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Volume 136, Number 3 Thursday, February 11, 2016 DSLx initiative to offer online mini-courses that teach ‘soft skills’ Established 1881 DSL has called for students to submit videos, tutorials, or infographics to site

By Vivian Zhong “Success in professional and per- STAFF WRITER sonal life largely depends on ‘soft skills,’” the website reads. “MIT students need The Division of Student Life (DSL) is to learn soft skills, which are arguably in the process of launching its DSLx Life harder to master than technical subjects: Learning initiative, which aims to teach how to inspire others, listen and commu- MIT students “soft skills,” according to nicate, think and plan ahead, understand the website. their own values, manage themselves and The Life Learning initiative aims to their time, respect other people’s views, teach MIT students skills such as com- and much more.” munication, leadership, and empathy, as If the vision for DSLx seems broad, it a complement to MIT's intense focus on is because the initiative is an open and LENNY MARTINEZ—THE TECH technical skills, beginning with a “Teach experimental project. “We’re building Building W92, where Information Systems andEstablished Technology’s main offices 1881 are located. It Yourself” (TIY) contest for MIT stu- a framework, and then asking the MIT dents that will run through February. The community members to populate the FEATURE goal of DSLx is to provide a central hub of framework with content,” said DSL Direc- life-education resources to the MIT com- tor of Communications Matthew Bauer. munity, according to program director The TIY contest calls on MIT students Sally Susnowitz. It will revolve around a to create and submit microlearning mate- A struggle within MIT's IT website that collects and organizes pieces rial, and will generate content for a pro- of microlearning — mini “how-to” tuto- totype website that the program staff is rials in the form of short videos, listicles, department over its future and infographics. DSLx, Page 3

By Drew Bent Led by IS&T’s vice president, 300 staff members leaving since Academic Council group FEATURES EDITOR John Charles, the ambitious re- February, instead of the average organization began in February 8 or 9 percent annual turnover. The sweeping transforma- 2015 and aims to spur innovation The reorganization stands out will implement BSU recs tion that is currently underway at through agileEstablished software develop- in 1881several ways. Many longtime MIT’s Information Systems and ment practices adopted from employees have resigned — by Technology office is one that is industry. Charles emphasizes the estimate of a former employ- Community cooperation, accountability unprecedented in its scope and that this is not a typical reor- ee, Laura Baldwin ’89, more than backlash from employees. Many ganization, but rather a com- 700 years of experience have may be potential challenges, members say students and faculty are famil- plete transformation of MIT’s IT been lost from people parting iar with IS&T, which maintains department. ways. A number of those employ- By Sanjana Srivastava ministrators, formed a working group to services ranging from email ac- Meanwhile, a number of cur- ees have been MIT alumni. CONTRIBUTING EDITOR address the points and plan their execu- counts to Athena clusters across rent and former employees say The changes within IS&T are tion. They are now laying out a plan for campus — technologies that the transformation has fallen guided by a long-term strategic After the Black Students’ Union implementing the recommendations. underlie everyone’s time at MIT. short of improving the organi- vision that was formed in 2014 (BSU) and Black Graduate Students’ As- Cooperation from all members of the Fewer people, however, are zation, and has instead created and is expected to be fully real- sociation (BGSA) each published a set community is a concern for the working aware of the changes that have considerable turmoil in the work ized by 2020. However, employ- of recommendations addressing racial group. Two of the recommendations ap- redefined the organization over environment. This has resulted and mental health issues on Dec. 9, the the past year. in roughly 20 percent of nearly IS&T, Page 4 Academic Council, a group of senior ad- BSU, Page 13

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President Reif announced four new to understand how people learn best. education initiatives last Tuesday in re- This knowledge will be applied both sponse to the report from the Institute- on campus and online through MIT’s wide Task Force on the Future of MIT digital education platforms. MITili is Education. headed by Brain and Cognitive Scienc- The MIT Integrated Learning Initia- es professor John Gabrieli. tive (MITili, pronounced “mightily”) On campus, a new team called the will integrate knowledge from fields such as neuroscience and economics Education, Page 3

