on campus in San Diego, to talk about running a university where the competition isn't other institutions. It's poverty. Mark grew up in a family of nine kids with 25 foster kids rotating through the house, bused tables to pay his way through Mesa Community College, earned two degrees at Arizona State and a doctorate at UT Austin, then built a career that spans the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an early board seat at Western Governors University, corporate work at Oracle, and the chairmanship of the Trellis…