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XXIII No.
5 May / June 2011 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter offers a report on an FNL-sponsored forum, "Can Nuclear Disarmament Become a Reality?" Outgoing Faculty Chair Tom Kochan takes a look at faculty governance at the Institute. Ernst Frankel offers some suggestions that might help prevent the tornado and hurricane tragedies our country has been experiencing.
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| An MIT Housing Dream Finally Comes True Former MIT Planning Director Bob Simha tells the arduous tale of attempts to build an off-campus MIT community. |
| Technology Enabled Transformation in the MIT Learning Experience Our Teach Talk feature offers suggestions for Integrating living and learning through technology-enabled, residence-based education. |
| Sam Allen New Chair of the Faculty POSTCO Professor of Physical Metallurgy Samuel M. Allen is the new Chair of the MIT Faculty. |
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Editorial
Greetings to you, the graduates and your families! We share with the thousands of families gathered on the oval for MIT's 2011 commencement, the excitement . . . . |
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Following procedures outlined in the Policies and Procedures of the MIT Faculty Newsletter, an Institute-wide election for new members of the FNL Editorial Board . . . . |
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The dream was to create a residence close to the campus where members of the MIT family, across the age spectrum, could build a convenient and comfortable community. |
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In 1963, Jerry Wiesner, at the time MIT Institute Professor and special assistant to President Kennedy, met with the President and explained to him that because of . . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
Over the past two years I have come to appreciate the unique nature of the MIT governance structure and process. I would like to use my last column as . . . . |
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Report of the Faculty Policy Committee This term, members of the Faculty Policy Committee visited with faculty in a cross section of departments to gain an informal sense of the issues of greatest interest . . . . |
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On behalf of the MIT faculty we want to thank the many staff, faculty, and students who worked tirelessly to organize and manage this year’s 150th Anniversary events. |
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Teach Talk Last fall, Provost Reif charged the MIT Council on Educational Technology (MITCET) to develop a strategy that would fundamentally enhance the educational . . . . |
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Over the past several years, MIT faculty members have created classes in the humanities, arts, and social sciences geared specifically towards first-year . . . . |
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Samuel M. Allen, the POSCO Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will succeed Tom Kochan as Chair of the Faculty. |
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The utter destruction of homes and other buildings in Mississippi and other southern states, with an associated loss of lives and businesses, reopens an old question . . . . |
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As of fall 2010, MIT’s subject evaluation system went entirely online and a new “Who’s Teaching What” (WTW) Web-based application is now being used to improve the . . . . |
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The Center for Work, Family & Personal Life has changed its name to the MIT Work-Life Center. “The change was a natural outgrowth of our plans to create new . . . . |
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