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DSL launched a competition Education, from Page 1 grams understand and improve learning. MITx Digital Learning Lab has The Digital Learning Solutions been formed to “collaborate with team has been created to provide to find student-made videos interested faculty to build digital online training in cutting-edge content in the curriculum.” The digital technology to “corpora- The site may be of use to students studying abroad team involves 16 MIT lecturers tions, executives and profes- and postdoctoral researchers sionals.” Big Data X is an existing DSLx, from Page 1 sioned content on DSLx Life Learn- Mass publicity for DSLx and TIY who are experts in digital learn- course that has over 10,000 stu- ing,” Susnowitz added, “will help us among the MIT community has ing in their fields. dents, and this team will develop currently developing. Examples of reach all students, including those been fairly low; Susnowitz attribut- Another initiative works with more courses. content that DSL is seeking range who prefer to learn at their own ed this to the team’s decision to wait the 100+ current and develop- In order to organize the ef- from general (“meeting new peo- pace.” to publicize until after a “critical ing MIT programs focusing on forts, Dean of Digital Learning ple”) to targeted (“writing effective Asked what made her feel that mass” of material has been received pre-K through grade 12 learning Sanjay Sarma has been made emails to MIT professors”). the DSLx initiative was so vital, for the website. in STEM. The new MIT pK-12 Ac- Vice President for Open Learning. DSLx is “intended to comple- Susnowitz cited her previous ex- Bauer noted the difficulty of de- tion Group will help these pro- ­­—Sanjana Srivastava ment campus resources with the periences as Director of the Pub- scribing exactly what they’re look- added flexibility of being available lic Service Center. In that role, she ing for from the community, and whenever and wherever MIT stu- communicated with "thousands that the TIY contest is also an ex- dents want to learn,” Susnowitz said of students," including many who periment on “how to approach the to The Tech. Her vision is for DSLx were studying abroad. community.” At the current stage to eventually become an MIT-wide “What created a real interest in of the project, Bauer believes that it initiative, with input from the entire me,” she said, was hearing students, would be more effective to build a MIT community of students, alum- both on campus and abroad, ask for “base of student contacts and per- ni, and faculty. resources in helping them handle a sonal networks” than to send out Susnowitz has worked on bring- wide range of situations and “wish- daily, undirected emails to adver- ing DSLx to fruition ever since she ing that we had materials we could tise the contest and the initiative. joined the DSL at the end of 2014. direct them to.” She believes that a The DSLx team currently com- The goals and microlearning topics more effective and immediate way prises a mix of administrators from sought by the initiative, she added, of accessing student resources has various departments, as well as a have changed significantly since become increasingly pertinent as few students. In the future, Susnow- the project’s conception, in part more and more students pursue in- itz hopes to involve members from due to conversations with students ternational experiences. a wide variety of MIT organizations, in focus groups at the beginning of The DSLx team is “planning on such as the UA, Panhel, and the this academic year. this [initiative] being a success,” Alumni Association. The Tech posed the question Bauer said, and is confident in their The DSLx initiative is largely of how DSLx will prove to be sig- ability to “make adjustments as funded by alumni donors, with the nificantly different from existing [they] go along.”. Susnowitz justified most prominent donation com- resources such as GRTs, academic this belief by citing the abundance ing from Burt and Michele Kaliski, advisors, and student discussion fo- of precedence in professional com- who have donated to MIT's public rums. Nemanja Marjanovic, a Grad- panies, where, she said, videos and service in that past with the hope of uate Community Fellow involved in other microlearning tools are “com- “augmenting learning in a techno- DSLx, cited his own difficulties in monly used to improve their staff.” logical environment that connects accessing the resources he needed She has not, however, found people across distances, borders, when he initially came to MIT. any precedence for this forum of and geographies,” according to “There were so many resources,” life learning resource distribution their DSLx profile. he said, “but they were all scattered, in any universities, possibly mak- Asked about how the team will and getting to them could be quite ing DSLx the first of its kind. In de- gauge the success of DSLx, Bau- annoying, to be honest.” He hopes veloping the initiative, Susnowitz er replied that “it's too early for that the new initiative will provide said that the team took inspiration benchmarks,” adding that “as long a more comprehensive guide for from the success of MITx, and has as people are engaged with it … we students to find the advice and an- worked extensively with the Office can know that it’s fulfilling what we swers they’re seeking. “The envi- of Digital Learning. hope it will be.”

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THE VISUAL ARTS Submission deadline: Monday, March 14, 2016 For more information, visit arts.mit.edu/schnitzer 4 The Tech Thursday, February 11, 2016 FEATURE Established 1881 IS&T’s overhaul prompts resignations Chairman Colleen Madlinger ’17 Changes began February of last year and will continue until 2020 Editor in Chief IS&T, from Page 1 Charles, who was interviewed some of the letters read. “Indi- be very little agreement. While Katherine Nazemi ’17 over email for this story, said he viduals may have a new man- most of those interviewed agreed Business Manager ees say that the vision is not clear “cannot comment on individual ager, have some modification of with the general high-level prin- and that the demotions of manag- decisions and personnel mat- responsibilities, and/or need to ciples guiding the changes, they Aaron Zeng ’18 ers and other structural changes ters,” other than to say that all learn new technologies and gain contested the scope and details of Managing Editor have