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Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Improvements in Policies for Promotion and Tenure are Overdue
How can we improve MIT’s promotion and tenure processes? This has been a priority on my agenda since the beginning of my term as Chair of the Faculty. In the...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Strong MIT 2020 Campus Research Performance
Last March, MIT’s research enterprise quickly reduced its on-campus research activity to about 10% of normal capacity as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic. By April, plans were underway...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Highlights from the MIT 2020 Quality of Life Survey
MIT has administered five major Quality of Life (QOL) surveys. The first survey of faculty and staff was run by the ad hoc Committee on Work and Family in 1989....
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Push the Pause Button on Teleconference Interviews for New Faculty Hires
Teleconference interviews are unfair to all faculty candidates, especially those with children at home. Evidence is mounting – the brunt of this unfairness falls upon female candidates. Working and Zooming...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Moving MIT Forward; Supporting Our Students in Making Change; Our New Website
Moving MIT Forward MIT’s students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff, and administrators are facing the task of renewing education and research under conditions of extraordinary difficulty. There are few...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Mission, Safety, Equity: Navigating Fall 2020 at MIT Libraries
Like you, we in the MIT Libraries find ourselves in a most unusual fall semester. Over the past eight months, we have aimed to balance the research and learning mission...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Beyond Risk Management? How to Learn from MIT’s International Engagements
I was inspired by Richard Lester’s article in the May/June 2020 Faculty Newsletter (“On the Risks and Benefits of New International Engagements”) in which he laid out a comprehensive process...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
MISTI Global Seed Funds Call for Proposals Launched September 14
The MISTI Global Seed Funds program enables participating teams to collaborate with international peers, either at MIT or abroad, to develop and launch joint research projects. MISTI GSF is comprised...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
On the Risks and Benefits of New International Engagements
I write to report on how the Faculty and Administration have together been evaluating the risks of new international engagements – and strengthening our processes for doing so – in...