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30 Years of Ph.D.s

The Department of Philosophy at the OB体育官网 is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the first Ph.D. it awarded, and is pleased to acknowledge and honor the careers of the three who were the first to receive the degree: Christopher Adair-Toteff, Kostas Kalimtzis, and Nancy Stanlick.  The Department had a history that included a successful undergraduate and Master鈥檚 program, during the period of the sixties, when the university as a whole was new. The university was originally a liberal arts college with a cluster of professional programs, and oriented to undergraduate studies, with a novel interdisciplinary program for the students鈥� first two years. The core faculty was recruited during this era, and established a program with a strong emphasis on the history of philosophy. The university itself shifted, for reasons related to the redefinition of its 鈥渞ole and scope鈥� during the seventies, to a more applied orientation, which restricted new Ph.D. programs to applied pro