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<div class="">Dear all, please see email below from Vice Chancellor Iain Waitz. If you’d like to have input on first year experience, please fill out the form. Undergrad and grad students are welcome to take part in the class.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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I am writing to ask for your help in encouraging interested undergraduate and graduate students to take part in a new IAP subject,
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DFY: Fun-Sized (2.s974/2.s790)</a>, a 3-unit follow-up to the original <a href="https://ovc.mit.edu/fye_course/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Designing the First-Year Experience at MIT class offered in Spring 2018</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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The class will focus on exploring ideas for significant changes to the first-year experience that potentially could be piloted with a small group of students, for example in a First-Year Learning Community (FLC), as well as less dramatic changes that potentially
could be tested with the entire Class of 2023 as a follow-on to the CUP experiment with the Class of 2022 this year. (Note: For those interested, you can explore some of the <a href="https://ovc.mit.edu/exploration-in-the-mit-first-year/draft-data/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">initial
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The IAP class, which I will co-teach with Professor Maria Yang, is open to all MIT students. We welcome students who were involved with the prior class as well as first-year students and others who were not able to participate last year. It will be held from
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Students considering enrolling or wanting more information should fill out this <a href="https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qUvGRfuc3OGtfL" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">short form</a>. Please get in touch with <a href="mailto:katew@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Kate
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Sincerely,<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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DFY: Fun-Sized (2.s974/2.s790)<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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When: IAP 2019 | 1/22-2/1, 2-5pm<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Faculty: Professor Maria Yang & Vice Chancellor Ian A. Waitz<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qUvGRfuc3OGtfL" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Express your interest!</a></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">M A S S A C H U S E T T S I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y<br class="">
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<div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Ian A. Waitz<br class="">
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<div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education</div>
<div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics</div>
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<div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">website:</div>
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