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Vol. XXXVI No. 1September/October 2023
With the GSU Contract, A New Future for Graduate Workers at MIT
On Labor Day, the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU) publicly announced our plans to strike in an email to graduate students and communicated our intent to escalate a strike threat....
Vol. XXXVI No. 1September/October 2023
Congratulations on Reaching a First Contract Agreement
As faculty members who have studied and been directly involved in labor-management relations for many years, we are very proud of the good work done by the MIT administration, the...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
In Defense of Learning, Research, and Free Inquiry
Since their emergence in medieval times, universities have served as outposts of independent thought, resisting pressures from the Church and State. Following the industrial revolution, universities in France, Great Britain,...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Mea Culpa
I made a mistake. And I would like to apologize to everyone who was at the Institute faculty meeting of February 21, 2024. During that meeting I forgot to call...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
No More MIT Research for Israel’s Ministry of Defense
On April 19th, members of MIT’s Graduate Student Union – UE Local 256 (GSU) democratically adopted a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the MIT community to...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Questioning the “Mea Culpa”: Mathematically and Administratively
I am a first-year PhD student in the EECS department studying quantum information. I was also, along with other students, ejected from the February 14 Institute faculty meeting without reasonable...
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. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Statement by MIT Faculty in Support of the Student Encampment on Kresge Lawn
As the Alliance of Concerned Faculty at MIT we support and affirm our students’ right to peaceful political expression and support their rights to free speech. We thus express our...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate Students Still Face Significant Disadvantages
Almost half of MIT graduate students arrive from outside the United States and immediately enter a communication-intensive culture here in which they must understand lectures, read voluminous amounts of material,...