from the Graduate School

Graduate Student Registration and Confirmation of Enrollment
Please encourage all graduate students to register for fall courses as quickly as possible.  If the department is responsible for registering students, we ask that you complete registration this week or next week, at the latest. This includes registration for students who require continuous registration, pre-dissertation, or dissertation credits. Early registration ensures accurate and timely enrollment reporting. Please remind students to confirm their enrollments via BU Brain by September 5. 

from the Graduate School

Graduate Student Registration and Confirmation of Enrollment
Please encourage all graduate students to register for fall courses as quickly as possible.  If the department is responsible for registering students, we ask that you complete registration this week or next week, at the latest. This includes registration for students who require continuous registration, pre-dissertation, or dissertation credits. Early registration ensures accurate and timely enrollment reporting. Please remind students to confirm their enrollments via BU Brain by September 5. 

Empathy: pro or con?

from Paul Bloom in the Boston Review ...

link: here

this is an actual newspaper article

.. in the local paper, about where I live:

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/connections/2014/08/08/ny-vestal-hills-offer-gorgeous-view/13781685/

this week in grade inflation news

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/08/princeton-panel-urges-changes-grading-rules-wellesley-scholars-warn-impact-strict

as far as I can tell, the applied ethics content of this piece is that attempts to counter grade inflation should be rejected on subjective utilitarian grounds: they make everybody unhappy.

SSRC Fellowships

link is: here

New graduate student orientation

New Graduate Student Orientation

The Graduate School will be welcoming all new graduate students to campus during a brief orientation session in Lecture Hall 1 from 8:30 to 10:30am on Tuesday, August 26. The new TA Orientation will also be held the same day from 10:45am to 4:00pm.  More information regarding orientations is available online.