Tag: students
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All Happy Classrooms (guest post)
Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them.
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A Collection of Advice for Graduate Students
There’s a lot of advice floating around online for graduate students, but it can be hard to find, and hard for newbies to judge…
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If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…
…how do you make that happen?
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Teaching Under Hostile Conditions
“The many sources of harm and hostility we collectively face—as philosophers, as educators, and as humans—seem too numerous to name, let alone to seriously…
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The Benefits of Student Autonomy
What I sometimes call the “great Millian hope” is that freedom, knowledge, and happiness are positively correlated. A new study conducted by a philosopher…
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Are Your Students Doing The Reading?
And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it?
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Douglas Portmore’s Six Commandments for Getting the Most Out of Graduate School
[Originally posted on September 28, 2020.] How can you get the most out of graduate school? Douglas Portmore, professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, has…
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Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors’ Websites
Individual philosophy instructors often post publicly available resources for students on their websites. Here’s a place to share them.
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Philosophy Labs: Some Recommendations (guest post)
The “lonely-armchair methodology” is one way of approaching philosophy, but it’s not the only way.
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Complementing Defenses of Academic Freedom with Understanding & Advice
As reported earlier this week, there’s a new organization, the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA), that aims to defend faculty whose academic freedom is being…
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Major Philosophy Event for Pre-College Students Held Online This Year
The 2020 Australasian Philosothon—“an event that encourages school students to investigate ethical and philosophical questions in the context of ‘communities of inquiry’”—took place at the end…
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Dialexicon: A New Student-Led Philosophy Initiative
There’s a new “platform for high school students to learn, discuss, and contribute to philosophical thought and writing.”
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One Week Into Semester, UNC Chapel Hill Switches to Fully Online (Updated)
One week into the semester, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill administration reversed its decision to open its campus for teaching and housing, and moved…
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Trump Administration Abandons Plan to Revoke Visas of International Students with Online-Only Schedules
The Trump administration has withdrawn a plan proposed earlier this month to withhold or revoke visas of international students at U.S. schools whose courses…
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Homeland Security To Ban International Students From U.S. If Their Colleges Adopt Online-Only Instruction
The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester…
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Facts and Figures About U.S. Philosophy Departments
Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences that gathers information about the humanities in the United States, has released…
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The Sexual Orientations of First-Year Philosophy Undergrads
What’s the distribution of sexual orientations among first-year undergraduates who are majoring in philosophy? Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside), Morgan Thompson (Pittsburgh), and Eric Winsberg (South…
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Free Speech at Oxford (updated with an important correction)
Flying around social media yesterday were cheers that Oxford University had issued a “Statement on the Importance of Free Speech” in response to a motion from…
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Being an “Awesome First-Year Graduate Student”
As his son approaches graduate school, Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside), has been thinking about advice he can offer him to be an…
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The Philosophy Major Sees Increase in Numbers and Diversity (guest post)
“In the midst of this general sharp decline of the humanities, philosophy’s admittedly small and partial recovery stands out.”