<div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>This class looks like an awesome opportunity to learn more about how MIT works. It seems like it should be really interesting and helpful for advocacy efforts!<br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Nicholas</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small">--------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:small">Nicholas Triantafillou</div><div style="font-size:small">Co-chair for Housing and Community Affairs '17-'18</div><div style="font-size:small">MIT Graduate Student Council <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Joost Bonsen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jpbonsen@mit.edu">jpbonsen@mit.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:06 PM<br>Subject: GSC invitation to 11.S941 Understanding MIT ~ Tue 4-6p ~ 9-450A ~ Fall 2017 (starts 9/12)<br>To: <a href="mailto:gsc-excomm@mit.edu">gsc-excomm@mit.edu</a><br><br><br>Dear current GSC leaders,<br>
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I'm writing now to encourage each of you to consider taking -- or recommending to others that they participate in -- our Understanding MIT seminar -- <a href="http://understandingmit.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://understandingmit.org</a> -- where every week we take on a different office or function or theme about MIT, usually with a guest speaker. Our calendar of speakers already confirmed includes...<br>
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Past Faculty Chairman, Professor Stephen Graves<br>
Institutional Research Director Lydia Snover<br>
Corporation Chairman Bob Millard<br>
Admissions Dean Stu Schmill<br>
VP Finance Glen Shor & Allen Marcum<br>
Deputy Exec VP Tony Sharon<br>
Student Life VP & Dean Suzy Nelson & Staff<br>
Exec VP & Treasurer Israel Ruiz<br>
Alum Association President Hyun-A Park & CEO Whitney Espich<br>
Cambridge City Councillor Nadeem Mazen (Tentative)<br>
SA+P Dean Hashim Sarkis<br>
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A couple of you already -- and many of your predecessors as well -- have joined us in the past and some have found it useful in dealing with various aspects of the Institute -- people, personalities, offices, history, etc. More details appended below and online.<br>
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If interested, please join us every Tuesday afternoon-evening from 4-6p starting next week 9/12/2017 in 9-450A. And please do tell friends and colleagues -- including certainly GSC Reps as well as up-and-coming grad student leaders -- if you think they'd both enjoy and add to the conversation.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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--Joost<br>
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Joost Bonsen<br>
Lecturer, Program in Media Arts & Sciences<br>
MIT Media Lab, E15-389<br>
<a href="mailto:jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://alum.mit.edu/www/jpbonsen" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://alum.mit.edu/www/jpbons<wbr>en</a><br>
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My Fall 2017 MIT Activities ...<br>
* Development Ventures ~ <a href="http://developmentventures.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://developmentventures.org</a> ~ Emerging Market Innovations<br>
* Revolutionary Ventures ~ <a href="http://revolutionaryventures.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://revolutionaryventures.o<wbr>rg</a> ~ Transformative Technologies<br>
* Future Law (H1) ~ <a href="http://mitfuturelaw.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mitfuturelaw.org/</a> ~ Reimagining Legal Services & Laws for New Tech<br>
* Future Commerce (H2) ~ <a href="http://mitfuturecommerce.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mitfuturecommerce.org</a> ~ Reimagining Money & Markets<br>
* Understanding MIT ~ <a href="http://understandingmit.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://understandingmit.org</a> ~ On our Innovation Institute<br>
* Independent Studies & UROPs ~ On Invention, Entrepreneurship, VCPE, etc<br>
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11.S941 Understanding MIT ~ Tue 4-6p ~ 9-450A ~ Fall 2017<br>
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* Seminar Announcement *<br>
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11.S941 Understanding MIT ~ Research Universities; How They Work<br>
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A weekly seminar on Campus & Community Leadership & Institutional Planning with MIT as our live case study.<br>
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Fall 2017 ~ Tuesdays ~ 4-6pm<br>
Room 9-450A<br>
Instructors ~ Bob Simha / MIT Planning Director Emeritus, Lecturer, DUSP & Joost Bonsen / Lecturer, MAS<br>
Contact ~ <a href="mailto:simha@mit.edu" target="_blank">simha@mit.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
6 Units<br>
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<a href="http://UnderstandingMIT.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://UnderstandingMIT.org</a> (Stellar page)<br>
<a href="https://dusp.mit.edu/subject/fall-2017-11s941" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dusp.mit.edu/subject/f<wbr>all-2017-11s941</a><br>
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First Class --> We start Tue Sept 12th 2017 in 9-450A at 4pm. If interested, please join us for this intro and overview kickoff class session.<br>
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MIT staff, post-docs, alum, and visitors welcome on a space-available basis.<br>
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Understanding MIT is a special seminar on the challenges of designing & building research university campuses and crafting conditions for a supportive & vibrant learning community. We invite the senior academic, administrative, and trustee leadership of MIT to share with us what they do to help the Institute stay vital in the short, medium, and long term. Our focus includes not only on-campus and local town-gown relations, but also connections with our many increasingly global Institute constituencies, collaborators, and competitors.<br>
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Every Tuesday from 4-6pm we have a different MIT senior officer or key academic or governance leader as guest speaker.<br>
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Confirmed speakers include: Corporation Chair Millard, Faculty Chair Emeritus Graves, EVP&T Ruiz, SA+P Dean Sarkis, other Deans of Student Life, Admissions, as well as the key staff who collect & analyze the raw data about MIT's finances, demographics, and impact. Plus Cambridge City Councilor. Full working schedule with speaker links online Stellar under Materials.<br>
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The seminar will consist of a series of presentations by past and present Academic, Administrative, and Alumni leaders who will share their own experiences, describe their journey to senior academic and administrative roles, and provide insights into running MIT. We will especially focus on how priorities for institutional initiatives are determined; how the campus is designed and planned; how the budgets emerge from a financial plan that reflects endowment management, resource development, research income, a competitive tuition, and student aid policies.<br>
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Past students attendees from our seminar include professional planners, including SPURS/Humphrey Fellows, several former GSC & UA Presidents, VPs, and other governmental Committee chairs and department Reps, as well as leaders of multiple clubs including student initiatives in the areas of international development, sustainability, entrepreneurship, new living group development, and more. Many alums have gone on to further grad studies or industry and several are now faculty at universities including Masdar, Olin, Harvard, and MIT.<br>
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Each student will be expected to select a focused topic about MIT campus development and prepare as term paper an article or issue-analysis suitable for publication in the Graduate newsletter, The Tech, Technology Review or the like.<br>
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