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Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Trend of Women Faculty, Postdocs, and Students
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
How the Rights of MIT Student Protesters Were Undermined (And How to Fix Things Moving Forward)
Editor’s Note: The following exposition was requested by the Faculty Newsletter as a Special Feature and accounts for its necessary unusual length. On May 8, 2024, administrators at MIT began...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
MIT’s New Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was formed in January 1915. John Dewey (professor of education and psychology at Columbia) was selected as its first president, and Arthur Lovejoy...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Return to the “Unprecedented”
To new members of the community, welcome to MIT! And to the rest, welcome back! After last year, we all needed a rest, and probably not all of us got...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Four Elected, One Re-elected to FNL Editorial Board
Four new members and one current member were elected to the Faculty Newsletter editorial board In the Institute-wide elections held last spring. Nearly twenty-eight percent of the faculty and emeritus...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
On Being a Head of House
On the origins During the waning weeks of summer, thousands of MIT students replay a phenomenon as old as formal education itself – arriving at their new academic home. Before...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Living By Our Values
Last November, alongside colleagues from diverse backgrounds, we wrote to the MIT community acknowledging the pain so many were experiencing in light of tragic events in the Middle East. We...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Improving Our System of Faculty Governance
Rafael L. Bras was chair of the MIT faculty from 2003-2005. Following is a reprint of his “From The Faculty Chair” column from the February/March 2004 issue of the MIT...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
A Message From the Keepers of the Pulse of the MIT Faculty
The Pulse of the Faculty of MIT was originally conceived by Michael Short (Nuclear Science & Engineering) and Anette “Peko” Hosoi (Mechanical Engineering), and rolled out with the support of...