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Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Go Fly A Kite: Academic Freedom and Student Protests
Recently, the Vice President for Research (VPR) reached out to me asking for the content of a project at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) involving Maersk, the world’s...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
How MIT Can Educate the World for the Era of AI
Imagine a world where MIT educates hundreds of millions of learners across the globe on the fundamentals of AI with an application-oriented process. A world where we educate learners of...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
An Invitation to the MIT Council on Academic Freedom
On December 21, 2022, the MIT Faculty adopted a Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. Its first paragraph concludes, With a tradition of celebrating provocative thinking, controversial views,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
An Open Letter to the MIT Community from the MIT Chapter of the AAUP
The MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) calls on MIT to immediately reinstate Prahlad Iyengar’s access to campus, with full rights, and for his case to...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Thoughts on The Pulse
Remember 2020? It was the height of the pandemic. It was a time when we as an institute had to make weighty decisions quickly. It was also a time when...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
The Pulse Update
The last Faculty Newsletter included an article authored by Roger Levy and me explaining many of the facets of The Pulse. As we go deeper into our tenure as the...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
What’s Driving This Bus?
In light of perceived and in some cases explicit threats to universities, we are being challenged, by Derek Bok[1] and others, to explain the ways that we operate. Before we...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
The Pulse: Seeking Broader Retrospective and Prospective Faculty Participation
As free speech on campuses faces scrutiny nationwide, asking tough questions has become more critical than ever. At MIT, The Pulse emerged from the recognition that many faculty members feel...