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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Academia
Let's say you're a college student. You have a class meeting today at which a short essay (about 400 words) is due. The essay counts for about 5% of your grade for the course. At that class meeting, your instructor...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:37 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research. As it happens, that research involves human sexuality and attitudes toward sex toys. Here's how...
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Category: Academia
The times in question being, in this case, the last days of October. Once upon a Tuesday morning, while I wandered, cold and yawning, Up the grimy stair steps winding skyward toward my office door, On the wall's bile-greenish surface,...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:42 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my freeway commute...
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Category: Academia
Via Twitter, PalMD wondered if I'd seen this brief item on the New York Times Idea of the Day blog. Writing in The Philosophers' Magazine, Brooke Lewis says tallies of full-time faculty at top American and British colleges show women...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:56 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Oh joy, it's time to grade more papers! At the moment, in fact, I have two batches of papers (approximately 400 words each, approximately 100 papers per batch) to grade, since I hadn't finished marking the earlier ones before the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Imagine you are looking ahead to a furlough day and taking seriously the piece of the agreement that specifies that you won't actually do any work on that furlough day. To prevent yourself from backsliding by doing work to pass...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad ponders faculty "service" in higher education. For those outside the ivy-covered bubble of academe, "service" usually means "committee work" or something like it. The usual concern is that, although committees are necessary to accomplish significant...
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Category: Academia
To whom it may concern, I can deal with the third story classrooms, really I can. Running up and down stairs to get to and from class helps give me the exercise I wouldn't get otherwise because I'm grading papers...
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Category: Academia
In my university mailbox yesterday I received a memo detailing measures to help prevent the spread of flu (whether seasonal or novel H1N1)....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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