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Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Congratulations to our Graduates of the Years of the Pandemic
MIT’s Faculty values and takes particular pride in the accomplishments of your Class of 2023, who have overcome unprecedented stresses in the path to graduation. Many of us find it...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Reflecting as a Student
To The Faculty Newsletter: Concerning Craig Carter’s article, “Never Mind the Firehose, You Can’t Even Lead Them to Water” (MIT Faculty Newsletter, November/December 2022): I am not an expert at...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Commentary on “Never Mind the Firehose, You Can’t Even Lead Them to Water”
To The Faculty Newsletter: This article was very upsetting for me to read. I think it makes vast assumptions about the character and intellect of MIT’s student body without the...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
FNL Editorial Board Election Results: Three Re-elected; One New Member
The results are in for the recent electronic all-faculty/emeritus faculty election for members to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board. The only Institute election open only to all faculty and emeritus...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
The Brave New World of Higher Education
In one capacity or another, I have spent all but the first of my 83 years at school. Until I was 26, I was a student. As such, I thought...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Are MIT Faculty Serious About Addressing AI Bias?
Together with MIT students, staff, and non-MIT colleagues, I recently made an educational video on the ethics of AI bias. It was posted over a month ago on MIT’s OCW...
Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?
Sally Haslanger, Jonathan A. King, Ceasar McDowell, Nasser Rabbat, Balakrishnan Rajagopal The war in the Middle East is forcing us to confront the often-silenced dialogue around Israel and Palestine. Regrettably,...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?
The war in the Middle East is forcing us to confront the often-silenced dialogue around Israel and Palestine. Regrettably, the world has been forced into this reckoning by two unimaginable...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Our Public Sphere, or, How to Meet as a Faculty
A colleague wrote to us early last semester to complain that Institute faculty meetings are boring. Since then, it’s probably fair to say that meetings have experienced one of their...