NEW: Brown Extends President Paxson's Contract to 2025
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NEW: Brown Extends President Paxson's Contract to 2025
“Over the last eight years, I have come to love the Brown community — faculty, students, staff, and alumni — and I’m really thrilled to extend my service to this exceptional institution. I am proud to be a part of the deep intellectual engagement, creativity and shared commitment to service that I see every day at Brown. Collaborating with individuals across the Brown extended family has been an extraordinary experience, and I must express my deep gratitude to the trustees and fellows for their unending support,” said Paxson.
The extension was approved by a unanimous vote by the Corporation of Brown University.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Now in her eighth year as Brown’s president, Christina Paxson is a proven leader of extraordinary ability, enormous energy, unshakeable values and boundless passion for Brown. Her impact on the University has been transformational, leading Brown forward with vision and purpose, setting a standard for excellence in all that Brown does, and elevating the institution’s standing among the world’s great universities,” said Chancellor Samuel Mencoff.
About Paxson
Paxson has served as Brown University’s 19th president and professor of economics and public policy since 2012.
While at Brown, Paxson launched the University’s 10-year strategic plan, "Building on Distinction: A New Plan for Brown," in 2014.
According to the University, in the five complete fiscal years after the launch of the plan, Brown added about 90 faculty members engaged in scholarship and teaching, invested $528 million in capital projects and awarded $927 million in scholarship aid.
In Fiscal Year 2019, Brown expended $196 million in grant funding toward cutting-edge research across the humanities and the life, physical and social sciences.
Brown’s annual research spending has grown by nearly 30%, with the grant portfolio in the Division of Biology and Medicine has increased 109% since 2013
Prior to her appointment at Brown, Paxson was Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs and the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Paxson served as vice president of the American Economic Association, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is vice-chair of the board of the Association of American Universities.
In January 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston named Paxson to its board of directors, and in 2019, appointed her vice-chair.
Paxson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, and earned her Ph.D. in economics at Columbia University.