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Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
MIT AAUP’s Response to the Attacks on Higher Education
American higher education is under attack by the Trump administration. Faculty, postdocs, students, and staff are hurting. Labs are at risk of closing. Research is grinding to a halt. Jobs...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism*
As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Reflections on an Encounter Outside Wichita, Kansas
Around twenty years ago my wife and I took our children to visit her brother and his family in Wichita, Kansas. We were living in Medford at the time, near...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Academic Freedom is What Makes Our Nation Great*
Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced back to medieval European universities, were never certain. Back...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Number of Published Articles by Field*
*Current MIT Faculty Between 2004-2023 Some works may be counted in multiple fields classifications Fields as classified by OpenAlex Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Letters
The Real Price of Pre-Emptive Budget Cuts To the FNL Editorial Board: The reckless actions of a malign US government are causing irreversible damage – in this country and abroad...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Candidates for Election to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board
For more than 35 years, the MIT Faculty Newsletter has served as an independent platform representing the voices and perspectives of MIT faculty across all five Schools of the Institute....
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
New Home for the MIT Music Program
The Music Program within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences serves more than 1,500 MIT students who enroll in music classes each academic year. More than 500...