The climate for inclusion at MIT is changing. It is improving for some groups and becoming worse for others. For the first time, we can quantify this using the new MIT Climate Dashboard. A few weeks ago I presented the first version of this dashboard, which included an assessment of the experience of ma

External events continued to impact the MIT community during the 2017–18 academic year. In July, a MIT custodian—a man without citizenship or permanent residency who had been granted yearly stays of removal and permits authorizing him to work in the US—was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcem

Assessment is a crucial step for any change effort. The 2015 ICEO Report devotes a chapter to this topic, where it presents a preliminary analysis of the climate for inclusion at MIT using both quantitative (survey) data and qualitative (individual interviews) data. After several more years of work to r

At the end of the 2017 fall semester, the ICEO and the Black Students’ Union (BSU) collaborated to hold a lunchtime facilitated discussion on the status of student recommendations presented two years earlier. The event was one of a regular series of community dialogues offered by the ICEO, often in coll

Academic year 2016-17 began in early July 2016 with a painful national outbreak of violence between police and black people including the police killing of unarmed men in Minnesota and Baton Rouge and the murder of several police in Dallas. In response to this shock and its impact on many at MIT, on Jul