left them perplexed and personnel matters were “handled additional skills.” their implementation. uncertain about the future. The in accordance with Institute HR One of the primary principles Applying industry methodolo- Vivian Hu ’18 shift to industry practices has also policies.” guiding Charles is that IS&T must gies like the agile Scrum frame- Executive Editor upset some staff who worry IS&T In the months before the improve the efficiency with which work to the entire organization of is leaving behind its roots in MIT meeting with her superiors, Bald- it develops software to meet the IS&T is overkill, several of those William Navarre ’17 culture. win already had doubts about her growing needs of the university interviewed said. NEWS STAFF It’s been a year since the job. “I had not necessarily en- — something that most of the Another former employee changes were first introduced, yet joyed my job for a while, but I was people interviewed for this story said that he decided to leave IS&T Features Editor: Drew Bent ’18; Staff: Emma they remain a contentious issue really good at it, and I liked doing agreed with. when he realized “the organiza- Bingham ’19, Divya Gopinath ’19, Vivian between upper-level manage- it, and I liked helping people,” she Before 2015, IS&T relied on tion would never truly be able Zhong ’19; Meteorologists: Colin Thackray G, ment and many staff members. said. “So I was like, I’ll keep my a development methodology to adopt agile practices such as Vince Agard ’11, Costa Christopoulos ’17. Since mid-November, at least five head down and stick it out, and called the “waterfall model” in Scrum.” people have resigned from IS&T, eventually things will get better, which the various stages of build- The Scrum methodology is PRODUCTION STAFF Baldwin told The Tech. since how could they not?” ing software — such as design, about avoiding micromanage- Editor: Justine Cheng ’17; Associate ­ Editors: Six current and former em- coding, and testing — happen ment of employees, he said, Hannah Rudoltz ’18, Samir Wadhwania ’18; ployees described their experi- sequentially. which is “completely at odds Staff: Emily Weng ’19, Wei H. Wu ’19. ences with the transformation for IS&T is moving Under the 2020 vision, IS&T is with the preferences and person- this article, but several of them moving toward an agile and itera- alities of much of IS&T’s current OPINION STAFF requested to remain anonymous toward an agile tive approach. The exact flavor of leadership.” Editor: Claire Lazar ’17; Associate ­ Editors: to avoid backlash from IS&T or and iterative agile methodology they’ve adopt- Several people said that since Michael Beautyman G, Keertan Kini ’16; future employers. approach. ed is one called Scrum. The mod- Charles believes IS&T is under- Staff: Feras Saad ’15, Isaac Silberberg ’16, Suri Staff said that the wave of de- el is used in much of the software going a transformation that not partures, combined with distrust industry, and is generally consid- many other universities have at- Bandler ’17. in managers, has caused morale ered more efficient than the wa- tempted, he looks to the corpo- SPORTS STAFF to plummet within IS&T. Sensing that her managers terfall model. The time between rate world — insurance, financial, “The problem,” Baldwin said, were about to transform her role conception and deployment can and technology organizations — Editor: Souparno Ghosh G; Staff: Margaret H. “[is] that the organization is kind into a developer position, which be dramatically decreased. for examples of similar changes. Carpenter ’17, Ali C. Soylemezoglu ’17, Zachary of being gutted and demoralized.” would take time away from do- IS&T is attempting to apply Charles cites Google, Apple, Am- Collins ’19, Yueyang Ying ’19. ing the support work she enjoyed, the agile approach to the entire azon, and Netflix as inspiration ARTS STAFF A former employee speaks Baldwin decided it was time: only organization. “Agile organiza- and for having similar “maker- up three days after her meeting, she tions,” Charles wrote in a Feb- based” cultures to MIT. Editors: Karleigh Moore ’16, Tara Lee ’17; Assoc­ Laura Baldwin had spent more resigned. ruary email, “need empowered Not everyone feels that in- iate Editor: Nafisa Syed ’19; Staff: Josh Cowls G, than half of her life at IS&T. After In a dramatic display, Baldwin leadership at the individual and dustry and MIT cultures are Denis Bozic ’15, Ka-Yen Yau ’18. graduating from MIT in 1989, she met with one of her managers team levels — that means less comparable.

PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF volunteered for eight years while and ended with the line, “In the management and more fluidity.” “MIT is not a one-size-fits- in graduate school at Tufts and words of my people … offer me He acknowledged that the “ca- all organization,” Teddy Thomas Editors: Lenny Martinez ’17, Daniel Mirny ’18, then spent a subsequent 17 years money … power too, promise me said, who worked at IS&T for 1.5 Robert Rusch ’18; Associate ­ Editors: Ho Yin working full-time. Her most re- that. Offer me anything I want … I years before resigning this June Au ’13, Tristan Honscheid ’18; Staff: Alexander cent position had been at the help want my managers back, you son “MIT is not a 15. “Just because something C. Bost G, David Da He G, Kento Masuyama G, desk in the support department. of a bitch.” one-size-fits-all works somewhere else doesn’t Melissa Renée Schumacher G, Christopher In that time, Baldwin saw the “I will always be grateful to my mean it will work at MIT.” A. Maynor ’15, Sherry Ren ’15, Sarah Liu ’16, organization change a number of grandboss for allowing me to use organization.” Baldwin described the new Landon Carter ’17, Chaarushena Deb ’18, Megan times. In 1995, it switched from my chosen exit line,” she wrote approach as a “‘we’re-a-compa- six departments to five new teams later on her LiveJournal blog. ny’ mindset.” Prakash ’18, Jessie Wang ’19. that worked under the motto Baldwin’s experiences are not reer progressions” for individu- “There has been a lot of lip CAMPUS LIFE STAFF “great systems fast.” The year 2004 unique, and she is worried about als would change and that sev- service paid to the idea that we’re saw it expand from Information her former colleagues. “The ca- eral managers would transition partners with the MIT depart- Editor: Kath Xu ’16; Associate ­ Editor: Chloe Systems into IS&T as it merged sualty rate is still going up, and I to “lateral/same-level individual ments and communities in pro- Yang ’19; Staff: Elaine Lin ’18, Jing Lin ’18, Nina with another organization, Fi- feel like I know very few people [at contributor leadership roles.” viding service,” she said, “but if Lutz ’19, Michal Shlapentokh-Rothman ’19. nancial Systems Services. In 2005, IS&T] who are not either looking In an email interview with The we’re behaving in ways that are BUSINESS STAFF 2006, and 2010, the organization for jobs or wishing that they had Tech, Charles said there was a much more corporate, it’s unclear underwent further expansions time to look for jobs, and it’s just need for “transforming, expand- how true that is.” Advertising Managers: Angela Leong ’18, Jessica and changes. going to get worse,” she said. ing, and refreshing skillsets” of She went on to add, more gen- Pointing ’18; Operations Manager: Christopher IS&T employees. erally, that she thinks the changes Wang ’19; Staff: Nayeon Kim ’16, Madeline J. The vision for an agile While MIT’s IT department “bring you more to the average O’Grady ’16, Joyce Zhang ’16, Michelle Chao ’17, Baldwin spent future has seen its fair share of reorgani- of what everyone else does,” po- Casey Crownhart ’17, Fiona Lam ’17, Junsheng In 2012, shortly after Israel zations in its 33 years of existence, tentially destroying the “unique Ma ’17, Eli D. Scher-Zagier ’18, Amy Wang ’18, more than half Ruiz was appointed MIT’s execu- this one may be unique in the culture” that existed in MIT’s IT Catherine Looby ’19, Jisoo Min ’19, Caroline her life at IS&T. tive vice president and treasurer, number of people that have left as department before. Pech ’19, Milka Piszczek ’19, Katherine Wang ’19. he applied the tried and tested a result. Baldwin thinks that even if concept of external visiting com- During IS&T’s last reorgani- some of the industry standards TECHNOLOGY STAFF Baldwin enjoyed her job of mittees — designed to provide zation in 2010, 19 IS&T staff were work for the software develop- Director: Jiahao Li ’18; Staff: Greg interfacing with students and universities’ academic depart- laid off. While the number of “in- ment aspects of IS&T, the agile Steinbrecher G, Zygimantas Straznickas ’17. faculty on campus and working ments with outside feedback ev- voluntary separations” during framework and the measurable to resolve their IT problems. Her ery few years — to the IS&T office this restructuring was similar — metrics that were introduced EDITORS AT LARGE managers appreciated her work he was now in charge of. The re- 17 between February and August alongside it are not appropriate Contributing Editors: Sanjana Srivastava ’18, as well; Baldwin said she had al- sult was the 2012 IS&T Advisory according to an IS&T document for the support aspects of IS&T. ways received good annual per- Council. — many others also chose to re- In the call center, she said, Ray Wang ’18; Senior Editors: Will Conway ’16, formance reviews with no serious That Council’s report, along sign or take an early retirement. staff used to take a support call Leon Lin ’16, Anthony Yu ’16. complaints. with an older 2009 working group ADVISORY BOARD However, when she was called report, formed the foundations into a meeting last October with for John Charles’s plan to revamp IS&T has developed “a culture of fear, Paul E. Schindler, Jr. ’74, V. Michael Bove ’83, two superiors and a Human Re- and modernize IS&T’s services. secrecy, double-speak, and a clear lack Barry S. Surman ’84, Deborah A. Levinson ’91, sources staff member, the mood After being appointed to his po- Karen Kaplan ’93, Saul Blumenthal ’98, Frank couldn’t have been more differ- sition at the end of 2013, Charles of respect from senior leadership, Dabek ’00, Satwiksai Seshasai ’01, Daniel Ryan ent. Her managers had several drew upon these reports and be- Thomas said. Bersak ’02, Eric J. Cholankeril ’02, Nathan concerns with her recent behav- gan a listening tour of his own to Collins SM ’03, Tiffany Dohzen ’06, Beckett ior responding to specific help meet with groups ranging from W. Sterner ’06, Marissa Vogt ’06, Andrew requests by MIT professors and IS&T staff and a student IS&T According to Charles in a No- and have as much time as needed T. Lukmann ’07, Zachary Ozer ’07, Austin employees. These included what advisory board, to IT governance vember meeting, 18.6 percent to write up the support “ticket” Chu ’08, Michael McGraw-Herdeg ’08, Marie they called “unprofessional com- and advisory committees. of IS&T staff members had left afterwards. After the reorganiza- Y. Thibault ’08, Ricardo Ramirez ’09, Nick munications” with a professor, By the end of 2014, Charles had IS&T since February, in com- tion, though, they were required and in particular the casual tone received the necessary approvals parison to 8 or 9 percent on an to finish the ticket and take an- Semenkovich ’09, Angeline Wang ’09, Quentin she had used in her online corre- for the 2020 Vision for IT@MIT average year. More staff members other call after two minutes. Smith ’10, Jeff Guo ’11, Joseph Maurer ’12, Ethan spondences. Baldwin maintains plan that he had helped develop. have left since that number was While that meant the call center A. Solomon ’12, Connor Kirschbaum ’13, Jessica she had tried her best to solve The plan concerned all informa- announced. metrics may have looked better, J. Pourian ’13, Anne Cai ’14, Jessica L. Wass ’14, the professor’s technical problem tion systems at MIT, but also fo- Baldwin thinks it came with the Bruno Faviero ’15, Kali Xu ’15, B. D. Colen. involving email servers, and had cused largely on IS&T. Disputed methodologies cost of lower quality tickets as

