A Safe Return to Campus

Working teams🔗

• Safety + Well-being

  Led by Senior Associate Dean Bill Garrett and Professor Retsef Levi, this team is preparing our testing protocols, planning for entry and exit as well as other traffic through campus, purchasing masks and other protective equipment, managing signage for campus, coordinating with MIT Medical, and planning for our use of wearable devices to monitor health and encourage social distancing. 

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• MIT Sloan Values

  Led by Associate Dean Ray Reagans and Associate Dean Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, this team is engaging members across the community to develop and encourage the adoption of new behaviors to keep us all safe on campus while living and strengthening our MIT Sloan values.

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• Classroom Experience

  Led by Associate Dean Nelson Repenning and Assistant Dean Tara Walor, this group is examining, testing, and preparing all aspects of the classroom experience, from seating to technology.

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• Student Needs

  Led by Senior Associate Dean Jake Cohen and Assistant Dean Dawna Levenson, this team is coordinating across academic programs and student support teams to identify student needs and concerns about the coming year and addressing them through collaborations across the school.

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• Curriculum Planning + Academic Staffing

  Led by Associate Dean Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and John Runyon, Manager, Faculty Affairs, this group is working on our in-person and remote teaching models, determining academic staffing needs, and working together with faculty members to prepare their courses for the fall.

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• Teaching + Learning

  Led by Associate Dean Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and Gary Roberts, Director, Faculty and Research Services, this team focuses on enabling excellent teaching in a variety of remote and in-person modes and enhancing our capabilities for course design, delivery, and support.

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• Scheduling + Space Usage Optimization

  Led by Associate Dean Dimitris Bertsimas and Assistant Dean Tara Walor, this team analyzed a wide range of variables to create a course schedule for the fall semester that takes into account faculty and student needs as well as state and Institute requirements and space constraints.

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