East Orientation will be happening
throughout the week. Attendance is mandatory for all
undergraduates; they will be discussing how, where, and when to
change your major to the appropriate one.
Ditch Day is tomorrow.
Interested in the mind and philosophy?
The psychotherapy department will be hosting a talk about
feeling better about yourself.
Bowing to extreme financial pressures, MIT
administration today made official the sale of the Institute to
Caltech. The campus is to be repurposed as Caltech East, a new
School of the Humanities, serving as a complementary counterpart
to Caltech’s scientific excellence.
Numerous committees have been assembled to oversee a complete
overhaul of administrative organization, academic departments,
and curriculum. Administrators emphasize that adjustments to the
restructuring may at times be difficult for students and faculty
alike, but that every effort will be made to ease the
transition. Read more about the transition
here.
As MIT transitions into the Caltech East School of the
Humanities, the institute’s academic programs will be going
through some radical changes. Caltech administrators report that
they are doing the best they can to make the switch to a
humanities curriculum as smooth as possible for East Campus
students.
While East Campus students will still be held to
the same high academic standards to which they are accustomed,
they will be relieved of the responsibility of advancing human
knowledge through scientific research. Instead, they will be
left free to let their creativities run wild: coloring, reading,
and blogging to their heart’s content.
Click here to read more on the new
curriculum.
Caltech’s recent buyout of MIT has prompted the Office of the
President to launch a detailed review of the entire curriculum,
with the hopes of ensuring that our campus’s academic standards
are up to par with those of Caltech. When asked about the
buyout, Caltech trustee Arthur Nettley remarked, “I’m not quite
on board with this whole acquisition of another school. I would
need a guarantee that the new Caltech East will be able to meet
the high standards of an institution like Caltech.” To alleviate
these fears, academic coordinators from both Caltech and the new
East Campus have proposed a total restructuring of the writing
center. Details of the proposed changes can be found
here.
California Institute of Technology East Campus
77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA
02139 (617) 253-1000