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE used similar language to what It was in February 2015 that Despite the fact that Charles staff members were pressured to she had used previously. For her letters were delivered to all IS&T and other managers have repeat- take more calls. Justine Cheng ’17. managers, though, the response staff members to inform them edly told staff members that the IS&T may also be shifting she had given the professor over about the changes. “Everyone will transformation would require The Tech (ISSN 0148-9607) is published on Thursdays during the aca- email had been unprofessional. experience some type of change,” their full support, there seems to IS&T, Page 5 demic year (except during MIT vacations) and monthly during the sum- mer by The Tech, Room W20-483, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. 02139. Subscriptions are $50.00 per year (third class). POSTMAS- TER: Please send all address changes to our mailing address: The Tech, An article published in The Tech last week miscontextualized a quote by Geoffrey Supran, who P.O. Box 397029, Cambridge, Mass. 02139-7029. TELEPHONE: Editorial: was quoted as saying that the Fossil Free MIT sit-in may occasionally disband if only a few members (617) 253-1541. Business: (617) 258-8324. Facsimile: (617) 258-8226. Ad- CORRECTIONS are present. In fact, he said that, in one specific instance, the sit-in disbanded when only a few mem- vertising, subscription, and typesetting rates available. Entire contents © bers were present, no administrators were in the offices, and the group had a meeting. 2016 The Tech. Printed by Turley Publications, Inc. Thursday, February 11, 2016 The Tech 5 FEATURE Reorganization intended to spur innovation Vice President John Charles has adopted industry practices such as agile development

IS&T, from Page 4 people re-assigned away from their “I think this is too little too late,” reorganization principles being One current employee, however, existing positions and then those Thomas said. openly documented online, other said she didn’t see “any connec- away from certain projects that same positions re-posted on the Baldwin said that the changes parts of IS&T have seen a culture of tion between their rollout and the hold value to MIT. One example is MIT Jobs website within days.” were “probably a good sign,” al- secrecy develop around them. transformation.” the development of future versions Many managers were demoted though her work in support would Some staff in managerial roles Many current and former em- of Athena, MIT’s academic com- from their supervisor roles, likely not have been affected. allegedly signed non-disparage- ployees worried that the quality puting environment that has been as part of the changes to make IS&T The switch to bimodal IT is ment agreements when resigning. of support that IS&T is providing around since 1983. a flatter organization. However, in supposed to help people know These agreements can be found in students and faculty has declined. Jonathan Reed ’02 was the sole several cases, new managers were “how to select the proper tools many organizations, and they gen- Because of the considerable loss IS&T employee in charge of Athena put in place as soon as their prede- and methodologies for the job,” erally prevent former employees of institutional knowledge from development, before resigning last cessors left. Charles said. This is a “critical first from taking actions that negatively people resigning, the organization July. Since then, “no staff mem- In data management, systems step in the transformation” toward affect the organization. As a result isn’t as well-equipped to manage bers have been assigned to work on engineering, and customer sup- a completely agile workplace that of these agreements, though, many several of its services, some said. Athena development,” Reed said. port, where most of the resignations is made up of “agile mindsets, agile staff were not available to be inter- “To the extent that we [at IS&T] There are still part-time contribu- occurred, at least 15 project manag- behaviors, agile practices, and ag- viewed for this story. actually have a mandate to provide tors, but Reed noted that they “can’t ers or team leaders left since the ile processes.” Even those who were inter- IT help and infrastructure and sup- provide the same level of support reorganization, according to orga- viewed requested anonymity be- port to the MIT community,” Bald- that a full-time staff member can.” cause they feared their identities win said, “we’re going to be screw- Charles acknowledged that fu- being revealed would hurt them ing that up.” ture development of Athena is up IS&T has tried to improve morale in small in their current jobs or in future Since 1983, MIT’s information in the air. Due to its shift “from on ways, such as adding treadmills, soda jobs. Some former employees were systems have been a key part of the premise datacenters to off premise concerned that their speaking out MIT experience. For example, one cloud” environments, IS&T is pre- machines, and free snacks across the would