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The MIT Faculty Newsletter (FNL) is a publication of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since MIT faculty have neither a faculty senate nor faculty union nor...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Questioning the Merits of President Reif
I am wondering whether others share my feeling that it is time to replace MIT President Leo Rafael Reif. From a purely financial perspective, Reif has done a splendid job....
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Education for Non-Robots
I jokingly call what you see in the photo the “derobotizer” setup (more on that below). I made it for my wife after the pandemic forced her to shift to...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
On the 20th Anniversary of OpenCourseWare: How It Began
On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles Vest announced that the Institute would make course material from virtually all undergraduate and graduate courses “accessible to anyone anywhere in the world,...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The More Challenging DEI – A Befitting Role for MIT
I read with interest MIT’s new DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) plan circulated by the Provost. It is an impressive document and obviously the product of a lot of thought. Unfortunately,...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
What Will Remain Post-Pandemic?
As universities return to in-classroom teaching, what practices that emerged during the pandemic will carry over? While we are all anxious to get back to teaching and working on campus,...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Don’t Renew the ICBM Force, Eliminate It
A pressing issue that is currently under consideration in Washington, DC is whether to replace the aging deployment of InterContinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) with a new fleet of missiles. The...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The Role and Reach of the MIT Faculty Newsletter; Thank You
Very few university faculties across the nation have an independent newsletter for their expression. Given that MIT plays a somewhat distinctive role in the national and international academic community, we...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Greetings to our Graduates in the Year of the Pandemic
What a year! For many of us it is hard to imagine the difficulties you have navigated through this past year of the pandemic. MIT’s faculty values and takes particular...