Editorial
Congratulations to the Class of 2025 and Your Families
To the Class of 2025: You were the class that brought MIT back to life.
Roger Levy New Chair of the Faculty
Roger Levy, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, will succeed Mary Fuller as chair of the faculty on July 1, 2025.
This Is Not An Editorial
Nazli Choucri,
Christopher Cummins,
Sally Haslanger,
Ceasar McDowell,
Tanalís Padilla,
Nasser Rabbat,
Robert Redwine,
Franz-Josef Ulm
In René Magritte’s famous painting The Treachery of Images, a pipe is shown with the inscription “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” – “This is not a pipe.” It’s a paradox, or so it seems.
New Home for the MIT Music Program
The Music Program within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences serves more than 1,500 MIT students who enroll in music classes each academic year.
From The Faculty Chair
Looking Back
This is my final column as chair, and these are typically a time for taking stock.
Academic Freedom is What Makes Our Nation Great*
Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced back to medieval European universities, were never certain.
Faculty Travelogue
How Kafka, Not Newton, Saved My Life
I carry the burden of an imperial name: Franz-Josef. Austro-Hungarian, obsolete, mildly ridiculous. But this is the story of how a different Josef – Josef K., Kafka’s protagonist from The Trial – saved my life.
MIT AAUP’s Response to the Attacks on Higher Education
American higher education is under attack by the Trump administration. Faculty, postdocs, students, and staff are hurting. Labs are at risk of closing.
The Legacy of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI)
I am writing about the legacy of MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) because it will be closing at the end of this spring semester.
The MIT Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC): Partnering with Faculty for Student Success
The Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC) aims to support MIT students from matriculation through graduation by way of proactive, consistent, holistic advising.
Candidates for Election to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board
For more than 35 years, the MIT Faculty Newsletter has served as an independent platform representing the voices and perspectives of MIT faculty across all five Schools of the Institute.
Letters
The reckless actions of a malign US government are causing irreversible damage – in this country and abroad – to so much that is “great” about America, including to its world-leading universities.
