Philosophy M.A. program approved at AUC

With a 95% “yes” vote, our proposed M.A. program was approved by the University Senate this morning. It will start in September 2013. The orientation of the program, matching that of the faculty, will be continental (I almost used scare quotes but decided not to) with quite a bit of Islamic philosophy (we have three specialists in that area).

One of the keys to making this happen was a very strong outside review that we received in late 2010 from two external referees.

I started at AUC in 2000, and the M.A. program was the topic of my very first department meeting. Or rather, my first unit meeting– Philosophy was a unit of English & Comparative Literature here until 2004. And now we are double their size.