Editing Brown University (section)

===Presidents===
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| caption1 = Brown's 2nd President, [[Jonathan Maxcy]], was the first alum to serve as president.
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Nineteen individuals have served as presidents of the university since its founding in 1764. Since 2012, [[Christina Hull Paxson]] has served as president. Paxson had previously served as dean of [[Princeton University|Princeton University's]] [[Princeton School of Public and International Affairs|School of Public and International Affairs]] and chair of Princeton's economics department.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |date=2012-03-02 |title=A Princeton Dean Is Named to Lead Brown |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/education/christina-hull-paxson-to-lead-brown-university.html |access-date=2021-04-10 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024733/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/education/christina-hull-paxson-to-lead-brown-university.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Paxson's immediate predecessor, [[Ruth Simmons]], is noted as the first [[African American]] president of an Ivy League institution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plomin |first=Joe |date=2001-10-16 |title=Ivy league appoints first black president |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/oct/16/internationaleducationnews.highereducation1 |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=May 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509213422/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/oct/16/internationaleducationnews.highereducation1 |url-status=live}}</ref> Other presidents of note include academic, [[Vartan Gregorian]]; and philosopher and economist, [[Francis Wayland]].