lead to retaliation on current of the first things a student now paring to close down its W91 data- offices. staff. does upon entering MIT is create center in 2017 and is simultaneously a Kerberos account that will act as rethinking the Athena clusters on Beyond the IS&T bubble their online identity during their campus. nization charts from IS&T’s website. “Gutted and demoralized” The impact of the reorganiza- time at the university. Two employees remarked on a Charles acknowledged the In order to be successful, the tion extends beyond just IS&T. Both The turmoil within IS&T will trend of staff members who were “disruptive work” in the transfor- transformation will require every- Charles and discontented employ- likely settle down, but beyond the MIT alumni either getting pushed mation, but said that the organi- one to buy into new philosophies, ees agree that the changes are af- buzzwords like “agile” and “inno- out or choosing to leave IS&T. One zational changes are due to “con- as Charles has emphasized in meet- fecting the greater MIT community. vation,” and beyond the managerial current employee, who is not an solidating teams around [their] ings. However, this has led to an en- Charles attributes the success of role changes, there is a more funda- MIT alumnus, hypothesized that new operating model.” vironment where people are hesi- several new IS&T services used by mental disagreement taking place. graduates are more likely to identify IS&T has tried to make the de- tant to express dissenting views, a the MIT community to the reorga- It’s an open question whether with MIT students and faculty, and tails of the upcoming four years ac- current employee said. nization and its accelerated devel- IS&T should be run based on the thus more willing to help out some cessible through the public-facing Baldwin agreed. “When it’s pre- opment cycle. One such platform principles that guided it through “quirky” person with their idiosyn- Future of IT@MIT website (it.mit. sented as a victory,” she said, “then is the newly released Developer the rich yet fragmented history of cratic projects — something that edu) and a wiki with commonly nobody feels like they can say, ‘No, Community Portal and its APIs that the past three decades, or based on is harder to do, and possibly even asked questions and answers, such actually, this is inconvenient. This allow MIT developers to access the norms of industry that could looked down upon, in post-reorga- as, “Who made the decision re- makes it harder to get our jobs various MIT data. “Two of our new lead to a more progressive yet un- nization IS&T. garding my title change?” done.’” APIs, Classrooms and Subjects, certain future. While everyone Reed added that the Athena IS&T also reports on the lat- These attitudes are indicative were built in response to student agrees that IS&T can and should system includes “a vast number of est version of the transformation of a larger morale crisis currently feedback,” he said. improve, a number of IS&T affili- under-utilized complex features (using version numbers like those taking place in parts of IS&T: what ates don’t want to see the defining that are in use only by a small, but used for software), which they an- Baldwin referred to as feeling “gut- aspects of MIT’s IT be thrown out highly vocal, subset of the MIT nounce at meetings or over emails, ted and demoralized.” with the transformation. community,” and that maintaining as well as publicly online. IS&T has developed “a culture Former employees Interestingly, that concern was them would require “active support In the latest version from No- of fear, secrecy, double-speak, and were concerned raised as far back as August 2012, from senior leadership.” vember, “IS&T v1.5,” Charles asked a clear lack of respect from IS&T se- when the IS&T Advisory Council Charles asserts that the trans- IS&T employees to step back nior leadership,” Thomas said. that their speaking released their report after assess- formation is about “enabling MIT’s from the Scrum model, instead Charles described this “stress” out would lead ing the state of IT. Two years before culture of innovation” and serv- providing them with the flexibil- as originating from employees’ the transformation would even be- ing the community in a “hopefully ity to choose whatever methodol- “disrupted relationships,” “new to retaliation on gin, members of academia and in- more effective and efficient way.” ogy they want to use, “whether it’s roles within new teams,” and their current staff. dustry were anticipating the strug- However, the belief among Scrum, waterfall, Kanban, or story- needing to adopt “new skills, new gles associated with change at MIT. those resigning is that the managers boards.” This process is known as methodologies, new processes, and “The MIT environment might are too focused on metrics to no- bimodal IT, and is once again an … new mindsets.” He agreed these Charles also highlighted two also be characterized as one of au- tice if they’re actually assisting the idea adapted from industry. difficulties are challenging, but other services that IS&T has in- tonomy and entrepreneurialism,” people who need it. A former em- The latest change seems like it maintained that they are necessary troduced at MIT — Dropbox for the report read. “Over time, this ployee posed the question, “Have would have resolved the concerns for modernizing IS&T. Business and GitHub Enterprise. culture has impacted core admin- these people lost touch with [those] that staff held in 2015, but it has IS&T has noticeably tried to im- It should be noted that these ser- istrative processes and systems, they’re helping?” not. prove morale in small ways, such vices were announced in August which have become disparate