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XXIII No.
4 March / April 2011 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features commentary on education in America. Our editorial, "Protecting Education in America," as well as articles by Provost Reif and Faculty Chair Kochan explore the changing view of both public and private education, and what we need to do to ensure their continued strength and growth.
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| About DSpace@MIT Did you know that MIT has one of the largest digital repositories in the world? Director of Libraries Ann Wolpert provides a brief overview and some fascinating statistics. |
| Free Market Apocalypse: Safeguarding the World from Large Disasters Ernst Frankel explores what the BP Horizon oil spill and the recent Japanese nuclear power plant disaster have in common. |
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Editorial The domestic news is filled with accounts of the Tea Party efforts in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Florida to cut public investment in public services, often with a focus . . . |
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An article in the January/February 2011 Faculty Newsletter introduced MIT’s approach to international engagement. The article pointed out, among other things . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
The recently released report on MIT Women in Science and Engineering celebrated the progress made since the original 1999 and 2002 reports, while cautioning . . . |
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The MIT Department of Physics is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and student populations to improve our excellence and to better serve the society . . . |
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Practical Considerations for the Involvement of Graduate Students in MIT’s International Engagements The topic of international engagements has been one of recent conversation throughout the MIT community, with discussions taking place on the opportunities . . . |
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In early fall, Information Services and Technology (IS&T), in partnership with the Offices of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE), Graduate Education . . . |
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While free market economies thrive and basic capitalism works well, it does require effective regulation to police or curtail corruption, self-serving, and harm to people . . . |
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DSpace@MIT is an innovation of the MIT Libraries that was launched in 2002 to address the growing challenge of collecting, preserving, and distributing MIT’s . . . |
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Letters I was disappointed to see the NRC rankings data given prominence in the recent Faculty Newsletter. There is widespread agreement that the study was deeply . . . |
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MIT was ranked 3rd in the recent World University Rankings 2010-2011 by the Times Higher Education. Harvard University was ranked first followedby the California . . . |
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