Jane Drexler, Ph.D.
Jane Drexler is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Salt Lake Community College. Since arriving at SLCC in 2007, Drexler has served as Faculty Senate President (2012-2014) and in several other faculty leadership roles. She won the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, and was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award in 2020.
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Drexler is a presenter, contributor and participant in the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project, funded by the National Endowment of Humanities and by the Mellon Foundation, and is currently co-editing a special issue on "Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life," for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers journal Studies in Pedagogy.
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She is currently ex-officio member of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Executive Board, in her role as Chair of the AAPT International Conference-Workshop organizing committee; and is member of the American Philosophy Association's (APA) Committee on Teaching Philosophy. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Teaching Philosophy, the premier journal for the discipline's pedagogy in the U.S.
She has essays published in general-audience and peer-reviewed journals and books; most recently, in the book Philosophers in the Classroom (Hackett, 2018), a collection of essays from 24 of the discipline's most award-winning professors (Drexler's is the only essay from a professor at a community college).
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Jane is a recreational cyclist, beginner rock climber, not-bad guitarist, not-great violinist, somewhat-adventurous hiker, and occasional world-traveler.
Education
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Ph.D., Philosophy, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2004
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M.A., Philosophy, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2001
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B.A., Philosophy, CU - Colorado Springs, 1997
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B.A., Communications (Media Production), CU - Colorado Springs, 1992
