Steve Jobs’ widow named Stanford University trustee

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple Inc’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, will be joining her alma mater Stanford University’s Board of Trustees as of October 1. She will serve for 5 years at the elite university where she received her masters degree in business administration in 1991, Stanford said on Wednesday. The Jobs family has deep connections to Stanford University. In one of the university’s notable commencement speeches, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs recounted in 2005 his experience dropping out of Reed College in 1972. …