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2022 Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Rebuilding a Broader Movement
With Congress appropriating funds for new and upgraded nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the need to counter these misguided policies has become acute. The 2022 Conference will follow the general...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Project Indigenous MIT
In October 2021, a committee led by Professor Dan Hastings issued MIT’s “Values Statement.” Their committee, absent of Native/Indigenous participants, issued a statement that suggests that we at MIT will:...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
Creating the MIT Values Statement
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to share with you the MIT Values Statement, the product of more than a year’s worth of broad consultation and serious debate by a group...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Leadership, Management, and Education at MIT (redux)
This article is based on Professor Eagar’s original 2004 article (MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XVI No. 5, April/May 2004) with new thoughts added by Professor Alex Slocum. Both are senior...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Faculty-Corporation Engagement in the Triangle of MIT’s System of Shared Governance
Why MIT’s system of shared governance works Engineers know about the strength of a triangle. It is a shape that is not easily distorted under pressure. Structures that use them...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
from the MIT 2021 Commuter Survey
Limited to respondents who answered mode of travel for all five days of the week. Data as of October 2021. Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
The vote of graduate students to unionize may represent a sea change in the relationships of graduate students to their peers, their faculty mentors, and to the MIT administration. We...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
On Closing the MIT Pharmacy
The stark statement announcing the closing of the MIT Pharmacy was like pouring concrete over green grass. Stunned silence – powerful and persistent – has been followed by disbelief, disappointment,...