1. In March 2012, Paxson was selected as the 19th president of Brown University.
16 Facts About Christina Paxson
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Christina Paxson officially succeeded Ruth Simmons on July 1,2012, and was inaugurated on October 27,2012.
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Christina Paxson was advised by Joseph Altonji and her dissertation involved analyzing the effects of consumer interest rates on the consumer credit market.
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In 2000, Christina Paxson founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton, an interdisciplinary research center based in the Woodrow Wilson School.
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Christina Paxson was the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.
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Christina Paxson has been a Senior Editor of The Future of Children, an interdisciplinary journal that works to build a bridge between cutting edge social science research and the policy community.
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Christina Paxson has sustained undergraduate financial aid as the fastest-growing area of Brown's budget by increasing scholarships for low-income families and eliminating loans from university-awarded financial aid packages, as part of The Brown Promise, in addition to Brown's Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion action plan.
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Christina Paxson has overseen an expansion of Brown's academic, performing arts, and residential facilities.
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Expansion of Brown's physical footprint under Christina Paxson's leadership has been controversial, at times spurring criticism from community organizations and preservation groups.
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Christina Paxson has been a member of the Kol Emet congregation, a Jewish Reconstructionist synagogue, committed to the growth of a spiritually and intellectually engaging Judaism.
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In 2013, Christina Paxson wrote a New Republic op-ed, arguing for ongoing relevance of the humanities from an economist's perspective.
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Christina Paxson has maintained other institutional affiliations: in addition to being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
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In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christina Paxson penned a New York Times op-ed and appeared on CNN, outlining her views on the importance of reopening colleges safely in the fall of 2020.
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In 2018, Christina Paxson received an honorary doctorate from Williams College.
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Christina Paxson is married to Ari Gabinet, who works at Oppenheimer Funds, and has two children, Nicholas and Benjamin.
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Christina Paxson has been a member of the Kol Emet congregation, a Jewish Reconstructionist synagogue, committed to the growth of a spiritually and intellectually engaging Judaism.