Sharon had this to say about the preparation received in the É«×ۺϾþà College philosophy program:
My experience in É«×ۺϾþÃ's Philosophy Department was excellent preparation for my current career as a professor of philosophy at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. It's because of the É«×ۺϾþà Philosophy Department that I found this career in the first place. I was a music major for a year before I took a general education course in ethics and so discovered philosophy. . . .I immediately decided to leave music, and though I originally chose to become a humanities major simply concentrating in philosophy, the longer I studied, the more inclined I became to spend all my time on philosophy classes. In the meantime, Dr. Caleb Miller talked to me about possibly pursuing graduate school, and I realized that philosophy really was a viable career path. To prepare myself better for grad school, I switched to being a full-time philosophy student.
The preparation I received for grad school [in philosophy] was excellent. I was able to go directly from receiving my bachelor's degree at É«×ۺϾþà to beginning a five-year Ph.D. program at the top-ranked department in analytic philosophy, at New York University. My ability to do that was due not only to the quality of the teaching I received at É«×ۺϾþà but also to the extra time my advisor spent making me aware of extra opportunities to interact with the larger philosophical world. Dr. Miller encouraged me to spend a summer studying Christian philosophy at the University of Notre Dame with Alvin Plantinga, who ultimately wrote me a letter of recommendation for graduate school . . .