One Times opinion piece by Howard philosophy professors partially blamed the closure on a lack of student interest. Yet students do care deeply about the department. In fact, we, along with supportive Howard faculty members, are the ones trying to save it. It took a matter of hours for me to mobilize more than 70 students in a GroupMe chat to create a letter writing campaign to the university Provost and another day for dozens of Alumni to pledge their time and support. Within a few days we received more than 6,000 signatures and endorsements from around the world for our group letter to the Provost.