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XX No.
5 May / June 2008 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features three articles on MIT finances: "Endowment Spending Policy at MIT," "A New Approach to MIT's Financial Planning," and "A Primer on Indirect Costs." We also offer preliminary results from the 2008 Faculty Survey and an update on the Initiative on Faculty Race and Diversity.
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| Anthropologists Express Concern Over Government Plan to Support Military-Related Research in Universities The newly-formed Network of Concerned Anthropologists comments on the Pentagon's aggressive recruiting of social scientists. |
| Changes in Engineering Education Ernst Frankel laments America's failure to appreciate the importance of teaching engineering fundamentals. |
| Reflections on Nominations and Elections for Faculty Officers and Committees at MIT Michel DeGraff questions MIT's defacto one-party system for nominations and elections. |
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Editorial As the cost for attending college continues to skyrocket, the burden of funding deserving students is being shared by both the students’ families as well as the . . . |
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“The only reason for time,” said Albert Einstein, “is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” At MIT, our faculty seem to be challenging Einstein’s observation . . . |
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Results of the first Institute-wide election by faculty are in, and the newly-elected members of the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board are . . .
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From the Faculty Chair
Have you seen the 2008 MIT Faculty Quality of Life Survey? Or perhaps you are still somewhat unhappy that the survey was so long, and you don’t trust the findings . . . |
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MIT’s Policies and Procedures include provisions designed to ensure that candidates for appointment, promotion, and tenure receive a thorough and fair review of their . . . |
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Editor's Note: As we went to press, Provost L. Rafael Reif announced in an e-mail to all faculty the initiation of a Faculty Renewal Program. We reprint that e-mail below.
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The MIT Investment Management Company, or MITIMCo, coordinates the investment operations of the Institute. The department has the responsibility for the prudent . . . |
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In recent years, the Provost and the Executive Vice President’s teams have been working with faculty leadership and the administration of the academic units to . . . |
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Among university faculty, indirect costs or overhead has about the same appeal as taxation among political candidates. So it seemed appropriate, soon after April 15 . . . |
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Engineering education in America has changed dramatically during recent years. Not only has the number of graduates in traditional engineering disciplines such as . . . |
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Last summer, former MIT professor Hugh Gusterson, nine other anthropologists, and I co-founded the Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA), with the goal of . . . |
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The Officers of the Faculty and the Standing Faculty Committees constitute the core of faculty governance at MIT: These positions and structures are the main venue for . . . |
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The Initiative on Faculty Race and Diversity has been very active over the past academic year. This effort seeks to investigate the experiences of minority faculty . . . |
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MIT Poetry was in his early 30s, rosaceous, / pocky, the Checker / on a Newark pier. He said / I'll be respected / by New Jersey turds / like you reporters |
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In november of 2001, 958 members of the
MIT faculty (all tenure track faculty) were invited bo the Office
of the Provost to complete the HERI faculty survey.
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I have been at MIT a full year now, enough time to experience and appreciate the full depth of your, the faculty’s, commitment to MIT’s world-class teaching and research. |
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Prof. Steve Lerman has had a change of title. As of March 31, 2008, the Dean for Graduate Students (Prof. Lerman) is the Dean for Graduate Education. |
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Letters I read with interest Professor Jonathan King’s article on the Spellings Commission and the issue of standardized testing. I’ve been following the Spellings Commission . . |
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Letters I am writing to comment on the amendment to the motion presented at the April faculty meeting that would allow speaking privileges to professors emeriti. In reviewing . . . |
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