John Hawthorne (epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, early modern) will be staying at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, despite the bid by Princeton.

This must mark a really dramatic change in fortunes: who in 1980 would have guessed the day would come when the State University of New Jersey would retain philosophy faculty against Princeton, and would, in fact, dominate Princeton (and most other departments in the U.S., with the exception of NYU) in some of the central areas of the discipline?

This is perhaps the clearest indication of the extent to which the academic world of the 1960s–the one dominated by the Ivy League, Berkeley, Michigan, Chicago, Stanford, and perhaps one or two others–is no more.