{"id":1960,"date":"2025-07-16T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:13:17","slug":"political-science-professor-don-dugi-celebrated-after-five-decades-at-transylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/summer-2025\/political-science-professor-don-dugi-celebrated-after-five-decades-at-transylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Political science professor Don Dugi celebrated after five decades at Transylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-style-default\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;min-height:500px;aspect-ratio:unset;\" id=\"cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-charcoal-background-color has-background-dim-10 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"33% 21%\" style=\"object-position:33% 21%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5-350x247.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5-730x515.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5-810x571.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Last-Lecture-Don-Dugi-5-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cover-header is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-standard-condensed-font-family\" id=\"h-political-science-professor-don-dugi-celebrated-after-five-decades-at-transylvania\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Political science professor Don Dugi celebrated after five decades at Transylvania<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-f0a00cf9-7fff-b1af-341e-c8cef6c167a0\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\"><div><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-neue-haas-grotesk-text-font-family\">by John Friedlein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">When political science professor Don Dugi started at Transylvania University, Gerald Ford was president, people kept rocks as pets and the school year was divided into quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recalled the campus uproar just two years after he started, when the school proposed switching to semesters. Students gathered on the steps of the Old Morrison administration building \u2014 \u201cWe want quarters! Keep your change,\u201d one protester&#8217;s sign read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transylvania University 2025 Last Lecture: Professor Don Dugi\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vinTB7j1QVI?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dugi has since witnessed \u2014 and helped shape \u2014 decades of transformation at the university. This spring, the campus celebrated his half-century of service with events including a luncheon and slideshow tribute during Alumni Weekend\u2019s Dugi Fest, his \u201cLast Lecture\u201d to the Class of 2025, and a $1 million Don Dugi Endowment. The city of Lexington also proclaimed April 26 as Don Dugi Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dugi, who started at Transylvania shortly after completing his Ph.D. at Purdue University, has influenced generations of students. He has no confirmation that he\u2019s taught the grandchildren of his former students \u2014 \u201cbut it\u2019s possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, he likes semester-long classes better. He had to teach 10 different courses his first year, for one thing. For another, a quarter isn\u2019t enough time for students to really engage in a subject matter. That ties into his attitude toward serious reading \u2014 as opposed to the shallowness of so much social media claiming the attention of young people these days. \u201cIn order to think deeply, you have to read deeply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignleft\"><blockquote><p>In order to think deeply, you have to read&nbsp;deeply.<\/p><cite>Don Dugi<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Moving out of his office, he gave away a stack of extra books like Plato&#8217;s &#8220;Republic&#8221; to students or whoever else might benefit from them. Reading the Greek philosopher, in fact, was a fundamental part of Dugi&#8217;s theory classes, where he wanted students to develop analytic skills and learn philosophical building blocks that would be transferable far beyond a political science course. Not only did they find out what Plato said, but they delved into why he said it. It was hard work and required attentiveness, but ontological idealism isn\u2019t something you can grasp by watching a TikTok video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Thinking for yourself and discovering the foundation of things can help a graduate when it comes to law school. Transylvania students have gone on to success, including a perfect law school admission rate for those recommended by the university. Some have gone on to study at institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and Duke. Dugi teaches a workshop to assist them with the admissions process, including the LSAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a lot of good students over the years who are doing a lot of good things,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, he doesn\u2019t take credit for their success. \u201cThat\u2019s their activity,\u201d Dugi said. \u201cIt\u2019s not someplace where you can see the fruits of your labor.\u201d A native Texan raised on a ranch, Dugi said he prefers gardening, where results are more tangible \u201cWith gardening, you can see the fruits of your labor \u2014 literally.\u201d During summers on campus, he has been known to share baskets of fresh okra with colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back when Dugi attended college himself, he remained in Texas to pursue his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees at St. Mary\u2019s University in San Antonio. Then he went to Purdue for a Ph.D. in political science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dugi has spent summers at other universities over the years in a variety of roles, and he had opportunities to move on. But he and his wife like Lexington, which he called a good place to raise a family. Plus, he&#8217;s of the opinion that wherever you are, you should try your best and be happy there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\"><blockquote><p>My code is to leave people in places objectively better off for my having been&nbsp;there.<\/p><cite>Don Dugi<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI live life by a code, not by any grand philosophy or religion or anything like that. My code is to leave people in places objectively better off for my having been there. And so if that&#8217;s the case, wherever I am doesn&#8217;t matter so much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dugi\u2019s efforts have been well recognized with accolades include Kentucky Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the Bingham Award for Excellence in Teaching and a Bingham-Young Professorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media have also often sought him out to discuss politics \u2014 from The Washington Post to Business Lexington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Transylvania, Dugi has served in various positions outside the classroom. He advised the Student Government Association, supervised a legislative internship program and sponsored both College Republicans and Democrats, for instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dugi is a familiar face at campus events as well \u2014 from afternoon poetry readings to major campus lectures. He said it\u2019s a way for faculty to set a good example for students; also, even after being a professor for 50 years, he\u2019s still excited about better understanding his world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-730x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2006\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-730x486.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-810x539.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/third-and-broadway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/07\/Retirement-Lunch-34.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re supposed to be a community of inquiry, and there are all kinds of things to learn about,\u201d Dugi added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In honor of his dedication, U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey from Kentucky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CREC-2025-04-24\/pdf\/CREC-2025-04-24-pt1-PgE333-5.pdf\">remarked on his career<\/a> in Congress this past April. \u201cMr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues, and every student who has been taught by him, to join me in expressing our deepest gratitude to Dr. Don Dugi for his outstanding service to Transylvania University and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and his enduring impact on students\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group header-divider is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-more-from-this-issue\">More from this issue<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex 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