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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...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Where do we go from here?
...King, Jr. Sincerely, Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85 Vice President for Equity and Inclusion [Editor’s Note: The above is reprinted from the February 2025 edition on the ICEO News.]...
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...
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. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups – the Ins and Outs
...by the faculty in October 2025. With the Committee’s support, the Newsletter held a special election from February 10-17, 2026 to fill five vacancies on its Editorial Board. Out of...
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. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Interview with Ragon Institute Director Dr. Bruce Walker
The following interview by Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board Chair Jonathan Alan King (JAK) with Dr. Bruce Walker (BW) was held on May 18, 2020. JAK: You’re part of the Ragon...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Reflections on the MIT Research Enterprise
When I started as MIT’s vice president for research, on May 1, 2024, one of the first things I did was collect data to help me understand the state of...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Questioning the “Mea Culpa”: Mathematically and Administratively
...deliberate manipulation of the reader, and at best a confusion of the role of Gaussian distributions in statistics. Third, I question the data that was used. The data itself is...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
MITx SPOCs for Gaza
...Lecturer Ana Bell Data Analysis for Social Scientists, led by Professor Esther Duflo (2019 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Senior Lecturer Sara Ellison Calculus 1A (differentiation) and Calculus 1B (integration),...