MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 27--LISTS NOT UPDATED SINCE OCTOBER 27: PLEASE POST ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS IN COMMENTS BELOW. THESE LISTS WILL BE FINALIZED WITHIN THE WEEK. THANKS FOR ALL THE FEEDBACK AND HELP.
I'm now feeling more hopeful that we will be able to complete a new set of PGR surveys for 2008 later this fall. Accordingly, I'm making available a draft list of faculties for review and correction: Download pgr_faculty_lists_2008.rtf
A few points that deserve special notice:
1. Departments are listed alphabetically by name and region (U.S., Canada, U.K., Australasia).
2. All departments that ranked in 2006 are included here (with the exception of Florida, which has suspended its PhD program). Faculties surveyed in 2006 that did not score high enough to rank are not included this year, unless changes in the interim seem likely to alter that result. Several faculties not surveyed recently (or ever before) are included in this round: Nebraska, UC Santa Cruz, Utah.
3. If your faculty is not included, and you would like it to be part of the survey, please send me a faculty list (organized like those in the document, above) and I will submit it to the Advisory Board to vote on inclusion. The criterion for inclusion is that the faculty seems to have a chance to rank in the "top 50" in the US, "the top 15" in the UK, "the top 5" in Australasia, or the "top 5" in Canada. (In 2006, all departments with scores of 2.2 or higher were ranked--the cut-off for 2008 will likely be similar.)
4. As in 2006, faculties not included in the survey will still be included in the specialty rankings where appropriate, based either on the 2006 results (assuming no major changes since then) or on the judgment of the Advisory Board.
5. The category of "affiliated" faculty has been replaced with the cateagory "Cognate Faculty and Philosophers in Other Units," for reasons discussed on the blog this past summer. Feedback on whether "cognate" faculty are really available for work with philosophy PhD students is especially welcome.
6. Also very helpful would be information on faculty who are slated to retire at the end of the 2008-09 academic year.
7. Only faculty at the affected program may post corrections, below. DO NOT E-MAIL ME CORRECTIONS. Please post them below, so that efforts will not be duplicated. Occasionally, there are questions that require some discretion in terms of how to count faculty; for those purposes, faculty may e-mail me. ONLY SIGNED COMMENTS WILL BE POSTED BELOW.
With luck, we'll finalize the faculty lists in the next few weeks, and be in a position to conduct the surveys by early December, with results on-line come January. That, in any case, is the optimistic scenario we're aiming for.
Thanks for your help.
