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An ongoing connection with MIT faculty is the single most important connection to the Institute that alumni tell the Alumni Association they want from us. To this end, we have established the Speakers Bureau as a way of channeling these requests from the 90 MIT Clubs worldwide to you. Our goal is to coordinate these requests so as to reduce the number of times we call on any one faculty member, as well as to maximize the funds we have for faculty travel.
Now, back to the opening point – the importance of ongoing connections to you, the faculty. This year, as in years past, we will be calling on you to help us cultivate this very important tie with our population. Beginning this year, to underscore the value we place on your participation in the work of the Alumni Association, all faculty and senior administrator presentations to MIT Clubs will be advertised under the rubric Alumni Seminar.
We realize we ask much of you, and that you give us much. In this regard, you are not only acting as ambassadors for MIT but as volunteers for the Association, and for this we are most grateful. One of the few things we can do for you in return, though, is to pay the expenses of these trips. Perhaps this could even be turned to your advantage if there is that odd trip you would like to make, but that just is not in the department’s budget – say, for a conference. At the present time, we only cover expenses for trips to the North American MIT Clubs. While the Clubs outside of North America are as eager to host faculty guests as are the domestic ones, our budget simply cannot be stretched that far. Therefore, we ask that if you are traveling abroad and are interested in meeting with alumni to please contact me, Louis Alexander at <lalexan@mit.edu>, to see if we could arrange an event for you.
On behalf of the many MIT Clubs who have had the privilege of your contact with them, we thank you for all your efforts to keep MIT in the lives of its alumni. Of course, we hope your interactions with alumni have been equally as rewarding for you as it has been for them.
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