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John Sexton
by Academy of Achievement
As a college student, John Sexton barely scraped together a 2.1 GPA. Today, he is the pioneering president of New York University, setting it on an ambitious path to become the U.S.'s leading global university. The son of an alcoholic -- by age ten, he was searching for his lawyer-father in the gutters of Brooklyn -- Sexton was an academic late bloomer. He spent 15 years as the volunteer coach of a high school girls' debate team, taking them to two national championships, and only then did he enter law school, graduating at age 37 from Harvard. From that moment, his rise was meteoric. He landed a coveted clerkship with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren Burger, and, less than ten years out of law school, he was picked as Dean of the New York University Law School. Under Sexton's leadership, NYU became one of the nation's premier law schools and Sexton himself pioneered a new form of global law study. In 2002, he became NYU's president, and also served on the B
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As a college student, John Sexton barely scraped together a 2.1 GPA. Today, he is the pioneering president of New York University, setting it on an ambitious path to become the U.S.'s leading global university. The son of an alcoholic -- by age ten, he was searching for his lawyer-father in the...
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John Sexton (Audio)
As a college student, John Sexton barely scraped together a 2.1 GPA. Today, he is the pioneering president of New York University, setting it on an ambitious path to become the U.S.'s leading global university. The son of an alcoholic -- by age ten, he was searching for his lawyer-father in the...
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As a college student, John Sexton barely scraped together a 2.1 GPA. Today, he is the pioneering president of New York University, setting it on an ambitious path to become the U.S.'s leading global university. The son of an alcoholic -- by age ten, he was searching for his lawyer-father in the gutters of Brooklyn -- Sexton was an academic late bloomer. He spent 15 years as the volunteer coach of a high school girls' debate team, taking them to two national championships, and only then did he enter law school, graduating at age 37 from Harvard. From that moment, his rise was meteoric. He landed a coveted clerkship with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren Burger, and, less than ten years out of law school, he was picked as Dean of the New York University Law School. Under Sexton's leadership, NYU became one of the nation's premier law schools and Sexton himself pioneered a new form of global law study. In 2002, he became NYU's president, and also served on the B
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