Miscellaneous
- Mailboxes
- Student Petitions
- Secretarial Help
- Informal Resolution of Complaints
- Robinson Essay Contest
8.1 Mail Boxes
All graduate students have mail boxes in the Departmental Office, 3090 Wescoe.
They should check these frequently for notices and other information from the
Department.
Graduate students should keep the office staff informed of any changes in
their names, addresses, or phone numbers.
8.2 Student Petitions
Students who wish exceptions made to Departmental rules in their behalf may
petition the Department, usually in the form of a letter to the Chair with a
copy to the Director of Graduate Studies. If there is precedent, the Chair and/or
Director of Graduate Studies may take appropriate action. Otherwise, it is referred
to the Department for a decision.
8.3 Secretarial Help
The front office staff does not type student papers, even for seminars. The
staff will make copies (syllabus, handouts, exams) for courses being taught
by GTAs.
Students (undergraduate and graduate) are responsible for the reproduction
of their materials--including, of course, theses and dissertations. This copying
should be done at a location other than the front office. Faculty supervisors
should advise their GTAs of this as well.
The only occasional exception might be in a graduate seminar where the instructor
wants a particular assignment distributed to the other students in the seminar.
This doesn't often happen and it is restricted to about 6-12 students typically.
But this practice should not occur at courses below the advanced seminar.
8.4 Informal Resolution of Complaints
A. If a student feels he or she has been treated unfairly
in any matter he or she should notify the Chair or the Director of Graduate
Studies and may petition the Department as a whole.
B. If a student has any worry that he or she will
be treated unfairly by any committee, he or she may submit written statements
as he or she feels appropriate or the student may speak to the Chair, the
Director of Graduate Studies, or other appropriate persons prior to that committee's
deliberations. If he or she wishes, the student may petition through the Chair
or the Director of Graduate Studies to appear before the committee prior to
its deliberations.
C. Any student who feels any decision, grade, rule,
etc. unfair in general or in a particular application may petition for review
of the decision, grade, rule, etc., by the Chair or by the Department as a
whole. If a student fails to receive satisfaction, he or she is free to seek
a formal grievance hearing at the level of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences in accordance with the provisions of the University Senate Code.
8.5 Robinson Essay Contest
The Department has adopted a proposal to offer an annual essay contest, to
be called the Edward S. Robinson Memorial Essay Contest.
- Prize or prizes are offered (up to $250) depending on the quality of the
essays.
- The essays will be judged by a committee of members of the KU Philosophy
Department and a representative of the Graduate Association of Students of
Philosophy.
- The contest is open to KU undergraduates and graduates.
- The essays may be on any topic of philosophic interest.
- Each contestant is limited to one entry.
- The winner of the contest will present the essay to a GASP meeting open
to anyone interested.
- The contest is limited to unpublished essays.
