Dear students, As you may have heard from your departments, the UROP Office, or your peers, MIT recently issued guidelines for student appointments for work or research conducted outside the U.S. After speaking with student leaders last week, I realized that many of you have questions about the motivations for, and implementation of, the guidelines.…
Dear Colleagues, In discussion with the Provost, Chancellor, and School Deans, we have established the new ranges for the monthly stipends of full-time research and teaching assistants for the 2020-21 academic year (AY2021). These ranges reflect a 2.9% increase consistent with the 2.9% increase recommended by the Graduate Student Council (GSC) Graduate Stipends Committee. Departments…
Dear Students, As you know, pre-registration for summer and fall terms typically opens on May 1st. However, due to the ongoing disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, departments are still developing their fall teaching plans. The Institute is weighing various scenarios with the goal of providing an excellent learning experience for students and safely managing…
Dear Students, As you know, pre-registration for summer and fall terms typically opens on May 1st. However, due to the ongoing disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, departments are still developing their fall teaching plans. The Institute is weighing various scenarios with the goal of providing an excellent learning experience for students and safely managing…
March 10, 2020 To: All faculty and instructors cc: Undergraduate and graduate administrators and officers, academic officers, deans, and department heads Colleagues, As mentioned in our letter to you yesterday afternoon, we now have guidance available to help you prepare for remote teaching: http://teachremote.mit.edu. Thanks to our amazing colleagues in Open Learning, The Teaching + Learning…
March 9, 2020 To: Deans and Department Heads cc: All faculty and instructors, undergraduate and graduate administrators and officers, academic officers Dear Deans and Department Heads, This note is a follow-up to the posture and policies announced by President Reif last Thursday as MIT continues to adapt to the spread of COVID-19. In this message…
Dear Colleagues, As President Reif outlined in his letter to the community last evening, while the risk to the MIT community is low, we are closely monitoring the global spread of COVID-19 and are developing plans to offer as much educational continuity as we can in situations where students, faculty, and staff may not be able to…
Dear Colleagues, I am writing to let you know that after 38 years at MIT, Registrar and Senior Associate Dean Mary Callahan will retire this summer. She is truly an institution within the Institute, overseeing a remarkable portfolio over the years: academic records, student registration, degree audits, grades and transcripts, subject evaluation, diplomas, class scheduling,…
Updated: February 6, 2020 TL; DR: Making progress on advancing support for students in acute financial distress and helping those with children; Graduate Families Support Working Group report released with key commitments: dedicated staff person for graduate students with children, portable grants, intentional data collection. Dear Graduate Students, Happy new semester! I am writing to…
Dear Graduate Students, I am pleased to share the interim report from the Graduate Family Support Working Group. Over the past year, a team of students, staff, and faculty has been focused on better understanding the environment for graduate student parents at MIT and developing potential options for ensuring they are appropriately supported. This charge…
