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Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
The Faculty Needs Its Own Committee on Graduate Student Union Negotiations
The relationship between graduate students and their faculty mentors is the most sensitive, important, and most productive component of MIT’s academic and intellectual fabric. It is totally unacceptable that the...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Palestine, MIT, and Free Speech: A Letter from Student Activists to Our Professors
We are the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), a student group that is the product of years of advocacy efforts by Palestinians and Palestinian rights activists. The CAA first began...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Faculty and Staff Views on the Choice of the Next MIT President: A Recap of Last Spring’s Faculty Newsletter Zoom Forum
On May 24, 2022, the Faculty Newsletter hosted a Zoom forum on the selection of the next president of MIT. Following is an abbreviated version of that presentation. Introduction Jonathan...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Faculty Newsletter Business
Upcoming Editorial Board Elections Later this fall, we will be holding elections for new members of the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board. As always, these elections will be held electronically, and...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Prof. Vera Kistiakowsky, 1928-2021
Prof. Vera Kistiakowsky passed away on December 11, 2021 at the age of 93. Dr. Kistiakowsky was the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at MIT (1972)....
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Lessons on Governance from Yale
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Len Gutkin, “The Review: The Report Yale Doesn’t Want You to See” (August 22, 2022) is very illuminating about how...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Concern with MIT’s Response to Professor Abbot
To The Faculty Newsletter: As a mother of a 2015 graduate, I fully agree with the opinions of Dr. Geil, and with the open letter. We had sent our son...