October 2025Vol. XXXVIII No. 2
Statement by Some Members of the MIT Council on Academic Freedom on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
John Marshall, Yossi Sheffi, David Thesmar, Bernhardt L. Trout, John R. WilliamsAs members of The MIT Council on Academic Freedom, we generally support the Compact as an opportunity for the MIT administration to promote its obligations of intellectual diversity, non-discrimination, institutional neutrality, and fiscal responsibility. We expect that the MIT administration will want to negotiate some of the economic terms, and in supporting the Compact we in no way support any restrictions on protected speech as stated for example in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom.
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