It's the very core of our life's commitments. Many of the Plan II theses that I supervise will be written by students that I first taught as freshmen, and worked with further in an upper-division literature class or junior seminar. This continuity and integration truly makes the Plan II experience very much like that of a small liberal arts college. I have found a Plan II education to be the ideal background for a career in publishing. It has opened a lot of doors for me.
Employers respect it.
But, more important, my experience with Plan II taught me that you can always design your own program, not just in school, but in every area of life. Teaching in the program for the past twenty-five years has been a learning experience for me as much as a teaching experience. Plan II alumni care about the program and, along with current students and faculty, they form a genuine community that has spread throughout the country and is making a mark for the better on American society. It is where I consider my current life to have begun. The emphasis on critical thinking, on writing, and on liberal education was extremely helpful.