AAPT Members American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Apparently, OregonLive.com thinks so:
Sean Canfield, the Pac-10's philospher quarterback, ending Oregon State career on a high note | The Beavers Beat - OregonLive.com

From Bloomberg.com: Oxford's Queen college has named a scholarship in honor of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 27-year old Philosophy student who was murdered during the street protests back in June.

Iran Condemns Oxford Scholarship in Memory of Iranian Woman - Bloomberg.com

UPDATE 11/11:

BBC Iran Denounces Oxford Scholarship

UPDATE 11/13

The Telegraph: 'Angel of Freedom' Neda Agha Soltan Oxford scholarship will be her most important legacy

DeutschWelle: Scholarship in honor of Neda draws criticism from Iran

The Times: In Memory: The creation of a scholarship in tribute to Neda Soltan is an admirable political act (comment)

Tehran Times: Iran deplores 'political' Oxford University move  read more »

Patricia Cohen of the NYTimes has a fascinating review in the Books section of Emmanuel Faye's soon-to-be-translated book "Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy":

Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.com  read more »

The National Union of Students, with help from HSBC, has produced a report on student-professor contact hours by discipline in the UK. The Guardian had a brief story about it this morning:
Arts students 'see academics for just nine hours a week' | Education | The Observer
A 'mini-report' on the contact hours and the full report produced by NUS and HSBC are available from NUS's press-release site here:Media Centre: News And Events: NUS.org.uk

The data set is worrying. Here's the graph included in both:

That's 9 hours a week in History & Philosophy, 5 of which are in lecture, and 3 of which are in tutor sessions.  I'd love to see an equivalent study done here in the US. It strikes me that it would be pretty easy to create a meaningful measure of school-value by simply dividing the number of contact hours by the number of students present during that session - McDaniel has 3 contact hours a week for a 4-credit class (I know, don't get me started) and our 'official' average class size is 17. That gives students 0.176 of an hour of the professor's attention per class. 4 classes means 0.70 hour of faculty attention per week per student.  read more »

Harper's magazine has published a translation of a conversation between Jean-Paul Sartre and John Gerassi recorded in 1971. Sartre tells Gerassi that he hallucinated a group of crabs who followed him around in his youth. To make this even more odd, the psychiatrist he consulted was Jacques Lacan! The full article requires subscription, but the excerpt is bizarre enough on its own.

Huis claws—By John Gerassi (Harper's Magazine)

sartre: Yeah, after I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time. They followed me in the streets, into class. I got used to them. I would wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?” I would talk to them all the time. I would say, “Okay, guys, we’re going into class now, so we have to be still and quiet,” and they would be there, around my desk, absolutely still, until the bell rang.

...But after I finished school, I began to think I was going crazy, so I went to see a shrink, a young guy then with whom I have been good friends ever since, Jacques Lacan...

You'll no doubt remember that Austin College hired Marjorie Hass (formerly of Muhlenberg) as President last July. Today, we get another - this time Mount Holyoke!

Mount Holyoke College Names New President - NYTimes.com

Ms. Pasquerella, who graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1980 before earning her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University, spent almost two decades as a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island, before becoming associate dean, then dean, of the graduate school there.

Here's some more coverage:
Mount Holyoke College names new president - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe

wbur.org » News » Lynn Pasquerella To Lead Mount Holyoke College

Lynn Pasquerella Named 18th President of Mount Holyoke College | Reuters

And E. Brister has a list of women philosophers in high administrative positions:

Knowledge and Experience: Women Philosophers and Administrative Leadership  read more »

Salt Lake Community College's 'Globe' paper has a report on the annual regional undergraduate philosophy conference they are currently hosting. The theme this year is Rawls:

Individual freedom vs. social justice at the Philosophical Conference - Campus

SLCC student and philosophy major, Dale Kingston, will discuss Rawls' theory of Overlapping Consensus and how it is incompatible with Western organized religions. Then, he'll demonstrate how Eastern philosophies have been practicing a form of Rawls's vision based on interactions amongst one another

Jacksonville University and University of N. Florida's 'Philosophy slam' got a write up in the Florida Times-Union. We've started a series of 'soapboxes' at McDaniel this fall, and it is going pretty well. As the article implies, these events are excellent opportunities to build bridges between Philosophy and other disciplines like Poli. Sci. One of these days, we'll get a video / audio recording of a soapbox up online.

Here's the link:
Jacksonville 'slam' takes philosophy out of the classroom | Jacksonville.com

The student paper at Princeton has a story interviewing Peter Singer, in memory of his protested appointment to Princeton 10 years ago:

Peter Singer reflects on a decade at Princeton - The Daily Princetonian

I was living in Philadelphia at the time, and listened to Singer on the local NPR talk show on the way into campus one day. I remember thinking that the callers, many of whom were protesters, seemed largely ignorant of his work, but he responded calmly and carefully to each.  I got a few days of discussion out of the issue then, and it could probably be used again.

Well, would we expect any different?  Here's the blurb:

Students occupy campus during Furlough Week | Daily Titan

Steven Rodriguez, a philosophy and anthropology major at CSUF, said that the Furlough Fest would not be the end in terms of student-organized events made to protest the budget cuts. Events will continue to be coordinated in the future, he said.