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Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
The Academic Well-Being Initiative
Dear Faculty Community, We invite you to be a part of our mission to cultivate engaged undergraduate students who emphasize their well-being. The Academic Well-Being Initiative (AWI), led by John...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Sending MIT Students to War with Water Pistols
I am strolling along my wormhole – a hypothetical cylinder from the theory of general relativity that is a topological shortcut between different points in spacetime, say a tunnel that...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
A High Bar in Hard Times
This column is being written in late November, into a future of several weeks from now that seems especially unpredictable. This has been a chaotic semester, as we’ve all experienced...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Interim Report Presented at the October 17, 2024 Institute Faculty Meeting Regarding the FNL
Interim Report on Committee to Review Faculty Newsletter Policies and Procedures October 17, 2024 Susan Silbey (Committee Chair) Amy Brand (Director and Publisher, MIT Press) Nazli Choucri (FNL Editorial Board...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Mary C. Fuller New Chair of the Faculty
Professor Mary C. Fuller will succeed Lily Tsai as Chair of the Faculty on July 1, 2023, after serving as Chair-elect during the current academic year. Mary is Professor of...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MIT AAUP Chapter on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
MIT has been invited by the federal government to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The Introduction to the Compact concludes: “Institutions of higher education are...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Academic Freedom in a Deliberative Democracy
Why is the Trump administration, and the broader anti-intellectual movement that supports him, taking aim at universities? Why are we being asked to sign the “Compact for Academic Excellence in...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
A Call for Solidarity: Queer Lives at MIT
Recently, my synagogue organized a gathering to support parents of LGBTQ+ kids. The youngest mom there described how her nonbinary tween had been viciously bullied at school, while the most...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
The Compact and the Future of MIT
The Faculty Newsletter exists to give MIT faculty a space for reflection and debate. All voices count – especially when the issue at hand touches the foundations of our scholarship...