William Cornwell Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Faculty Promotion Committee, 2019-2020Faculty Evaluation Committee member, 2018; chair of the committee, 2019.Recruitment Committee, 2019-2020.Faculty Evaluation Appeals Committee member, 2018.University Strategic Planning Committee member, 2018-present.Academic Council member, 2018-present.Library Advisory Committee, 2019.Faculty Election Committee, 2019.College of Education Council Chair, 2018-2020College of Education Curriculum Committee Chair, 2018-2019.College of Education Research and Promotion Committee member, 2018-2019.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Salem, Massachusetts

Courses taught:Phil. of Mind (upper division)Phil. of Science (upper division)Reality & Knowledge (upper division)Critical Reasoning (lower division)Symbolic Logic I (upper division)Symbolic Logic II (upper division)Ethics (upper division)Topics in Ethics (honors course, upper division)Business Ethics (including online sections, lower division)Social & Political Phil. (upper division)Intro. to Phil. (lower division)Senior Seminar (capstone course for phil. majors)Professional Ethics & Sport Leadership (graduate level)Directed Studies on modern philosophy, philosophy of language, & epistemologyService:-Acting Chair, Philosophy Dept. (spring 2007 & June 2009)-Secretary, Presidential Advisory Cmte. on Academic Planning (spring 2011)-Coordinator, Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Art & Culture Concentrations (2010-13)-Member, University Curriculum Cmte. (2007-10), Course Review Subcommittee (2007-10), & Core Curriculum Advisory Subcommittee (2009-10)-Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on the Core (2009-10)-Member, School of Arts & Sciences Communications Team (2007-10)-Member, Philosophy Dept. faculty search committees (2005-06 (2 1-yr. positions), 2006-07 (1 tenure-track position and 2 1-yr. positions), & 2007-2008 (2 tenure-track positions))-Developer of & instructor for 3 new courses-Member, Salem State University Peace Institute Awards Cmte. (2008-16)-Member of the Campus Community Campaign Subcommittee (2011-18) to raise $25 million-Philosophy Dept. Assessment Coordinator (2006-09)-Business Ethics Course Director (2007-10)-Webmaster for the Philosophy Dept. (2006-2007, 2013-14)-Departmental undergraduate research liaison with the School of Arts & Sciences (2005-06)-Judge, Philosophy Dept.'s student essay contest (2009)-Faculty Adviser, Philosophy Club (2005-07, 2013-14)-Judge, Earth Day poster contest (most years from 2006 to 2018)-Discussion leader for the First Year Reading Experience (2012, 2013, 2015, & 2017)

Salem, Massachusetts

I successfully steered the department's efforts to get state approval for a B.A. program in philosophy. The application process was long and arduous; it required the collaboration of all of the full-time members of the department for several years. Against difficult odds in a challenging budgetary environment, the department succeeded in getting the first new major at Salem State in nearly a decade, and I am proud to count that as an accomplishment during my tenure as department Chair.My routine duties as Chair included evaluating junior faculty and part-time instructors, hiring part-time instructors, overseeing the departmental budget, scheduling courses, advising students, writing departmental reports, handling student complaints, hiring and supervising the department’s secretary, overseeing departmental committees, representing the department to internal and external constituencies, and handling other responsibilities assigned by the Provost and the Dean. As chair, I had a reduced teaching load of 3 sections per semester.

Advisor for all students who major in these programs, and contact person for all questions related to these two concentrations for the Bachelor of Liberal Studies.

I taught Philosophy of Mind (upper division), Introduction to Philosophy (lower division), Introduction to Composition (lower division), and Advanced Composition (upper division).My service to the academy included:---Departmental Faculty Research Coordinator: Publicized research opportunities, helped faculty secure funding for research, and compiled departmental research profile (2003-2005)---Organizer for my department’s 2-week-long Arriving Faculty Workshop (2004)---Head of the Philosophy club (2003-2005)---Chaperone on three occasions for West Point cadets attending philosophy conferences (2003-2005)---Advisor for four West Point cadets’ senior honor theses (2003, 2004)---Presenter each term to the philosophy seminar for faculty at West Point (fall 2002-spring 2004)---Organizer of summer philosophy reading group (2003)---Member of committee to select my department’s best senior thesis (2004)---Author of report on the academic climate in four companies of the Corps of Cadets (2003)---Presenter at workshops on the teaching of ethics (2004), the teaching of logic (2003), and the teaching of composition at West Point (2003)---Member of textbook selection committee for Introduction to Philosophy (2003, 2004)---Monthly department security officer (2002-2005)

I taught Analytic Philosophy (upper division), Introductory Logic (lower division), and Ideal and Culture: The Philosophical Tradition (lower division).

I taught History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (lower division), History of Modern Philosophy (lower division), Existentialism (lower division), Philosophy and Religion (lower division), Philosophy and Social Ethics (lower division), and Problems of Philosophy (lower division).

Ph.D., Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Outstanding Scholar Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 1991-1994. Given to three outstanding incoming.

M.A., Philosophy

B.A. With Distinction, Philosophy

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy