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Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
A Letter to the Media and to Congress from MIT Faculty: How Fear Has Been Weaponized to Suppress Free Speech
On Monday, March 25th, an excerpt of the below letter was published in The New York Times Letters to the Editor section. We had to significantly edit it in order...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Planning for Commencement 2024
The multi-day MIT Commencement ceremony that was introduced in 2022 has been well received. Commencement 2024 will follow the same basic structure as last year’s celebration, with multiple shorter events...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate Students Still Face Significant Disadvantages
Almost half of MIT graduate students arrive from outside the United States and immediately enter a communication-intensive culture here in which they must understand lectures, read voluminous amounts of material,...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Discussing Research Security with Research Groups
The November 2022 report of the MIT China Strategy Group, co-chaired by Richard Lester and Lily Tsai, grappled with how the Institute can preserve its fundamental commitment to open scientific...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Nominate a Colleague to Run for Election to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board
The annual election for membership to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board will be held later this spring. All MIT faculty and emeritus faculty are eligible to be nominated by the...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Bringing It All Back Home
The events in Gaza, one-third of the way around the world, are impacting our students, our faculty and staff, local City Councils, State Legislatures, and even the US Presidential race....
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Spring Updates from the Faculty Committees
As you may know, faculty governance at MIT operates in two modes: through our traditionally open monthly meetings and through a system of standing committees. Last month, I wrote about...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Presentation to the Institute Faculty Meeting
20 March 2024 Madame President, Officers and Members of the Faculty, and Faculty Committees. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to address you on the origins and current...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Our Public Sphere, or, How to Meet as a Faculty
A colleague wrote to us early last semester to complain that Institute faculty meetings are boring. Since then, it’s probably fair to say that meetings have experienced one of their...