Author: edcarlevale

  • Susan Hockfield and her disastrous secret agreement with the Koch brothers

    Susan Hockfield and her disastrous secret agreement with the Koch brothers

    The question is, can I and would I and would it mae any sense or difference.

    The 11 senior faculty being interviewed anonymously for this article describe what happened 8 years earlier, but only from the point of view of their own loss of power. They have zero interest in any specifics as to who is driving the change, what it represents.

    … the Executive Committee would no longer be chaired by the president of MIT, but by the chair of the Corporation. This means de facto that the Executive Committee is no longer likely to be headed by someone with experience as an academic leader.

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