Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 in philosophy from Boston University and is president emeritus of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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Robert McDermott
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Career
He has taught at Manhattanville College (1964-1971) and is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Philosophy at Baruch College, City University of New York (1971-1990). He was secretary of the American Academy of Religion (1968-1971) and secretary treasurer of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (1972-1976). He has written a number of books, as well as essays published in scholarly journals and anthologies.
His essays have appeared in International Philosophical Quarterly, Cross Currents, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Philosophy East and West.
He was the first president in its history who filled out his terms of office without resigning or being dismissed. He was able to steer a very small and vulnerable institution away from the very edge of dissolution in bankruptcy into the thriving institution that it is today with an enrollment increase of nearly fourfold since his resignation.
Achievements
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With Arthur Zajonc, McDermott is co-founder of The Owen Barfield Graduate School of Sunbridge College, is the founding chair of the board of Sophia Project (two homes in Oakland, California, for mothers and children at risk of homelessness), and has been chair of the board and president of many other institutions. His term as president of CIIS marked an extraordinary achievement.
