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Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
Nationwide Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme
During the pandemic, an unemployment insurance fraud scheme has been targeting unemployment assistance programs across the country. Those who are committing the fraud are believed to be using stolen personal...
Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
The MIT Corporation: Reviewing Governance
The MIT Corporation is the Institute’s governing board and, at full strength, has 78 members. Because it is difficult for such a large body to be nimble, much of the...
Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
MIT’s Plan for the Spring Semester
On November 2, 2020, I wrote to the MIT community to share our current plan for the spring semester. I reiterated the principles that guided our decision-making, described the lessons...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
The Ad Hoc Committees on Principles and Processes
The Ad Hoc Committee to Review MIT Gift Processes, which we call the Process Committee, was convened in mid-October 2019 by Provost Marty Schmidt. At the same time, Faculty Chair...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Gratitude for our Community’s Commitment to Reinventing MIT in the Era of Covid
At the September 16, 2020 Institute faculty meeting, I shared the image below as a way to convey the breadth of Covid-19’s impact on our mission and operations – and...
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
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...