The Design of the New Residence System Lawrence S. Bacow, Chancellor December 8, 1999 (HTML or PDF) Amended Final Report of the Residence System Steering Committee, as presented to Chancellor Bacow on October 6, 1999 (HTML or PDF) Community Feedback meetings with members of the RSSC You can help change the way we live and learn. The MIT community is taking an unprecedented step by inviting all of its members to learn about the residence system and then to reinvent it. We want your experience and insights to influence how we live and learn in 2001, and in 2051. Why remake the residence system? Two significant changes in the way we think and live took place during the past year: the decision to build a new residence hall (web.mit.edu/buildings/residence2001) and the establishment a new set of principles (web.mit.edu/committees/sll/tf.html) to integrate student life and learning. Together, they set the stage for a closer look at the way all campus living groups help develop the "whole student." The purpose of the residence system redesign is to extend to the entire MIT community the opportunities these changes have generated. How will we do it? During IAP, we'll learn about our own residence system and those at other universities. This will give us a common language about and some perspective on our personal experience of the MIT residence system. With this information and some healthy discussion about it, we'll apply what we've learned. Teams of students, parents, professors, administrators, and alumni then huddle to develop fresh approaches for reinventing the residence system design. Team design proposals include recommendations about the elements of the system, their operating principles, and an action plan for carrying out the redesign. To conclude the residence system redesign process, teams present their proposals to the steering committee. All proposals will be posted on this site. The steering committee reviews all proposals in detail and chooses two or more to incorporate into a comprehensive proposal to be submitted to the Chancellor in the Fall. This site provides ways to communicate with steering committee members so that the entire community can comment on proposals throughout their deliberations. Photograpy: Sarah Putnam Information design and writing: John D. Roberts Design: Hecht Design