One of the key priorities of OVC is to engage with students and departments to develop and pursue a roadmap for enhancing the first-year undergraduate academic experience.
Current Experiments and Pilots
- CUP experiment for the Class of 2023 (in process)
- Advising pilot for the Class of 2023 (in process)
- Testing “blue-sky ideas” in first-year learning communities (in process)
- CUP 2022 (in process)
In the News
- Data on Phase One and Phase Two experiments (The Tech, May 1, 2019 and June 6, 2019)
- Progress Towards an Improved Undergraduate First-Year Experience (Faculty Newsletter, March 2019)
- CUP proposes ‘Phase Two’ continuation of the First-Year Experiment at faculty meeting (The Tech, February 28, 2019)
- Creating a more flexible first-year experience at MIT (MIT News, December 12, 2018)
- A Collaboration in Learning : “Designing the First Year at MIT” class catalyzes experimentation in the first year (Sept/Oct 2018, MIT Faculty Newsletter)
- Tackling the ultimate problem set (MIT News, June 5, 2018)
- Video: First-Year Design Course at MIT (June 12, 2018)
- Harnessing a “meritocracy of great ideas” (MIT News, November 30, 2017)
- ‘Designing the Freshman Year’ course will pilot in spring (The Tech, November 30, 2017)
- Designing the First Year at MIT: It’s not a faculty committee, it’s a class (Nov/Dec 2017, MIT Faculty Newsletter)
- Exploring the impact of Margaret MacVicar’s legacy on education at MIT (MIT News, April 6, 2017)