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XXVI No.
5 May / June 2014 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features commentary on both of MIT's online ventures: MITx and OCW. Our Editorial reports on the establishing of a Campus Planning Committee, and From The Faculty Chair offers "Governance Highlights: Year in Review."
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| OCW Educator: Sharing the "How" as well as the "What" of MIT Education Behind the scenes at the latest OpenCourseWare innovation. |
| What's Old is New: Learning from the Past Catherine Chvany takes a look at how things used to work and offers some ideas for their current application. |
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Editorial Greetings to you, the graduates! – and to your families. Together with the thousands of family members and friends gathered for Commencement, we share the . . . |
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Editorial At the well-attended last faculty meeting of the semester, the MIT faculty present voted unanimously to establish a Campus Planning Committee as a standing . . . |
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The Draft Report of the MITx Subcommittee of the Faculty Policy Committee (FPC) considered the current ambiguities and uncertainties in assigning credit and . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
In this last Newsletter column of the year, I would like to summarize some of the activities of the faculty governance system this academic year. |
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What really goes on behind the scenes in designing a course at MIT? What considerations underlie the multitude of decisions leading to the material . . . |
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The May 2014 Faculty Newsletter was especially interesting, even if it addressed only narrowly local problems. The issue of student housing cannot be looked at only . . . |
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In Memoriam Frank Davidson spent nearly 40 years at MIT. As a Senior Research Associate he worked on macro or large-scale problems with Jay Forrester and others, and was . . . |
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Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson has written an extensive and highly entertaining memoir, The Mens’ Kick Line. |
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Letters I was proud to be a member of the MIT Strong team that ran the Boston Marathon on Monday. When I exercise I often let my mind run free to think of whatever is rattling , , , |
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