Robert Sexton, Ph.D.

Career Achievement

Robert Sexton ‘found himself’ and his future while at CLU.  Robert, a 1982 graduate, entered CLU as an average student without a true sense of direction or purpose and, by his own estimation, without the motivation to get there.  It was the lure of a class gathered beneath the orange trees of CLU that first drew Sexton to his eventual economics major.  Sexton said, "Professor Leo Rosenberg took a special interest in me.  He had confidence in me.” 

Once “pushed” by a professor who cared about him, Sexton directed his efforts toward his chosen field of economics, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1980.  Currently a professor of economics at Pepperdine University, he has received an unprecedented four Merit Accelerations for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, recognition as 1991 Professor of the Year, as well as other teaching awards and fellowships.

Citing “the training and the value-centered education that I received at Cal Lutheran… [as] the very foundation of my care,” Sexton now aids others in building similar solid foundations.