<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear students, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zoom meeting today with head of department Prof. Alan Grossman and undergrad officers Profs. Cathy Drennan, Adam Martin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Time: Jun 22, 2020 02:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Join Zoom Meeting</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/95160406181?pwd=VzVaUCtMaHY4STlBUm5KOG13cTEwQT09" class="">https://mit.zoom.us/j/95160406181?pwd=VzVaUCtMaHY4STlBUm5KOG13cTEwQT09</a></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Password: 015635</b></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you this afternoon. Take care.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class="">Janice</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">To the members of the MIT community,</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 22px;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">In April, I asked Team 2020 to assess options for undergraduate education for the fall semester. Today, based on the team’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a target="_blank" href="http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMEAAHbT6VMAAcrjiAYAAAA86r0AAAAAGqoAJMJJAAiQzwBe6mJZXJpk-PqJR_SxeZLV5YOaewAIIWc/1/G84IjjkeUXdrjbhiBVnd0A/aHR0cDovL29yZ2NoYXJ0Lm1pdC5lZHUvbm9kZS8yNzUvbGV0dGVyc190b19jb21tdW5pdHkvbWl0LXRlYW0tMjAyMC1yZWxlYXNlcy1yZXBvcnQtaW5mb3JtaW5nLTIwMjAtMjEtYWNhZGVtaWMtb3B0aW9ucw" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">in-depth
analysis and extensive community consultation</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">, I write to share a first round of decisions about the undergraduate experience this fall – and
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<h1 class="text-build-content" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;" class=""><b class="">Shaping Fall 2020 for undergraduates</b></span></h1><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Team 2020 presented a spectrum of options, ranging from having all undergraduates
on campus in September to having no undergraduates here and all instruction entirely online. (Options in between included variations on the shape and timing of the academic calendar and the percentage of undergraduates on campus at any one time.)</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Every option comes with drawbacks, and our community process did not produce perfect
consensus. But we have now settled on the approach that drew the most positive feedback and problem-solving attention from undergraduates, faculty and those administrators and staff closest to the work. </span></p>
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may need to start a week early (around September 1), end any in-person instruction before Thanksgiving, and finish the term remotely. </span></li><li class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">At least for the fall, we can only bring some of our undergraduates back to campus. </span></li><li class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Everything that can be taught effectively online<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">will</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be
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to labs, workshops and performance spaces.</span></li><li class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Every undergraduate living on campus will have an individual room, to allow for physical distancing. </span></li></ul>
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<h2 class="text-build-content" style="margin-top: 10px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">How many undergraduates will return to campus?</b></span></h2><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">We don’t yet know. Undergraduates have overwhelmingly expressed how much they value
being on campus; we aim to give as many students as possible the opportunity to return safely this year. However, because we judge that physical distancing requires using doubles and triples as single-occupancy rooms, our undergraduate residential population
in the fall will be much less than our normal capacity – conceivably as high as 60 percent, but likely much lower. Exactly how many students can return at any point depends on several factors, some beyond our control.</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Obviously, we cannot control the trajectory of the pandemic this fall, either here
in Massachusetts or in the places around the world our students call home. We also have no control over the government response. We must accept these as unknowns and be ready to adapt.</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">However, we do have significant control over MIT’s ability to provide Covid-19 testing,
contact tracing and quarantining. No matter how careful we all are, we must anticipate that we will face Covid-19 cases in the fall. Therefore, we want to be confident that we have the capacity to spot an outbreak quickly and limit its spread. </span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Over the next few weeks, we will carefully review our assumptions about what we can
successfully manage in any given period, based on what we know today. This will give us the data to decide how many students and staff we can responsibly welcome back on campus. A next step then will be to establish a set of threshold conditions that would
require us to scale back or suspend operations.</span></p>
<h2 class="text-build-content" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">When will we know more about Fall 2020?</b></span></h2><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">For our undergraduates, incoming students and your families: I know you will still
have many important questions. Who will be invited back for the fall semester, and based on what priorities? When will the semester begin and end? Where will I live if I am invited back? How will grading be handled? What will life on and around campus look
like, and how will it be different from before? And many more.</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">With this baseline two-semester decision in place, we can now begin making the hundreds
of subsequent interlocking decisions and arrangements required to make the fall a success and to give you the answers you need. We will share our detailed plans for the undergraduate experience no later than the week of July 6th.</span></p>
<h1 class="text-build-content" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;" class=""><b class="">For the whole MIT community: How will return to on-site work unfold?</b></span></h1><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Hundreds of MIT employees who are essential to our operations have continued to work
on-site through the current phase of the pandemic. More will return as campus and other on-site activity increases. For the rest of us, here’s the order of eligibility to return:</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Within these general categories, we recognize and are striving to respond to the wide variation in people’s lives, including individual vulnerability to the
virus, circumstances that make it hard to work or study effectively from home settings, difficulties in local commuting or reaching campus from abroad – and more.</span></p>
<h1 class="text-build-content" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;" class=""><b class="">What will life on campus be like?</b></span></h1><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 22px;">
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with relevant groups and individuals on a rolling basis as key sets of decisions are made. But for now, I wanted you to have the big picture. </span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">I join you in feeling frustrated by the persistent uncertainty of the situation. We
need to make decisions with incomplete, imprecise and dynamic information, and we are taking time to consult broadly. </span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">As we try to find the best way to safely adapt the massive enterprise that is MIT
to the shifting realities of the pandemic, I deeply appreciate your thoughtful problem-solving and continued patience.</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="text-build-content" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" class="">L. Rafael Reif</span></p>
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