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XXV No.
2 November / December 2012 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter focuses on the report by the Task Force on Community Engagement with MIT 2030 Planning. We also offer a new feature: "Beyond the Classroom," as well as articles on graduate students and the Office of Faculty Support.
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| Task Force on Community Engagement with 2030 Planning Faculty Chair Sam Allen offers his insights concerning the Task Force. |
| Graduate Student Life, Research Productivity, and the MITIMCo Proposal Jonathan King continues the discussion of the need for on-campus graduate student housing. |
| MIT: First in the World, Sixth in the U.S.? MIT's Office of Institutional Research explains the oftentimes confusing and contradictory college rankings. |
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Editorial The thoughtful and penetrating report from the Faculty Task Force on Community Engagement in MIT 2030 Planning is published in full in this issue. We share . . . |
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Beyond the Classroom I know an MIT faculty member who grew up in a poor Latino neighborhood, whose immigrant mother had only an eighth-grade education and whose father never . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
My biggest aspiration in taking on the role of Chair of the Faculty has been to improve faculty/administration communication, collaboration, and trust. Whether justified . . . |
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Few faculty, students, or administrators doubt the advantage of a residential campus over a commuter campus for undergraduate education. The ability of students . . . |
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Over the past two years, we have had extensive discussions with graduate students at monthly “Dinners and Dialogue,” a number of focus groups, panels and many . . . |
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Our name says it all – the Office of Faculty Support (OFS) is here to help faculty in your educational endeavors. OFS staff members assist in developing and coordinating . . . |
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Manufacturing and science have converged and the new manufacturing environment has little in common with traditional ways of making things. Similarly, it is no . . . |
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Many organizations create and publish rankings of institutions of higher education. They range from the trivial – Princeton Review’s top party schools – to the much . . . |
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Housemasters have been at the heart of the MIT graduate student experience since the 1930s, when Dr. Avery Ashdown (PhD ’24) was selected as the first live-in . . . |
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In a practice begun last spring, the Office of the Faculty Chair publishes a biannual article in this Newsletter summarizing the work of the Standing Committees of the . . . |
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In May 2009, my fellow co-director, Ed Crawley and I, wrote an article in the Faculty Newsletter describing a new program housed in the School of Engineering. |
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The Office of Faculty Support is requesting proposals for projects for the 2013-2014 academic year that improve the quality of teaching, enrich students’ learning . . . |
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Leisure time with friends and family is precious, which is why the MIT Activities Committee (MITAC) is pleased for offer discounted tickets to cultural and . . .
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Letters I hope that humanities will be included in any edX course offerings. I was one of the first students to enroll in the UK's Open University (OU) when it first began in the . . . |
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