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XXII No.
1 September / October 2009 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter offers a timeline of the events surrounding the difficulties experienced by Student Support Services, a piece on how to deal with global warming, and an article on MIT's UPOP (Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program).
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| MIT Fourth in Latest U.S. News Poll MIT remained fourth (tied with CalTech, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania) in the latest U.S. News & World Report poll on undergraduate national universities. |
| Testing our Capacity to Govern, Change, and Be True to Our Values Incoming Faculty Chair Tom Kochan offers insights he's gained in his first three months in office. |
| OpenCourseWare: Dealing with Financial Challenges MIT's much heralded online course offerings must deal with financial difficulties similar to the rest of the Institute. |
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Editorial At this time, all U.S. social institutions, colleges, and universities are feeling the pressure of the economic downturn. The convergence of critical trends . . . |
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The education, development, and creativity of our students is central to a university’s mission. In recent decades pressures on students have intensified, particularly . . . |
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Teach Talk MIT has a long history of integrating writing instruction throughout its undergraduate curriculum. However, strangely in keeping with MIT’s long tradition in acoustics . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
I would like to use this Newsletter column to share some impressions gained in my first three months in the role as your faculty chair about the unique constellation . . . |
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Budget reductions, changes required to bring staffing in line with resources, a commitment to excellence, and a goal of keeping MIT as a wonderful place to . . . |
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This month the Class of 2013 started classes at MIT and I thought back to my own freshman year in a Midwestern college. At the time, the outside world . . . |
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The International House for Global Leadership, or iHouse, is a living-learning community consisting of 21 undergraduate students passionate about . . . |
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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is widely acknowledged both around the world and here on campus as a tremendously successful act of intellectual philanthropy . . . |
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Letters The recent letter on the state of the Institute from President Susan Hockfield has gotten me thinking about fairness in the sacrifice of various stakeholders as we adjust to . . . |
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MIT remained fourth (tied with CalTech, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania) in the latest U.S. News & World Report undergraduate national universities . . . |
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At its meeting on May 20, the Institute faculty voted to simplify the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Requirement, one of the General Institute . . . |
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To help reduce paper consumption at MIT, beginning this year the Reference Publications Office is changing the way it produces the MIT Course Catalog. |
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Global warming, caused by a ring of greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide) surrounding the earth, is, according to experts working on this problem, a threat . . . |
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“Just as it was about to begin, the spring term was abruptly aborted Tuesday by the area’s worst blizzard in almost a century…. Thus students missed the first week of . . . |
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The tragic accidental death last winter of UCLA researcher Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji after an accident in her laboratory, has prompted faculty and administration at . . . |
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According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), just 19.7 percent of 2009 graduates who applied for a job had procured one by May . . . |
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. . . the faculty regulates examinations and assignments for all subjects. |
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