Compiled by the Drew University Archives Staff
Updated July 2005; Also available in PDF
THE AQUINAS FACULTY SEMINAR 1970-
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I think it was at Drew that I first heard the word 'interdisciplinary'- about seven years ago. Educational procedures seem to me to be genuinely interdisciplinary only if they involve not merely a coming together or confrontation of different departments, but also their interpenetrating one another. I have felt the impulse towards this interpenetration as something in the Drew atmosphere.”
---Owen Barfield, Aquinas Visiting Professor, 1971-72; remarks at Commencement 1972.
The Aquinas Program, of which the Aquinas Faculty Seminar was the heart, was launched in the fall of 1970. The brain child of several creative Drew faculty minds under the leadership of the late Dean of the Graduate School , Bard Thompson, its realization was made possible by a substantial grant from the Aquinas Fund, of which former University President Robert F. Oxnam (now deceased) was a trustee.
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