- Letter to the Community
Join us for the launch of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative
Dear members of the MIT community,
I’m excited to invite you to the official launch of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) – a new initiative designed to make it easier for faculty from across MIT’s human-centered disciplines to “go big” –…
- Letter to the Community
Make a plan to vote!
To the members of the MIT community,
I write to you now, as we do every fall, to encourage you to vote this year on Election Day, Tuesday, November 5.
Thanks to the efforts of many in our community, student voter turnout has been rising at MIT, and…
- Letter to the Community
Institute-level themes and priorities
Dear members of the MIT community,
This past year, an important responsibility for me and many leaders at MIT has been addressing the impact on our campus community of the conflict, violence and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. While we continue that…
- Letter to the Community
Rejecting antisemitism
Dear members of the MIT community,
I hadn’t intended to start the year with a message like this, but on Monday, an incident occurred that I found troubling. I cannot be the arbiter of every disagreement about speech at MIT, and I do not expect to write often…
- Letter to the Community
Undergraduate admissions in a new time
Dear members of the MIT community,
In June 2023, the US Supreme Court made a ruling that changed the way college admissions have been conducted for decades. In a letter at the time, I let you know that we expected the ruling to pose a serious…
- Transcript
Undergraduate admissions transcript
By now, you will likely have learned from Stu Schmill about the composition of the incoming first-year class. The class is, as always, outstanding across multiple dimensions and will…like last year’s class, and those before it…bring us an inspiring influx of new…