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Useful links for graduate students

  1. Graduate studies links

    2.
    1. With TAMUDirect you can download class rosters and email your students.
    2. Howdy.tamu.edu has replaced Neo.tamu.edu as the standard computing gateway on campus.

    3. The Office of Graduate Admissions handles admissions.
    4. http://oarprocess.tamu.edu/ is the web site that advisors use to make admissions decisions.
    5. Compass is the new system for managing application information.

    6. The Office of the Registrar's web site: http://www.tamu.edu/admissions/records/ includes links to:
      1. the Academic Calendar (listing holidays and various deadlines -- these are also listed on a calendar distributed by the office of student activities),
      2. courses.tamu.edu for courses offered in all departments,
      3. on-line versions of the University catalogs,
      4. etc.

    7. From the Office of Graduate Studies web site: http://ogs.tamu.edu/ you can download various forms that graduate students need. The OGS Calendar lists all of the deadlines graduate students must meet in order to graduate: fall 2008 calendar, spring 2009 calendar. They also have various petitions that you have to file in order to do things like change your degree plan, change your committee members, etc.

    8. From the Thesis Office you can obtain the Thesis Manual, which also contains the approval page your thesis committee has to sign at the defense.

    9. International students should visit the International Student Services web site, which includes information on and sample questions from the English Language Proficiency Exam that all international students must pass before they can be employed as GATs. Relatedly, www.toefl.org has information on interpreting TOEFL scores.

    10. The Financial Aid Office gives estimated tuition and fees.

    11. The Office of Graduate Studies has detailed information on health insurance for graduate students.

    12. Adult, Graduate and Off Campus Student Services might be able to help you find housing.

    13. APA (American Philosophical Association) policy requires that philosophy departments give applicants until April 15 to turn down financial offers: http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/statements/aid.html.

    14. The Faculty Senate web page has a document titled "Minimum syllabus requirements" ( ucc.tamu.edu/syllabus/minimum_syllabus_requirements_july2008.pdf, with a list of required elements that every syllabus must include.

    15. The Registrar's Office website includes some information on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) which applies to everyone who deals with student records.

    16. The Best Places web site includes lots of information comparing communities across the country, including cost of living comparisons and even a list of "best and worst cities for dating" (by the way, College Station is on neither list, but nearby Austin Texas is on the "best" list!).

  2. The Philosophy graduate program

    1. Graduate studies administration contacts in Philosophy:

      1. Gary Varner, Director of Graduate Studies / Ph.D. program advisor

      2. Linda Radzik, Associate Director of Graduate Studies / M.A. program advisor

      3. Graduate Program Secretary
          862-6979
          Office: 314 Bolton Hall

      4. Mark Dondero, department representative to the Graduate Student Council

      5. Mason Cole, student member of department's Graduate Program Advisory Committee (GPAC)

    2. The members of the GPAC this year are _________ and Professors John McDermott, Benjamin McMyler, Linda Radzik, Roger Sansom, and Gary Varner (chair).

    3. Comprehensive exams administered to date in the PhD program.

    4. Degree plan checklist for the M.A.

    5. To meet our teaching practicum requirement, our Ph.D. students can earn a certificate of completion for the Graduate Teaching Academy from the Center for Teaching Excellence.

    6. Department Constitution and Bylaws

  3. Miscellaneous philosophy-related links

    1. At Epistemelinks.com, you can search journals by title, area, historical philosophers, etc.
    2. Here is a list of links to the journals' home pages: homepages.ed.ac.uk/pmilne/links_html/journals.html
    3. And on The Philosophical Gourmet (a.k.a. The Leiter Report) site, you can find some discussion of journals' strengths and weaknesses

    4. ConferenceAlerts.com lists upcoming conferences in philosophy and other fields, and you can subscribe for email alerts

    5. The American Philosophical Association
    6. APA statement on offers of aid to graduate students
    7. The APA placement (job search) brochure
    8. A list of philosophy departments in the U.S.

    9. A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind
    10. David Chalmers' Mindpapers a bibliography in philosophy of mind with links to many papers available on-line

    11. "Philosophy Talk" is a radio program that "questions everything but your intelligence."

    12. The Center for Environmental Philosophy home page,
      • Including links to begillions of other publications and environmental groups, and
      • A massive bibliography you can search, covering the two main journals in the field, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Values, plus the newsletter of the International Society for Environmental Ethics and two annotated bibliographies prepared by Eric Katz. This is an excellent source of scholarly references on environmental ethics, animal rights, etc.
    13. The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) webpage
    14. The ISEE email list
    15. Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
    16. Animal Ethics Blogspot.com
    17. The Center for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia
    18. The Ethics Update page, maintained by Lawrence Hinman

    19. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    20. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    21. A meta-encyclopedia (using which you can compare entries on the same topics in the above two encyclopedias and other resources

    22. 300+ proofs for the existence of God

    23. NSF's Fastlane grant management tools

  4. Miscellaneous TAMU links

    1. SSO/HRConnect (Human Resources, for benefits info. etc.)
    2. BlueCross BlueShield of Texas (one of the main health care plans at TAMU)
    3. The Code Maroon emergency notification system
    4. Pharmacare (the related pharmacy plan)
    5. College of Liberal Arts info page
    6. The Liberal Arts Council page
    7. The TAMU home page
    8. Office of Rules and Regulatory Compliance
    9. The TAMU Student Government Association
    10. Aggie Athletics
    11. The Aggie Honor System
    12. The TAMU Student Rules
    13. Turnitin at A&M, an on-line plagiarism detection service
    14. Office of Institutional Studies and Planning (includes profiles of the student body, faculty salary comparisons, etc.)
    15. Maps of Texas A&M
    16. The MARS (Measurement And Research Services) home page, including directions for scoring multiple choice exams
    17. The Internet Grant Proposal System (IGPS)
    18. GSA (A&M reimburses out-of-state business travel expenses up to the per diems listed here)
    19. The state Comptroller of Public Accounts' Texas Mileage Guide
    20. Aggies for Animal Rescue
    21. The Office of the Registrar's web site includes links to:
    22. Course listings are on-line at courses.tamu.edu.
    23. The tamudirect.tamu.edu web site gives instructors access to class rosters, student email lists, etc.
    24. On this map of Texas A&M: www.tamu.edu/map/ you can locate any building you need to visit.
    25. On the Transportation Services web site: http://transport.tamu.edu/ you can get information on campus bus routes (which serve much of College Station and Bryan) and parking.
    26. The TAMU Student Rules: student-rules.tamu.edu state official policies on grades, incompletes, grade changes and appeals, etc.
    27. The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research: glasscock.tamu.edu supports research in the humanities and interdisciplinary research through conferences, colloquia, reading groups, and so on.

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