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XXXI No.
4 March / April 2019 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features commentary on the new MIT review process for outside funders (Editorial) and Faculty Chair Susan Silbey on "A 21st Century Education at MIT."
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| An Open Letter to the MIT Corporation Nearly 250 faculty and other MIT community members have already signed a letter regarding the Institute's decisions regarding Saudi Arabia. |
| The Octopus Haynes Miller questions the wisdom of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science mixed majors and the likely expanded role of the new College of Computing. |
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Editorial In response to the extensive criticism of MIT’s ties to the Saudi regime, the Institute announced in April that it would not engage in relationships with two Chinese . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
In anticipation of the March 8, 2019 MacVicar Day symposium, I was asked to think about “What is important to a 21st century undergraduate education and what . . . |
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Fifty years ago, on March 4, 1969, much research and teaching at MIT came to a halt, as students, faculty, and staff held a “Scientists Strike for Peace.” The strike . . . |
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We are members of the MIT community concerned about MIT’s relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its state-controlled subsidiaries. Saudi Arabia is . . . |
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The MIT Faculty Newsletter is maintained by a volunteer Editorial Board, who are elected through an Institute-wide, all-faculty election. In the recent election four new . . . |
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The open sharing of products of scholarship promises to quicken the accumulation of knowledge and insight and enhance opportunities for collaboration. It also aligns . . . |
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There are a number of initiatives active around the Institute that respond to the ever-increasing incursion of the methods of Computer Science into just about every . . . |
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The CUP (Committee on the Undergraduate Program) experiment for the Class of 2022, which was designed to investigate ways to promote greater intellectual and . . . |
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This fall, we introduced the Academic Climate Survey (ACS) in the pages of the Faculty Newsletter, and have been invited to share some early observations of faculty data . . . |
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Each year faculty are invited to participate in the undergraduate admissions process and this year I decided to do this. If you have been at MIT for a while it is likely . . . |
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Letters We very much appreciated the suggestion of our nine History faculty colleagues who recommended in the January/February 2019 issue of the Faculty Newsletter that . . . |
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Letters The Institute is now engaged in an important discussion on the topic of large international collaborations. Unfortunately, one aspect of those collaborations has, . . . |
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