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Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
A Painful Personal Reality and a Call to MIT Faculty
On August 17, my host brother from Gaza, Mohammed Masbah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike with his mom, dad, and brother. He stayed with my family in the US...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
How MIT Can Educate the World for the Era of AI
Imagine a world where MIT educates hundreds of millions of learners across the globe on the fundamentals of AI with an application-oriented process. A world where we educate learners of...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
How the Rights of MIT Student Protesters Were Undermined (And How to Fix Things Moving Forward)
Editor’s Note: The following exposition was requested by the Faculty Newsletter as a Special Feature and accounts for its necessary unusual length. On May 8, 2024, administrators at MIT began...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
An Invitation to the MIT Council on Academic Freedom
On December 21, 2022, the MIT Faculty adopted a Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. Its first paragraph concludes, With a tradition of celebrating provocative thinking, controversial views,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
An Open Letter to the MIT Community from the MIT Chapter of the AAUP
The MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) calls on MIT to immediately reinstate Prahlad Iyengar’s access to campus, with full rights, and for his case to...
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. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
The Pulse Update
The last Faculty Newsletter included an article authored by Roger Levy and me explaining many of the facets of The Pulse. As we go deeper into our tenure as the...
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
The Pulse: Seeking Broader Retrospective and Prospective Faculty Participation
As free speech on campuses faces scrutiny nationwide, asking tough questions has become more critical than ever. At MIT, The Pulse emerged from the recognition that many faculty members feel...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
MITx SPOCs for Gaza
In the course of its current campaign against Palestine, Israel has systematically demolished the once thriving educational infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. More than 10,000 university students from Gaza have...