March/April 2026Vol. XXXVIII No. 5
Editorial
Curriculum in a Time of Change
March/April 2026Vol. XXXVIII No. 5
Faculty Travelogue
A Riddle Revisited
About five miles north of the Moscow Kremlin is an immense monument to Soviet Russia’s idealized image of itself. The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy – known colloquially by its Russian acronym VDNKh – is a cross between Disney’s Epcot Center and the Smithsonian.
TFUAP: Core Principles
Given that the Task Force on the Undergraduate Program’s (TFUAP’s) proposal is being discussed around the Institute and in this Faculty Newsletter, we, TFUAP, will describe the core principles that have guided our decisions with regards to the proposal.
Words That Have Not Lost Their Force: The MIT Curriculum Debate Revisited
In 2006–2007, the MIT Faculty Newsletter became a forum for unusually candid and sustained debate about the future of undergraduate education.
