| contents | Vol.
XVIII No.
4 March/April 2006 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features Nancy Hopkins on "Diversification of a University Faculty," an Editorial, "Squeezing Out the Graduate Students," and former dean Robert Redwine on "Faculty Roles in Administration."
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| Teach Talk: Why Students Don't Attend Class A survey of one class offers some interesting insights into student's thoughts on classroom attendance. |
| Provost Announces Government Inquiry into Lincoln Lab Misconduct Charges The federal government has finally agreed to investigate charges of research misconduct at Lincoln Laboratory. |
| International Students at MIT Post 9/11 The Director of the International Students Office writes about the effect of post-9/11 security measures on our international students. |
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A broadly diverse faculty is critical to MIT's educational mission, and significant efforts have been made to achieve a faculty whose diversity reflects that of the students . . .
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Editorial
In the early 1980s, MIT was well known as an expensive place to do research. With a high dependence on federal funding, graduate students were very expensive to . . . |
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Large disasters occur with increasing frequency. Most, like last year's Indian Ocean tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake, and the Katrina hurricane, are caused by nature. |
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I recently completed a term of five-and-a-half years as Dean for Undergraduate Education, and am now in the process of re-invigorating my research program.
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Teach Talk
Are you dissatisfied with the attendance at your lectures? Do you wonder what your students are thinking when they skip your lectures? If you answered "yes" to either . . .
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MIT Poetry
When corporations fail / Many drown. The Party tried with only one / Run for the people / Without success. |
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In an e-mail letter to the MIT faculty on March 3rd of this year, Provost L. Rafael Reif announced that the federal government is going to investigate charges of research . . .
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There has been concern expressed across the Institute about the potential effects of the U.S. government's post-9/11 security measures on international students.
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I really have to lean into the wind to make some headway as I come through the wind tunnel at the base of the building. Well, what do you expect? After all, it's March, . . .
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As the role of graduate education in our society continues to evolve, the needs of graduate students are changing too. Support for graduate students is no longer . . .
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Letters
I have just read an article in the January/February issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter: "An open letter to the MIT faculty" concerning the Medical Care Task Force . . .
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