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nstitute of Philosophic Studies doctoral candidate Jenny Fast, MA ’14, switched from district-run public to private classical school in seventh grade, and thereby stumbled into a new world. She and her husband, Francis Fast, MA ’13, both received their bachelor’s degrees from Thomas Aquinas College in California, where they studied under a few people who helped lead them toward UD for graduate studies, including Professor of Humanities and Graduate Director of Classical Education Jeff Lehman, MA ’99 PhD ’02, and Associate Professor of Philosophy Matthew Walz, Ph.D., MBA ’19. “UD prepares you for a certain kind of life as an educator,” explained Jenny Fast. “I was happy to find the university because I had wanted to give back to the kind of education I’d received, and those professors recommended UD because of the habits of the intellectual life it seeks to instill in you and the way in which it positions you to extend that life to others.” Francis Fast, now the assistant headmaster at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, has worked in administrative positions at Great Hearts Academies as well, including supervising Great Hearts teachers in UD’s classical education program, working closely with Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Humanities Matt Post, PhD ’15, and with Lehman. He has also taught at Founders, as has Jenny.
