Here. A couple of additional things I told the reporter that didn't make it in to the story, as inevitably happens. First, I gave her an example of a program that went from the low 40s to the top 10, over a period of a decade, and without a $75 million donation (though quite a lot of university money), namely, University of Southern California. Second, I noted that a distinctive, and to my mind admirable, feature of the Johns Hopkins Department is that it takes history of philosophy seriously, and already has a leadership position in, for example the study of modern philosophy through Kant and post-Kantian German Idealism. I hope that's a feature of the program they will sustain going forward. Third, I ventured the opinion that they will be at least a top 20 department in ten years of they grow from 13 to 22, while maintaing the current level of faculty quality; the fact is, it's a small department relative to other major research universities, which often have 20 or more faculty members, rather than Hopkins's 13.
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