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Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
What’s Driving This Bus?
In light of perceived and in some cases explicit threats to universities, we are being challenged, by Derek Bok[1] and others, to explain the ways that we operate. Before we...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Thoughts on The Pulse
Remember 2020? It was the height of the pandemic. It was a time when we as an institute had to make weighty decisions quickly. It was also a time when...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
Planning for Commencement 2023
MIT introduced a new format for Commencement last year. Rather than awarding all degrees at a single marathon event on Killian Court, the practice prior to the 2020 and 2021...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Why There Were No Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board Elections Last Spring
Some of you may be wondering why the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board elections didn’t happen this May. The FNL Nominations Committee went through a process of selecting a slate of...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MIT’s Faustian Bargain
There are many ways for a university to lose its soul. Some do it slowly, by trimming values until only the trimmings remain. Others do it quickly, with a pen....
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Letters
When Protest Becomes Intimidation To The Faculty Newsletter: “This is Not an Editorial” may not have been an editorial, and it certainly was not a pipe. However, to write “Instead,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
First US Destination of MIT PhDs Over the Last Five Years
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
J-WAFS: From an Idea to a Program
Remarks by Professor John H. Lienhard V at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) 22 May 2025 In 2005, I began...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Reply to Prof. Hutchinson on Arguing Ad Hominem
Professor Hutchinson claims that the authors of the open letter to Professor Alex Byrne[1] commit the logical fallacy of arguing ad hominem. To commit this fallacy is to illicitly exploit...