MIT Reports

Many reports about MIT education are available on the Faculty Governance web site, with descriptions of the report, and who chaired the committee. Some key reports from that site, and additional reports collected for the Designing the First Year class are listed below.

1. Report of the Committee on Educational Survey (Lewis Commission) 1949
2. Basic Educational Requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Rodgers Report) 1979
3. Report of the Ad Hoc Student Committee on the First Year (UA Student Committee on Education Policy) 1988
4. Report of the Task Force on Student Life and Learning 1998
5. Preliminary Findings and Recommendations of the Educational Design Project 1999
6. Report on Freshmen Pass-No Record Grading and Advanced Placement Policy 2000
7. General Institute Requirements Review Planning Meeting 2003
8. Subcommittee on the Educational Commons Committee on the Undergraduate Program 2008
9. Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education 2014

Resources to help understand MIT

1. MIT Facts, a compendium of essential facts
2. MIT Organization Chart, describing the senior leadership of MIT, their reporting relationships, major projects and reports, office and staff directories
3. MIT Briefing Book, sponsored by the Vice President for Research, providing a summary of MIT facts and history, major MIT initiatives, campus research, and connections to industry
4. MIT History at the Institute Archives and Special Collections in the MIT Libraries, serving "as the 'memory' of MIT, collecting and preserving records that document MIT's history and the people who have been a part of that history."
5. Looking Back at MIT150, an archive of MIT’s Sesquicentennial Celebration

Other Readings

• "Time for a New Education Professional at MIT?" Daniel Kemp, MIT Faculty Newsletter, April 1990
• "The Aims of Education Address," Andrew Abbott, September 26, 2002
• "The Fundamental Challenge Facing Higher Education Today" Susan S. Silbey, MIT Faculty Newsletter September/October 2017