Our Mission
The Committee on Education (CoE) aims to enhance the multifaceted academic experience of the MIT undergraduate student body by administering programs and advocating on behalf of students. In 2022-2023, CoE projects include investigating grade transparency at MIT, sponsoring student faculty dinners, and reporting/resolving violations.
VIOLATIONS:
The CoE manages an ongoing project to improve the MIT academic experience: violations reporting. If you are concerned because you think a policy in one of your classes violates MIT's rules of the faculty, we can advocate on your behalf.
Curious about end of term policy and what constitutes a violation? Visit here.
Semester Projects:
Student Faculty Dinners: Our Student-Faculty subcommittee is continuing to promote interactions between undergraduates and graduate students/professors in order to help build connections outside of the classroom. In this program, we reimburse meals hosted, as well as collaborate with the Committee on Community and Diversity to host larger-scale dinners associated with professors of affinity groups (BIPOC, LGBTQ, etc.).
Subscriptions: Last year, we began sponsoring subscriptions to academic resources and services for the undergraduate student body. We will be continuing to expand that program this year to give access to even more students.
Banquets: During the 2024-2025 academic year, we hosted our first two student faculty banquets. These banquets are designed to allow students and faculty members to interact and get to know each other outside of a strictly academic environment. In 2025-2026, we will be hosting one banquet per semester to allow these connections to continue to be made.
If you have any suggestions for new projects or ideas for ways we can improve current projects, please let us know by filling out the form below!
Suggestion box: https://forms.gle/N1PmiQx96cwxpsxk9
If there are any other projects or changes in education that you are interested in seeing, join the committee to make your voice heard!
Interest link: https://forms.gle/pv995hB5QY2wavga7
PAST Projects include:
Grade Transparency: We are working to establish clear and enforceable guidelines/rules that promote grade transparency from professors.
Professors will now send you an academic flag email if you are in danger of failing a course.
Reinstatement of Junior/Senior P/D/F: After amassing over 1400 undergraduate perspectives on virtual education via the UA COVID Fall 2020 Survey, we found compelling and data-driven evidence that undergraduates wanted the option for Junior/Senior P/D/F for this semester. The results from this survey were likely equally as compelling for the continued offering of a PE/NE class for students, since 92% of respondents indicated preference for an equal or more lenient grading policy in the Spring.
Improvements to the Spring Emergency Academic Regulations (EARs): After a semester of gathering feedback and deliberation with faculty and undergraduates, we have finally established common ground with APART (body that decides on EARs) and have convinced them to make the following revisions to the Spring EARs:
Making sure the professors provide alternative scheduling times for international students
Making sure that assignments and tests are clearly defined
Ensuring mandates for following through on student support resources
Contact US:
To learn more about our projects this year or to join us, contact us at ua-education-members@mit.edu. The chairs can be reached directly at ua-education-chairs@mit.edu.
