As our alumni and buddies know higher than anybody, the mental excellence and daring ingenuity of the folks of MIT are the Institute’s best power. Whereas IAP provided its welcome respite, the primary a part of the yr additionally provided inspiring reminders of MIT’s capacity to make a robust, optimistic distinction on this planet. Listed here are simply two examples.
The MIT Shaping the Way forward for Work Initiative
In January, we engaged the MIT neighborhood with a day of fascinating panel discussions to launch the MIT Shaping the Way forward for Work Initiative. Individuals from authorities, trade, and academia explored questions like What sort of work do we would like sooner or later? and How will we form expertise for social good?
The Local weather Challenge at MIT
Many universities are taking over local weather change by launching a brand new faculty or designating a brand new constructing. By the point you learn this letter, we could have introduced a unique method with the Local weather Challenge at MIT, an formidable new effort to focus the power of our neighborhood on reaching a set of vital missions within the struggle to deal with this international menace. This was the central precedence I mentioned in my inaugural remarks—and also you’ll hear far more about it within the months to come back.
Like campus communities throughout the nation, we additionally proceed to take care of heightened tensions over the tragic occasions within the Center East.
As I famous in a letter to the campus neighborhood in early January, occasions of the previous few months have pressure-tested some long-standing methods and assumptions, presenting challenges to our neighborhood and to fulfilling our mission of analysis and schooling. In the very best spirit of MIT, we’re responding with systematic evaluation and enhancements. On the similar time, the community-led effort known as Standing Collectively In opposition to Hate is providing alternatives for schooling and dialogue to assist us construct our expertise as a campus neighborhood in addressing troublesome topics by means of civil dialogue.
To make it straightforward to maintain monitor of campus developments and management communications, we’ve developed the campus updates web page, which you will discover on the prime of the MIT house web page. I’ll have extra to say all through the spring concerning the Institute points that matter most proper now.
