About John Sexton

• John Sexton is President Emeritus, the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School's Dean Emeritus, having served as Dean for 14 years. He joined the Law School's faculty in 1981, and was named the School's Dean in 1988 and served until 2002. He was named the University's President in 2001, and served until January 2016.

• He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is past Chair of the American Council on Education, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities of New York. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2003-2006) and Chair of the Federal Reserve Systems Council of Chairs (2006).

• He served as a Board Member for the National Association of Securities Dealers (1996-1998), and was Founding Chair of the Board of NASD Dispute Resolution (2000-2002). He also serves on the Board of the Institute of International Education. While Dean of the Law School, he was President of the Association of American Law Schools.

• President Sexton received a B.A. in History (1963) from Fordham College; an M.A. in Comparative Religion (1965) and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion (1978) Fordham University; and a J.D. magna cum laude (1979) from Harvard Law School.

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A few highlights:

• NYU’s international stature has grown tremendously, as demonstrated both by the fact that NYU is the first U.S. university in 15 years to both send the greatest number of students abroad and attract the greatest number of international students, and by the fact that in 2012 NYU was the #1 U.S. university searched by international students through the College Board.
• NYU was the first major U.S. research university to create degree-granting, liberal arts universities in the Middle East and China, campuses over which NYU retains full academic authority and which are accompanied by guarantees of academic freedom.
• NYU rose in all major rankings, nationally and internationally.
• Nearly $6 billion was raised, and the endowment more
  than tripled.
• The merger with the Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn restored engineering as an academic discipline at NYU after an absence of
  40 years.
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• In 2015, awarded the TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence, which recognizes outstanding leadership on the part of a college or university president or chancellor.
• In 2015, awarded the Institute of International Education’s Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments in government and education.
• In 2012, awarded the NASPA President’s Award, which is given annually to a college or university leader who has, over a sustained period of time, advanced the quality of student life on campus by supporting student affairs staff and programs.
• In 2008, named a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.
• In November 2009, Time magazine named Sexton one of the 10 Best College Presidents.
• Since 2006, NYU has received the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction form the Corporation for National and Community Service six times. 
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