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XXIX No.
1 September / October 2016 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features commentary by the Officers of the Faculty on last spring's Faculty Quality of Life Survey, "MIT Asked, We Answered," as well as a report on MIT's international activities by Associate Provost R. K. Lester, "Global MIT."
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| The MIT-Haiti Initiative: An International Engagement The importance of language in the educational system in Haiti is discussed by Haynes Miller. A translation in Kreyòl is also provided. |
| Highlights from the 2016 Faculty and Staff Quality of Life Survey MIT's Office of Institutional Research provides highlights from last spring's Faculty and Staff Quality of Life Survey. |
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Editorial In September, presidential candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Jill Stein returned their responses to a set of 20 key science policy issues . . . |
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Welcome back from what we hope has been an invigorating summer, and all best wishes for the new academic year. The three of us have spent time over the . . . |
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The MIT community is magnificently but unselfconsciously multinational. With 42% of our faculty, 43% of our graduate students, and 65% of our post-docs hailing from . . . |
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I had the following dream the other night. I was getting my 10-year-old daughter ready for school. School was important: an education was the only pathway to a better . . . |
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Editor's Note: This is a translation into Kreyòl of "The MIT-Haiti Initiative: An International Engagement." |
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The announcement by Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz that beginning September 1, MIT employees received free use of transit as a benefit . . . |
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On June 14, 2016, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz announced the inception of Access MIT, a new vision for commuting to and from MIT. |
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Last November, we recorded in these pages a notable difference in the rates at which men and women submitted Maker Portfolios as supplements to their freshman . . . |
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The Council on Family and Work monitors the state of family and work life at MIT and works to ensure MIT is a place where faculty and staff can have fulfilling and . . . |
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Provost Martin Schmidt is calling for nominations of faculty as 2017 MacVicar Faculty Fellows. The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes MIT faculty who have . . . |
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The Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education seeks preliminary proposals for faculty-led projects to enhance the educational experience of MIT undergraduates. |
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The Faculty regulates examinations and assignments for all subjects. |
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The MIT Activities Committee (MITAC) invites all MIT faculty, and the entire MIT community, to its recently inaugurated new “Ticket Office” along the Charles Vest . . . |
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