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Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Developing Students Who Make an Impact: Introducing the SoE Technical Leadership and Communication (TLC) Programs
In September of 2024, President Sally Kornbluth announced the MIT Presidential Initiatives, a set of collaborative efforts “to empower faculty to pursue their most innovative ideas, collaborate with others outside...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Reflections on the Alhambra
Some years ago, I spent part of my sabbatical in Granada. I resided in the Carmen de la Victoria, the residence for visiting professors at the University of Granada. The...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Finance, Freedom, and the Faculty Post-Compact: The Case for Independence and Inclusion
MIT has adapted its resource model whenever the world shifted around it. Post-Compact, we might do so again – exploring paced expansion over austerity to secure academic freedom, widen access,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
Moving On
The elections are over. The voters — the faculty — have spoken. We begin with gratitude. Eleven colleagues stepped forward as candidates in this election, placing their names before the...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Faculty Governance: From Recognition to Representation
I begin this first column as Chair of the Faculty with a brief update on the work of faculty governance during the academic year’s first three months. We have, by...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Lecturing in China
In the fall of 1987, released from teaching by a Guggenheim Fellowship and invited to China to lecture as an American feminist intellectual, I visited there for two months, lecturing...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Join, or Die
Image by Benjamin Nathans In this brilliant adaptation of a 1754 political cartoon and woodcut by Ben Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania historian Benjamin Nathans reimagines the problem of collective...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Reconstruction, Reclamation, and the New Compromise
After the Civil War, the United States entered a brief but transformative era known as Reconstruction, an ambitious national experiment in democracy and racial inclusion. For the first time in...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
The Endless Frontier 2
The “compact” MIT was invited to sign, along with eight other universities, is flawed, to put it mildly. Setting aside the issue of conditioning “priority for grants” on compliance with...