DUE: Advocating Education

Daniel E. Hastings

Dean for Undergraduate Education

March 22, 2011

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DUE Mission

We enroll, educate, and inspire some of the brightest students in the world with a passion for learning so they become the next generation of creative thinkers and leaders in a global society.

We lead by promoting the excellence of a science and technology-centric education, ensuring access and opportunity without regard to financial resources, upholding rigorous academic standards, advancing innovation, developing mentoring relationships, strengthening respect for diversity, and serving as a catalyst for learning, exploration, and discovery.

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DUE Advocates

for Education

Provide Mission-Critical Functions

Create New Services & Capabilities

Define New Ways

of Thinking About Education

Office of

Faculty

Support Diana Henderson

Professor &

Dean

Educational Services Curriculum Support Educational Delivery

Daniel Hastings Dean

Admissions Stu Schmill

Dean

Student

Financial

Services Elizabeth Hicks

Executive Director

Global

Education

& Career

Development Melanie Parker

Executive Director

Undergraduate

Advising &

Academic

Programming Julie Norman

Sr. Associate Dean &

Director

Office of

Minority

Education DiOnetta Jones

Associate Dean

& Director

Teaching

& Learning

Laboratory Lori Breslow

Sr. Lecturer &

Director

Registrar’s

Office Mary Callahan

Registrar

Elizabeth Reed Sr. Associate Dean

Sharon Bridburg Director

Human Resources

Jeanne Hillery Director

Finance / Administration

Administration

Experiential

Learning Kim Vandiver

Dean for

Undergraduate

Research &

Director

ROTC

Programs

Aerospace Studies Lt. Col. T. Weibel

Military Science Lt. Col. T. Hall

Naval Science CAPT. C. Stevens

Concourse Bernhardt Trout

Prof. & Director

Edgerton Center Kim Vandiver

Director

Terrascope Sam Bowring

Prof. & Director

Office of

Educational

Innovation &

Technology Vijay Kumar

Sr. Associate Dean

& Director

Organizational Chart

January 2011

Experimental

Study Group Alex Slocum

Prof. & Director

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Key Partnerships

We aspire to be the best in the world in shaping

strategic partnerships and creating synergies to

integrate learning and life at a research

university.

Departments

and Schools

External Forces Shaping Our Priorities

• Access: ensuring socio-economic and

racial diversity of the student body

• Affordability: making a college education

affordable for all students

• Accountability: demonstrating learning

outcomes and student preparedness

• Recognizing the rise of Asian universities and

developing fruitful partnerships

• Learning from the success of online

universities

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Students and Technology are Evolving

Gen Y Students

– Global

– Diverse

– Mobile

– Wired

– Socially Conscious

Technology Future in Education

– Near Term:

• Electronic Books

• Mobile Devices

– Mid Term

• Augmented Reality

• Game-based Learning

– Far Term

• Gesture-based computing

• Learning Analytics

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Source: The Horizon Report 2011 Edition

DUE Priorities are

Supported and Enabled

by IS&T

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Develop a Sustainable Infrastructure

for the Future

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Educational Goals are Tightly-Coupled with

Infrastructure Needs

Curricular and Pedagogical

Change Student

Information System

Classrooms

Maintain a Commitment to

Need-Blind Admissions and

Need-Based Financial Aid

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Maximize Learning Through

Transformative Education

• Provide a first-year experience that more closely

maps to specific needs and interests of each student.

• Leverage diversity of our students in order to

increase their academic and personal success.

• Develop a 21st century vision for experiential learning

and undergraduate research.

• Promote the development of key global competencies

through the curriculum and opportunities to go

abroad.

• Prepare MIT graduates to communicate well and rise

to the leadership challenge.

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• Advance the curriculum based on the recommendations

of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational

Commons.

• Enhance the educational experience of students

through technology-enabled residence-based education.

• Focus on evolution towards a modular curriculum with

some online learning.

Develop and Disseminate Educational

Innovation in Pedagogy and Technology

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Provide Guidance and Support that

Empowers our Students to Achieve

their Full Intellectual Potential and

Develop a Well-Grounded, Confident

Sense of Themselves

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DUE Priorities are

Supported and Enabled

by IS&T

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Questions?