FROM OVC to GUE: Our New Name
- OVC is now the Division of Graduate and Undergraduate Education (GUE). The new name…
- Includes our core mission: education
- Captures both student populations we work with — graduate and undergraduate students — a unique structure among our peers who tend to be organized into separate units
- Parallels the Division of Student Life (which also reports to the Chancellor’s Office)
And… we say “GEE-YOU-EE”!
RECRUITMENT & ADMISSIONS: Attracting Top Talent
- Undergraduate
- MIT’s primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars (and humans) who will contribute to MIT and the world.
- Graduate
- MIT has been a consistent international leader in the number of master’s and doctoral degrees awarded. While we are renowned for our highly ranked degrees in the sciences and engineering, our graduate programs in the social sciences, humanities, management, architecture, and urban studies have gained significant prominence.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: Advising & Academic Support
- New Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC)
- Complements specialized departmental academic advising (making strong relationships with faculty, departments, admin staff, and more, essential
- Houses the new Office of Academic Community, Empowerment, and Success (OACES), combining the current staffing, budgets, and programs of the OME and the UAC’s Advising & Student Belonging (ASB)
- Partners with departments to grow tutoring resources, expanding TSR^2
- Advising District (Bldg 7 &11)
- New space now open!
- CAPD on the Infinite: Career Services, Professional Development, Prehealth Advising, Distinguished Fellowships
- New ways of working, new opportunities for programming
- PLUS: Tutoring moving into former OME suite in Building 4
GRADUATE STUDENTS: Thriving at and after MIT
- Graduate Student Support
- GradThriving/GradSupport is critically important
- Even with our constrained budgets, we are looking for ways to enhance resources for our graduate student community
- Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
- Current CBA ends May 31, 2026
- Professional Development (PD)
- Development of grad PD requirement recommended by Task Force 2021
- Ad hoc committee on grad PD final report to be issued this fall
- Overarching goal for PD requirement: Instill in students the lifelong desire to engage in professional and personal development through experiences they design during their PhD, with guidance
- GUE is starting pilots with interested departments, oversight by CGP
TEACHING AND LEARNING AT MIT: Constant Improvements
- How can we improve how we teach (even without changing the GIRs)?
- MIT often rewards teaching innovation vs best practices; that’s hard to sustain
- Most faculty have not had formal training in teaching & learning
- How can we better harness MIT’s significant expertise in this area?
- Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL); Open Learning’s (OL) Residential Education team; OL’s Digital Learning Lab (DLL) Fellows/Scientists; and Local DLCI efforts
- How will AI change student learning, faculty teaching, and assessment?
- How does AI impact what students need to know?
- Can we leverage AI (e.g., 24/7 availability) to design richer experiences?
- Can we create AI-aware content that resist or leverage the use of AI?
EDUCATIONAL SPACES: Making
- Making is a quintessentially MIT endeavor
- MIT is home to a wide variety of makerspaces — mechanical, biological, even nuclear
- Extracurricular spaces play a unique role in student learning: Edgerton, Manus, Hobby Shop, dorms
- Future plans
- Need for more coherent maker ecosystem, maximize utilization of existing spaces
- Future of Project Manus spaces and systems
