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For international consulting activities, see §International Professional Projects.

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC; Program Officer, 1992 – 1995, 1998 – 2002.

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; Herbert and Ann Siegel Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 1995 – 1997; Professor of Philosophy, 1995 – 1998.

Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Philosophy, 1986 – 1992.

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Academic Dean, 1983 – 1986; Associate Provost, 1982 – 1983; Professor of Philosophy, 1982 – 1986.

Department of Philosophy, Denison University, Granville, OH; Professor, 1982; Associate Professor, 1976 – 1982;  Assistant Professor, 1971 – 1976.

Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, England;  Visiting Research Professor (sabbatical leave), 1980.

National Science Foundation, Washington, DC; Program Officer (one-year leave as rotator), 1977 – 1978 Local Course Improvement, Instructional Scientific Equipment, Public Understanding of Science Programs.

Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland–College Park; Teaching Assistant, 1969 – 1971.

Association of American Colleges and Universities, Peer Review (journal), 1999 – present.

Howard University
Institutional Biosafety Committee, public member, 2012 – 2013.
Ad hoc committees to investigate allegations of scientific misconduct in the Medical School, public member, 2011 – 2013.
Institutional Review Board, public member, 2011 – 2013.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
ACLU of Virginia, 2011 – 2013; Ad Hoc Governance Committee, chair; Development Committee.
ACLU of Northern Virginia, 2010 – 2013.
ACLU of the Lehigh Valley, 1996 – 1999.
ACLU of Florida (State and Local), 1986 – 1991.

INTART Foundation (promoting contemporary Russian art), 2000 – 2002.

Museo Fondo Del Sol (art museum), Washington, DC, 2000 – 2002.

National Academy of Engineering, Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, 2000 – 2002.

SMART Discovery Center (science museum), Bethlehem, PA, 1995 – 1997.

Orlando Science Center (science museum), 1991 – 1992.

Northwest Area Foundation, Education Advisory Committee, St. Paul, MN, 1983 – 1986.

“Funding Your Best Ideas: A 12-Step Program,” in Susan Peterson (ed.), The Grantwriters Internet Companion (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2001).

“A Dean’s-Eye View: The Golden Age of Universities on the Make,” (book review), Change magazine, v. 24, n. 6, Nov./Dec. 1992, pp. 62 – 65.

“Support Issues” (summary of presentation) in Zaven Karian (ed.), The Use of Symbolic Computation in Undergraduate Mathematics, proceedings of the Denison Conference, June 25 – 28, 1992 (Mathematical Association of America, 1992).

Citation: R. Edgerton, P. Hutchings, K. Quinlan (eds.), The Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching (AAHE, 1991), Entry I.

Citation: Sheila Tobias, They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier (Research Corporation, 1990), p. 88.

“Struggles with the Maxwell Demon,” a philosophical essay on entropy and information, Rollins College, Oct. 1988.

“Explosive Freedom: Impressions of Glasnost,”  Rollins Alumni Record, v. 66, n. 1, Spring 1988.

“A Crisis in Science” (excerpts from my Congressional testimony),  The Chronicle of Higher Education, v. 33, n. 29, April 1, 1987, p. 43.

Citation: Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas (Basic Books, 1985), p. 156.

Citation: Jason Kawall, “Self-Regarding Supererogatory Actions,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Sept. 2003.

“Sex Selection: The Public Impact of Private Choices,” invited paper, Rosenstiel International Conference on Developmental Biology, Gambier, OH, 1983.

“A Laboratory Manual for the Philosophy of Biology,”  Philosophy of Biology in the Philosophy Curriculum (Council for Philosophical Studies, San Francisco State University, 1983) ch. 7, pp. 72 – 87.

“Of Sissies and Spinsters: Shifts in Value of Sex-Marked Terms,” American Philosophical Association, Chicago, 1983.

“The Case Against Human Sociobiology,” American Philosophical Association, Chicago, 1983.

“The Sex/Value Shift: Sex Bias and Linguistic Change,” invited paper, Forum for Interdisciplinary Research Conference:  Language Problems and Public Policy, Cancun, Mexico, 1981.

“Changing Sex Roles of Men and Women,” two articles in the Steubenville Catholic Register and an educational program on WTOV-TV, Steubenville, OH, sponsored by the Ohio Program in the Humanities, June 1981.

“The Call for Feminist Theory: Is There An Answer?” in Beth Reed (ed.), Toward a Feminist Transformation of the Academy: II (Ann Arbor: Great Lakes Colleges Association, 1981).

Citation: D.C. Dennett, Brainstorms (MIT Press: Bradford Books, 1980), p. 44.

“Computing in Symbolic Logic,” presentation and demonstration, Conference: Logic and Liberal Learning, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979.

A Guide to Undergraduate Science Course and Laboratory Improvements (with R.F. Watson), resource catalog (Washington: National Science Foundation, 1979).

“Generic ‘Man’ and Mortal Woman,” an essay in the philosophy of language in Beth Reed (ed.), The Structure of Knowledge – A Feminist Perspective (Ann Arbor: Great Lakes Colleges Association, 1979).

“Logic and Simulation,” in Esther Thorson (ed.), Simulation in Higher Education (New York: Exposition Press, 1979). Also ERIC System document #IR 004 951, cited in Resources in Education, November, 1977.

DEMON, a logic proof-teacher and validity-checker, and FRAME, a set of tutorials for translation from natural to symbolic logic languages; instructional computer programs for symbolic logic; used in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Hong Kong (Distributor: Denison University Computer Center), 1974.

“Reference and Reification,” lecture, Council for Philosophical Studies Institute on Human Nature, Colorado Springs, CO, 1977.

“Philosophical Presuppositions of Assertiveness Training,” broadcast on WYEP-FM Radio, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 20, 1975.

“JOB CRUNCH: The Affirmative Action Game,” an educational simulation (with Judith Laird), ERIC System document #ED 169 819, cited in Resources in Education, 1979. Reviewed by C. S. Greenblat and J. G. Baily in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, v. 3, no. 3, Spring 1979.

“Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things: A Philosopher Looks at Abortion,” invited lecture, University of Notre Dame Conference on Abortion, 1973.

As president at two colleges and dean at three, hired deans, vice presidents, directors, institutional consultants, faculty, associate deans and staff; at Metropolitan College, served on presidential search committee for my replacement.

Search for FIPSE Director, staff representative, 1999 – 2000.

FIPSE staff hirings (in response to Congressional appropriation), manager, 2000.

Lehigh University search for dean of the College of Education, chair, 1995.

Denison University presidential search, elected faculty representative, 1975.

Negotiated, established, evaluated study abroad contracts with Mexican universities, Merida; Rollins College, 1986 – 1992.
Co-leader, month-long study/travel course (archeology, culture); Denison University, 1976.

FIPSE (U.S. Department of Education) grant to Kenyon College; Teachers College, Columbia University; and Bank Street College of Education, New York to develop 5-STEP, a new consortial model and 5-year double degree program for combining liberal arts and teacher education.

Senior Fellow, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2012 – present.

Medal for service to the College, Metropolitan College of New York 50th anniversary, 2014.

Medal for leadership and achievement, Veteran Feminists of America, 2001.

Appreciation Award, Hamilton Holt School (evening degree programs), Rollins College, 1991.

Appreciation Award, Graduate Program in Counseling, Rollins College, 1990.

First Annual Faculty Leadership Award, Crossed Keys Honorary, Denison University, 1981.

Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society, 1981.

Danforth Associate, appointed 1976.

Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Maryland, 1970.

United States Steel Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1967 – 1969.