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What Should Count for Tenure and Promotion?

...Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new essays will focus on ethical questions raised by institutional policies of colleges and universities. As a...

The Cruelty of the Adjunct System

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new...

Learning to Teach

Just as graduate faculty aid doctoral students in strengthening their research efforts, so the faculty should provide students with assistance in enhancing their teaching skills. For nearly a decade in...

Reading the Room

In the world of business, those who understand the opinions and attitudes of others are said to know how to “read the room.” Every effective salesperson senses when an approach...

Professors as Teachers

When elementary and secondary school teachers are asked what they do for a living, they typically reply, “I’m a teacher.” The usual follow-up, “What do you teach?” elicits replies such...

A College Teacher’s Mission

A few decades ago I served on the jury in a highly publicized, double-murder case. The woman who was charged admitted the crimes but pleaded insanity. The trial took several...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Navigating Academic Life

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for...

Andrew P. Mills

...in the philosophy of language, on the pedagogy of philosophy, and on philosophical themes in Downton Abbey and Harry Potter. He is co-editor, with Alexandra Bradner and Steven M. Cahn,...

The Joseph Saga: Turnabouts, Trade-Offs, and Transience

         Literary works often stimulate philosophical reflection. Such is the case with the Biblical account of the life of Joseph as related in the final chapters of Genesis followed by a poignant...

Contributors

...scale, independent, student-designed projects” (with Dr. Catherine Ford). She has implemented civic engagement projects in over 40 classes for the last 13 years. Steven M. Emmanuel Steven M. Emmanuel is...