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XXIII No.
2 November / December 2010 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features commentary by the Chair of the Faculty on "MIT Promotion and Tenure Processes," an update on Student Support Services, and a piece in support of the new START treaty.
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| Teach Talk: Looking at the Numbers An analysis of how the different teaching elements in Introduction to Artificial Intelligence affect student performance. |
| Finding Appropriate Support for Students with Disabilities A case study on how MIT approaches teaching students with disabilities. |
| MIT EMS: A Student-Run Jewel MIT's totally student-run ambulance service. |
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Editorial MIT’s international activities – research programs, educational initiatives, and collaborative projects – continue to expand as part of the Institute’s increasingly . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
In spring 2009, my predecessor Bish Sanyal asked Bob Silbey and me to co-chair a special faculty committee on MIT’s Promotion and Tenure Processes. A brief . . . |
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In August 2009, Chancellor Phillip Clay and the Chair of the MIT faculty, Professor Tom Kochan, charged the Task Force on Student Support Services (S3) "to assess . . . |
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The new START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is a critical and essential step in strengthening U.S. security. |
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On April 30, 2011 MIT will hold an “Open House” as part of its 150th anniversary celebration. Opening our campus to visitors was an MIT tradition that began . . . |
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America, unlike most developed countries, uses road transport for most freight transport. China, Japan, Korea, and Western Europe all make extensive use of . . . |
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Teach Talk Each week, students in 6.034, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, attend, or are supposed to attend, two lectures, a recitation section, a tutorial, and a quiz . . . |
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On July 1, 2010, the Textbook Information Provision (TIP), in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA), put new legal requirements on all universities. |
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In March 2009 MIT faculty voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles freely available on the Web. That vote, however, was just the first step. The task . . . |
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Teaching students with disabilities is often not much different from teaching students without disabilities. Yet sometimes a student’s specific disability makes it . . . |
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Hypothetical conversation overheard between two students at the Lobby 7 coffee shop during Fall Term. Elizabeth: “Hey Alex. Where are you headed?” Alex: ". . . |
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The International Center for Integrative Systems (www.integrativesystems.com) will be launched later this fall in Cambridge, a few miles from MIT. The Center, started . . . |
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Last spring, as the MIT ambulance was responding to an emergency medical call on campus, a separate emergency call was placed to the MIT Police for an ill faculty . . . |
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During the 2009-10 academic year, the Faculty Advisory Committee on Learning Management Systems (LMS) evaluated several options for meeting the Institute’s . . . |
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The Center for Work, Family & Personal Life announces an enhancement to their resource and referral service. Provided by Workplace Options, Work-Life . . . |
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Letters Thank you for your efforts in the latest MIT Faculty Newsletter (September/October 2010). And thank you for your comments about clean energy. I write to correct . . . |
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Letters I just received the Newsletter and read some of the articles, including your editorial, and I was very surprised about what you wrote. There is not a single mention of . . . |
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Are you aware that 15 percent of MIT’s alumni population lives abroad? And many of them may be professionals in your field or your former students. The MIT Alumni . . . |
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The results of the National Research Council (NRC) assessment of U.S. research doctoral programs were released in September. The much-anticipated results . . . |
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