I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
I was a Political Science major.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.