and For some skeptics, it has simply as adding treadmills, soda ma- and October of 2014, respectively, led to inefficiencies.” Uncertainty fueled the perception that upper chines, and free snacks across the months before the reorganization “It is now difficult to modern- “This was the first time in 13 management does not have a clear offices. Rather than appreciating began. ize systems and scale them to meet years (and 4 previous IS&T re-orgs) plan for the transformation. such amenities, however, those in- Their development originated the needs and expectations of the that I had seen managers and direc- Another former employee pre- terviewed took a cynical view and from a “series of proof-of-con- community. This cultural chal- tors demoted for no apparent rea- dicted that “groups will go back treated them as superficial attempts cept projects” that were launched lenge will need to be confronted in son,” Reed wrote in an email. “This to doing things the same way they to boost morale. during the planning stage of the order to achieve the vision of sim- was also the first time I had seen have for the last 20 years.” Furthermore, despite the IS&T transformation, Charles said. plified processes and systems.” Say Hello

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Mem- This project is supported by the Under This project is supported Taylor ShawtheClass of of is member better gets if youLife work at it. If you I’ve notreally- lookedaheadfarbe too It’s hard to make newfriends. Partly, it’s I’ve put allmy aspirations- onhold.Ipri My areally to be vision used big, sensitive Last semester, courses two with Istarted I came back last tofall.Livingonmy MIT Thursday, February 11, February 2016Thursday, together.mit.edu. To ac ​s Committee onStu- - - Thursday, February 11, 2016 The Tech 13 Find your place Departments, key to the BSU’s proposal, have not yet shown at The Tech support, working group says MIT initiatives have set precedents in correcting bias N O T E BSU, from Page 1 Officer Edmund Bertschinger be- son in the administration to bring S lieves that DLC reluctance to sup- concerns to. Kolenbrander consid- ply specifically to DLCs (Depart- port the recommendations comes ers this an “aspirational goal.” ments, Laboratories, and Centers). from the fact that many faculty MIT also has a history of setting One calls for “a formal statement “don’t know how to have conver- precedents in efforts to correct bias from the leader … affirming MIT’s sations about topics outside the and inequality in the community. commitment to students’ health, classroom.” Faculty don’t realize In 1999, the faculty newsletter pub- diversity, and inclusion.” that their students would appreci- lished an article titled “A Study on This recommendation asks that ate discussions beyond academics, the Status of Women Faculty in Sci- each DLC head release a statement according to Bertschinger. ence at MIT” acknowledging and that mental and physical health is MIT Vice President Kirk Kolen- detailing discrimination and gen- considered more important than brander said there needs to be “a der bias that senior women faced. quality of work; that diversity in and process that allows DLCs to feel en- As a result, a flood of women facing inclusion of students, faculty, and gaged.” He said he understands why similar discrimination submitted staff is valuable; and (for depart- the recommendations ask every their stories to the newsletter, and ments) that they commit to MIT’s DLC to make the same statement many institutions reviewed their goal of doubling underrepresented and set the same goals, but feels own practices. minority (URM) faculty and tripling that DLCs should collaborate with The same was seen with MIT’s the percentage of URM graduate students and the working group to 2014 Community Attitudes on Sex- students within their department. write a statement rather than be ual Assault and 2015 Healthy Minds The other recommendation calls told exactly what to say. surveys, which Bertschinger con- for the “creation of a diversity repre- Students put forth the recom- siders “humble self study.” Both in- sentative within each department.” mendations, but they consist of spired other institutions to conduct The representatives “must have administrative changes that would similar studies. experience with and educational require senior leadership and fac- This project must also have a background specifically in diversity ulty to take action. This presents an- strong public presence, according and URM recruitment and reten- other challenge: because students to Bertschinger. MIT needs to “edu- tion in higher education,” and will want to ensure that progress is be- cate people not only about STEM develop and execute plans to meet ing made, they want to hold specific but also about the importance of the diversity goals. people accountable. Vice President mental wellbeing and diversity The working group faces chal- Kirk Kolenbrander considers cur- and inclusion,” he said. The efforts lenges in implementing DLC-spe- rent accountability measures to made here are especially relevant cific challenges. Senior leadership be inadequate — “otherwise we given that similar recommenda- is ready to pursue these recommen- wouldn’t be seeing [calls for ac- tions have recently been made at dations, as evidenced by the fact countability] in the recommenda- many schools. that a working group has already tions,” he said. The working group met with been created. Despite this, most One option is to make sure that BSU and BGSA representatives on DLCs have not shown support. every student group involved in the Dec. 1. It has had three meetings so Institute Community and Equity recommendations has a point per- far, and a fourth is upcoming.

