Word: academicized
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A lifelong academic who studied his way to a summa cum laude College degree during the tumultuous '60s, Lewis says he evaluates all projects in light of their contribution to the College's educational mission.
Lewis is the only one of seven deans of the College since the 1940s to also be a professional academic--the other was dean-professor May, who is now Warren Professor of American History.
This is a big mandate, even for a guy who was doing trigonometry in first grade. But Goff, who is described by friends and colleagues as a visionary, has a combination of artistic, academic and personal talents that uniquely equip him to take up the struggle for racial equality.
But more than his individual academic or musical talents, it is the multiplicity of ways he has to achieve his vision of racial equality, bolstered by religious faith and sheer personal presence, that sets him apart.
After spurning the hard sciences, Goff's firstcollege academic interest was internationalrelations, stemming from his high school work inModel United Nations.