The climate for inclusion at MIT is changing. It is improving for some groups and becoming worse for ...
Measuring Climate Change
June, 2018
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Fifth year of ICEO: 2017-18 summary
External events continued to impact the MIT community during the 2017–18 academic year. In July, a M ...
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Measuring the Climate for Inclusion
Assessment is a crucial step for any change effort. The 2015 ICEO Report devotes a chapter to this t ...
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Revisiting BSU Recommendations: Then and Now (December, 2017)
At the end of the 2017 fall semester, the ICEO and the Black Students’ Union (BSU) collaborated to h ...
September, 2017
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2016-17: The new normal?
Academic year 2016-17 began in early July 2016 with a painful national outbreak of violence between ...
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A year of dialogue and collaboration
Academic year 2015-16 was a busy time for community and equity at MIT, with major efforts made to ad ...
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A year of activism: 2014-15
The second year of my tenure as Institute Community and Equity Officer began with a somber set of ev ...
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Creation of the ICEO position
What is an ICEO and why does MIT have one? The Institute Community and Equity Officer (ICEO) was est ...
July, 2017
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Departmental Values Statements: Process and Relationships
The top recommendation of the ICEO Report was that MIT prepare a brief statement of what we aspire t ...
March, 2017
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Preparing for Unconscious Bias Education
One of the major recommendations made by many groups at MIT over the past several years is that all ...
November, 2016
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Values of a university community
In the days since the US presidential election of 2016, uncertainty and unease have gripped many com ...
July, 2016
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Responding to a national crisis in race relations
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a video of the s ...
February, 2016
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Community Conversations: Race and Diversity at MIT
Post-dialogue survey question: "What was your favorite part of the event?" Attendee response: "Being ...
December, 2015
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Community Conversations: MIT Culture and Values
The first recommendation of the ICEO Report Advancing a Respectful and Caring Community is to assemb ...
June, 2015
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Community Conversations: MIT Students and Police
In his Charge to the Graduates of 2015, MIT President Rafael Reif once again called on the graduates ...
February, 2015
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Learning from black women in physics
This week more than 500 physicists gathered in Baltimore for the 2015 annual conference of the Natio ...
January, 2015
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Hacking the MIT Culture
On Thursday, January 29, MIT held the first session of its annual Institute Diversity Summit. The af ...
December, 2014
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Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter
The wounds of racism, stereotyping and disrespect are bleeding again making the second half of 2014 ...
November, 2014
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Preparing a report for the MIT community
For the last nine months I have been working on a report about the MIT community and culture -- a us ...
October, 2014
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Challenging Technical Privilege
Lately, you may have noticed attention to the plummeting decline of women entering computer science ...
September, 2014
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Ferguson, MIT
This summer rushed by for me like a video put on fast-forward until the nation pushed the pause butt ...
July, 2014
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Elite Male Faculty Employ Fewer Women
That such barriers exist is hard to deny, especially if one looks at the data. ...
June, 2014
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Greetings to MIT Community Members and Colleagues!
Greetings to MIT community members and colleagues! Today is the one-year anniversary of my start as ...