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Compensate Graduate Students for Service Work (guest post by Carolina Flores et al)

The following is a guest post * by Carolina Flores (Rutgers), Milana Kostic (UCSD), Angela Sun (Michigan), Elise Woodard (Michigan), and Jingyi Wu (UC Irvine), graduate students in philosophy who comprise the organizing team of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP). (more…)

Seven Principles of Humane PhD Advising (guest post by Eric Schwitzgebel)

The following is a guest post * by Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside). It originally appeared at his blog, The Splintered Mind.

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Virtual Dissertation-Writing Groups for Philosophy Grad Students

Once again, Joshua Smart (Ohio State) is organizing virtual writing groups for philosophy students working on their dissertations. (more…)

How to Teach (Philosophy): Readings Sought

What readings about teaching would you assign to philosophy graduate students? (more…)

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Seeking Organizers

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), a 104-chapter network of philosophy graduate students “that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy,” is seeking to hire two international organizers. (more…)

APA & other Academic Organizations Issue Statement on Tax Bill

The American Philosophical Association (APA) today joined with 34 other academic organizations to issue a public statement opposing the provision in the tax reform bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would result in graduate school tuition waivers counting as taxable income. They currently do not. (more…)

Mentoring Workshop For Women Graduate Students In Philosophy

Athena in Action is a networking and mentoring workshop for graduate student women in philosophy. Applications are now being accepted for its third annual workshop, which will be taking place this summer. (more…)

Tax Proposal Would Make Getting a PhD in the US Very Expensive (Multiple Updates)

The tax plan introduced by Republicans in the U.S. Congress last week would have drastic effects on graduate education in the United States, according to reports at The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

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Revisiting “Grad Students: What Would You Tell Your Prof(s), But Can’t?”

About a year ago I asked, “Graduate students, what would you like to tell your professor(s) right now, but can’t?” (more…)

The Publication Emergency (guest post by J. David Velleman)

The following is a guest post * by J. David Velleman, professor of philosophy at New York University. It discusses the problems that arise from graduate students publishing more and more, and presents a pair of suggestions for how to improve matters. (more…)

Graduate Student Input on Hiring

What input do graduate students have in hiring decisions in your department? (more…)

Unscientific Poll Results: Nearly 40% Of Respondents Take Out Loans To Get PhD In Philosophy

A couple of weeks ago I set up a poll asking about whether philosophy graduate students took out student loans while in their PhD programs. This is, of course, not a scientifically sound way of getting at the actual numbers, as the respondents are self-selecting and there is no way to tell if they are at all representative of the broader population. (more…)

Should Graduate Students Referee?

Should graduate students be called upon to serve as referees for journals? I was stunned a few years back to learn of the growing use of graduate students to serve as referees—stunned until I remembered the (arguably) over-publishing practice of our profession. But now the practice of enlisting grad-student referees—to my limited and aging eyes—appears to be g..

What Graduate Students In Philosophy Are And Should Be Paid For Teaching

The graduate students in the philosophy program at the University of St. Andrews are concerned about their teaching conditions, some of them tell me, but they don’t have a good grasp on how their situation compares with that of philosophy students elsewhere, particularly in the UK. (more…)

Rights Of Graduate Students In Regard To Departmental Matters

Departmental decisions—including hiring, budgeting and funding, curricular requirements, departmental policies, use of space, event planning—affect graduate students. What say do graduate students have in these decisions? What say should they have? (more…)

Preparing Teaching Assistants

Many graduate programs in philosophy provide funding for their students in exchange for their labor as teaching assistants (TAs). The job of a TA varies across institutions and courses, but typically involves grading assignments, running weekly discussion sections of a larger course, and providing guidance to students. (more…)

APA To Launch Graduate Student Council

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that it will be launching a new group responsible for “reporting to the board of officers on issues of interest, concern, and relevance to philosophy graduate students.” The APA Graduate Student Council, as it has been named, will be composed of twelve graduate students, with eight appointed by a selection c..

Profs: What Would You Tell Your Grad Students, But Can’t?

Comments are still coming in on yesterday’s post, “Grad Students: What Would You Tell Your Prof(s), But Can’t?” In future posts we’ll take up some of the recurring themes in those comments. In the meanwhile, a friend proposed that we hear from the other side. That could be interesting and constructive (I say, suggestively). And so: (more…)

Grad Students: What Would You Tell Your Prof(s), But Can’t?

In the wake of last week’s post about what graduate students wish they had known going into their programs, a fellow philosophy professor suggested I ask a related question: (more…)

Our Duties to Actual and Possible Graduate Students (guest post by Sergio Tenenbaum)

The following is a guest post * by Sergio Tenenbaum, Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto, on what philosophy departments owe graduate students in light of how difficult it is for them to find secure employment in philosophy.

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Sanders Graduate Student Prizes Awarded

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2015 Sanders Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation. They are:

Joshua Brandt (University of Toronto), “Partiality’s Negative Analogue”
Kevin Dorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “A Contextualist Solution to Miner Disagreements”
Matthew Shields (G..

Oregon Philosophy Faculty Removed from Courses (Updated)

“One by one, objecting faculty members are being removed as instructors of record for classes that they teach with graduate teaching fellows or classes taught by GTFs that the department supervises” reports The Register Guard. As Oregon University’s graduate student teaching fellows strike (previously) continues, the university’s administration is now engaging in a..

How Much Should Graduate Students Publish?

A current graduate student writes in with this sense of what is expected nowadays:

I’m under the general impression that I need to get as many publications in top journals as I can before I go on the job market. Considering how slow this process can be, and the fact that you can’t concurrently submit the same paper to more than one journal, it follows that I need t..

Impoverished Graduate Students

“The poverty of graduate school is often joked about. How many professors reminisce fondly about just scraping by in grad school? How many people joke about the number of people they fit in their hotel room at the conference or how many times they had to eat ramen?” For some students from poorer families, though, the poverty of graduate school is no laughing matter…