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Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Looking Back
This is my final column as chair, and these are typically a time for taking stock. Our institution, like most of American higher education and like many of the entities...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
The MIT Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC): Partnering with Faculty for Student Success
The Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC) aims to support MIT students from matriculation through graduation by way of proactive, consistent, holistic advising. Advising within the academic departments is decentralized, and students...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Statement by Some Members of the MIT Council on Academic Freedom on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
As members of The MIT Council on Academic Freedom, we generally support the Compact as an opportunity for the MIT administration to promote its obligations of intellectual diversity, non-discrimination, institutional...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
MIT Runs on Engineers (and Worry)
A late-summer dispatch from a campus where even the downhill picks up speed It’s mid-August at MIT, and nothing is flat — not the skyline, not the sidewalks, not even...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MITCAF Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
MITCAF statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Summary. The MIT Council on Academic Freedom objects to the proposed draft compact between the federal government and MIT....
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
For MIT and Country
On October 1st, the administration in Washington invited MIT and eight other institutions to sign a “compact” that would offer favorable governmental treatment in exchange for our commitment to “pursuing...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MIT’s Faustian Bargain
There are many ways for a university to lose its soul. Some do it slowly, by trimming values until only the trimmings remain. Others do it quickly, with a pen....
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Letters
When Protest Becomes Intimidation To The Faculty Newsletter: “This is Not an Editorial” may not have been an editorial, and it certainly was not a pipe. However, to write “Instead,...