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MIT announces plans to shutter DEI office
MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that while diversity programs will be restructured, the community “remains deeply ...
MIT becomes latest elite university to shut down DEI office
MIT's decision to end its DEI office comes amid a probe by the Trump administration investigating the school for engaging in race-based practices in its administration of policies.
MIT announces plans to wind down DEI office, eliminate equity VP job
MIT has become the latest in a string of elite American universities to distance itself from the idea of diversity, equity ...
MIT scraps DEI office, ends programs amid Trump’s fight with Harvard
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shut down its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office last week, The ...
MIT is shuttering DEI office amid Trump administration’s push to end diversity programs
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities ...
MIT closes DEI office amid Trump's dispute with Harvard and other schools
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its DEI office last week, following an 18-month assessment of the department ...
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Why This MIT Dean Is Leaving Her Job to Start a New Kind of University
If you were to start a new university from scratch, how would you set it up? For Christine Ortiz, a dean at MIT, that question isn’t hypothetical. She announced earlier this year that she’ll ...