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By Austin Ramzy they had been exposed to the virus. been occurring but misclassified in said. “But simply raising concern of children with neurological con- THE NEW YORK TIMES Even so, few cases of the illness had the region.” that there is a potential for it to oc- ditions, including microcephaly, been reported. Why the disease appears to cur eventually, we felt that was a Cao-Lormeau said. HONG KONG — Yap Island, a For more than half a century have been milder in Asia is un- solid statement that we could stand Links between the Zika virus tiny island in the Western Pacific there were no confirmed outbreaks clear. Smith said that aggressive behind.” and microcephaly and Guillain- best known for using huge stone of Zika, and only 14 confirmed hu- campaigns to vaccinate for Japa- When Zika appeared in French Barré have not been confirmed and discs as currency, was facing a man cases. nese encephalitis, a virus found in Polynesia in 2013, the outbreak on are still being studied. medical mystery. Then, in 2007, Zika appeared on Asia and the Western Pacific, may Yap had helped health officials pre- Small outbreaks in New Caledo- In 2007, doctors saw an alarm- Yap and nearby islands in Micro- have had an effect on Zika, but that pare. Labs in the far-flung area had nia, the Cook Islands and Easter Is- ing increase in the number of pa- nesia, 800 miles east of the Phil- premise had yet to be investigated. developed methods to test for Zika land were reported after the French tients with rashes, inflamed eyes ippines, where nearly 50 people “Maybe it has become much to help out other Pacific nations, Polynesia outbreak, and Zika has and joint pain. Initial tests provid- had been infected. Six years later, more aggressive, with a more se- said Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau, an in- probably spread even more widely ed no answers to what was making it showed up in French Polynesia, vere presentation and transmission fectious diseases researcher at In- in the Pacific without being detect- them sick. 5,000 miles to the southeast of Yap, as a result of it going across the Pa- stitut Louis Malardé on Tahiti, the ed, Cao-Lormeau and colleagues “We didn’t have any idea what it where thousands contracted the cific,” he said. “We won’t know until largest island in French Polynesia. wrote. might be,” said Lt. Col. Mark Duffy, virus. a lot more work has been done.” “This is a small country,” Cao- Researchers are not certain why a U.S. Air Force public health officer Zika has now infected an esti- Doctors in Yap soon knew they Lormeau said. “Everyone who the virus seems to be more aggres- assigned to work on the unknown mated 1.5 million people in Brazil were facing something different. worked in the lab had relatives or sive in the Americas than in Yap or ailment for the Centers for Disease and is rapidly spreading through No deaths or hospitalizations had friends who had seen something French Polynesia. One potential Control and Prevention’s epidemic many parts of the Americas. The been reported but 49 confirmed that looked like dengue. We had factor is the islands’ comparatively intelligence service. “There was newest outbreak has researchers cases and 59 probable cases were more and more cases.” small populations, Cao-Lormeau some thought it might be a dengue examining its trail across Asia and identified, far more than ever The outbreak in French Poly- said. outbreak.” the Pacific, trying to learn more before. nesia was explosive: An estimated “We are just 270,000 people,” Dengue is a potentially deadly about the first outbreaks of the Exactly how the virus got to the 28,000 people, more than 10 per- she said. “Because we are small, mosquito-borne disease that af- disease and why it appears to have remote archipelago is still unclear, cent of the territory’s population, maybe we won’t see as much ad- fects as many as 100 million people gotten so much worse. though an infected mosquito or sought treatment. And the poten- verse effects.” around the world each year. Chi- “Something very, very differ- person is the most likely culprit. tial side effects were more severe The other possibility research- kungunya, another virus spread by ent is going on there,” said Duncan Duffy noted in a paper for The New than any that had been seen before. ers are considering: The virus has mosquitoes, was also considered. Smith, an infectious diseases re- England Journal of Medicine in The incidence of Guillain-Barré mutated and gotten worse. But patients’ blood samples searcher at Mahidol University in 2009 that a medical volunteer on syndrome, a disease that causes tested by a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Thailand. “We don’t know what it is Yap returned to the United States the immune system to attack the MIT Medical has made Zika Colorado, confirmed that the doc- at the moment.” in July 2007 and tested positive for nervous system, sometimes caus- virus tests available to certain tors were seeing something novel: For much of its history, Zika Zika antibodies, indicating a likely ing paralysis, was 20 times higher community members who have It was the world’s first significant was subject to little research. Just 1 infection. than what would be normally ex- recently returned from an area Zika outbreak. in 5 people who were infected de- Air travel and the abundance pected, Cao-Lormeau and col- affected by the virus, according For most of its known existence, veloped symptoms, and they were of mosquitoes in the Pacific region leagues wrote in a 2014 edition of to an email. Zika was little more than a scien- usually mild and often mistaken for “raise concern for the spread of the journal Clinical Microbiology Only travelers who are tific curiosity. After its discovery in other illnesses. Zika virus to other islands in Ocea- and Infection. exhibiting symptoms, have 1947, in the forest in Uganda that “There were these odd cases nia and even to the Americas,” the After cases of microcephaly, Guillain-Barré syndrome, or gave the virus its name, it spread popping up from time to time,” paper said. infants born with abnormally are pregnant are elligible for slowly across Africa and Asia. Blood Smith said. “There is so much den- “As an epidemiologist, when small heads, appeared in Brazil, testing. tests have found Zika antibodies in gue in this area, and the symptoms you start making predictions about researchers in French Polynesia "As testing becomes more people in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, of dengue and Zika are quite simi- how some of these things are going did a retrospective investigation of widely available, this will Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand lar — rash, fever, muscle aches and to behave, they’re going to make women who were pregnant during change," the email said. and Indonesia — evidence that pains. I wonder if cases of Zika have you look silly every time,” Duffy the outbreak. They found 17 cases

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