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Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
A Letter to the Media and to Congress from MIT Faculty: How Fear Has Been Weaponized to Suppress Free Speech
On Monday, March 25th, an excerpt of the below letter was published in The New York Times Letters to the Editor section. We had to significantly edit it in order...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
An Astronaut on the MIT Faculty
...and staff at MIT were similarly unaware. As chair of the Editorial Board of the Faculty Newsletter, Professor King invited me to write the following article about my astronaut career...
Vol. XXXVI No. 1September/October 2023
A Brief History of the Origins of the Faculty Newsletter as it Marks its 35th Anniversary
...editorial policy by the faculty Editorial Board, independent of influence by the MIT administration. Areas where the independence of the Newsletter have been important include the first public release, on...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Interim Report on Committee to Review Faculty Newsletter Policies and Procedures
...Chair), Amy Brand (director and publisher, MIT Press); Nazli Choucri (FNL editorial board member); Roger Levy (faculty chair-elect); Nasser Rabbat (FNL editorial board member). The committee has been meeting regularly...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Improving Our System of Faculty Governance
...responsive to evolving circumstances.” Other opinions have also appeared in the Newsletter. In March 1993, facing financial difficulties similar to the present one, the Editorial Board wrote “Faculty Malaise: A...
Constituting a Continuing National Nuclear Disarmament Coordinating Committee (NDCC)
...Bernard Feld was the founding editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Henry Kendall founded the Union of Concerned Scientists. The Nuclear Weapons Freeze campaign proposal was developed at...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
The Faculty Needs Its Own Committee on Graduate Student Union Negotiations
...Newsletter Editorial Board will hold a Faculty Forum on relating to the new union. Faculty interested in serving on the Program Committee should communicate with Managing Editor David Lewis <fnl@mit.edu>....
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Mary C. Fuller New Chair of the Faculty
...the study of early modern English drama. In a graduate seminar conducted by her advisor Stephen Orgel, a famous editor of Shakespeare’s plays, she and her colleagues encountered among the...
Jonathan King’s 80th Birthday Festschrift
...the members Editorial Board of the MIT Faculty Newsletter who have rewarded my long tenure as Chair of the Editorial Board by making available the MIT Faculty Newsletter website as...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Return to the “Unprecedented”
...commitment to the value of open inquiry, keeping in mind that disagreement is not a failing but, instead, can be a source of knowledge and insight. Editor’s Note: Due to...