Today, at 4 p.m. in Salomon DeCiccio Auditorium, the Undergraduate Council of Students will present President Paxson’s first  State of Brown Address. She will discuss current issues on campus and strategic planning for Brown’s future.

The address is open only to undergraduate students and President Paxson will answer questions from the audience following her speech. In addition, UCS will draw the names of 20 students who will have breakfast with President Paxson this Friday.

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We’re coming up on the 1st anniversary of President Paxson’s election. Would you buy her scarf?

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This week, as the campus prepares for the upcoming inauguration of President Christina Paxson, The Herald is publishing a three-part series, “Shaping the Presidency,” examining the role of the presidency through almost 250 years and 18 previous presidential tenures. These stories take a look at the evolution of the University’s top leadership post and the mantle Paxson has inherited.

As leadership transitions to the Paxson administration and focus shifts to the programs she will put forth, questions regarding the role of a modern-day University president gain salience. What started as supervision of the day-to-day facets of the workings of the school has transitioned to a position of great power in fundraising, framing the direction of the University’s vision, and impacting higher education at as a whole.

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Ian McKellen knows how you feel.  Rumor has it Paxson will reenact this scene on the Main Green directly after Convocation…

On the other hand, those who drown on the way to Orgo might consider it a blessing.

Our new prez already has more school spirit than half of our student body. Check out her scarf-

Here’s a close up-

Photo by Rachel Kaplan / Herald

From orange to Brown, a total upgrade.

Now available as bro tanks

As our soon-to-be President ushers in an era of joy and prosperity (and hopefully some sweet rave parties), we at BlogDailyHerald think it’s only fitting that she get the same t-shirt treatment that Ruth Simmons did. In the spirit of hope and cooperation, and the desire to get some pressure put on the Ratty to shelve corn muffins forever, we offer you something that will make the guys at Threadless go crazy.  Feel free to use it in future campaign slogans (but tell ‘em BlogDH sent ya).

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Beneath portraits of presidents past, President-elect Christina Paxson addressed a packed Sayles Hall this afternoon, promising to uphold “Brown’s dedication to maintaining a terrific undergraduate program… while focusing on the creation of new knowledge.”

Paxson also spoke about her brother, who graduated from Brown in 1975. When he first left Pittsburgh for College Hill, he was a “clean-cut studious kid,” she said. He then returned to their home for Thanksgiving vacation with long hair, new music and radical ideas “about the ethics of eating meat.”

“This is anything but a complacent campus, and that’s a very good thing,” she said.

Paxson acknowledged the huge responsibility of the job, and told the audience she was aware of the “great trust” she’d been given. She also touched on the need to continue a “positive” relationship with the city of Providence and state of Rhode Island.

President Paxson, if  you need any suggestions, we can give you the inside scoop on all things Brunonia — just say the word.

With much excitement and mystery surrounding the presidential search, the University announced today the selection of Christina H. Paxson as the 19^th president of Brown. Paxson currently serves as the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics. According to Princeton’s website, Paxson established the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the school in 2000, a program that grants certificates in both health and health policy. In addition, Paxson serves as a senior editor of The Future of Children, a publication that derives from a collaboration between the Woodrow Wilson School and the Brookings Institution. Besides her work at Princeton, she is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and primarily focuses her research on health, economic development and public policy. Paxson graduated from Swarthmore in 1982 and received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1987. And she’s a woman!

Ra Ra Brunonia!

Christina Hull Paxson, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was named the 19th President of Brown University by Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 at noon in Sayles Hall.

“If she could make Brown any happier, I think we’d burst a thermometer,” said Tisch.

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