Think you can hack it at MIT? If so, the world-renowned university is willing to give you a new kind of credential to prove it. Not a full-fledged diploma - that's still a possibility only for the 10,000 or so students admitted to its Cambridge, Mass., campus. But today, MIT is announcing that for the first time it will offer credentials - under the name "MITx" - to students who complete the online version of certain courses, starting with a pilot program this spring.
Recommendations Louise Novation: 'Daums and Dusks' Every year, on the campus of MIT, freshmen discover Transparent Horizon, Louise Nevelson's towering work of angular black steel, and every year, demanding its removal, they hurt paint at the thing. Becky Yee: 'More Than a Woman' Commercial photographer Becky Yee has taken her skills in shooting rock stars to a computer engineer's drab Tokyo apartment where she's uncovered a prevalent but well-hidden Japanese subculture: the collecting of sex dolls.
... at the 10th annual EmTech@MIT on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 2:30 ...
Cornell, MIT, Yale - for the students of Chesapeake Science Point, it's all part of an average school day. That's because the school names classes at its Hanover campus after a variety of Ivy League universities. It's all part of the educational mission.
...21-23 at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. element14 will sponsor and host ...
John Kerry's insult of the troops in Iraq actually offered a little insight. His "advice" to students at Pasadena City Community College in California would have been conventional wisdom on almost any "elite" campus, particularly in the Ivy League, where almost anyone is eager to tell you that only chumps go to Iraq or anywhere within the sound of the guns. When President Nixon ended the draft of an earlier generation the principled protests against the Vietnam War vanished overnight. Most of the Ivy League schools continue to bar the ROTC from campus. Harvard booted ROTC in 1969 and banished it again in 1993, presumably because the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy violated campus ideals. The crimson cadets train now at MIT, funded by an alumni trust.
An MIT graduate who once wrote a book about networking on the school's campus has taken over management of the Silicon Pastures angel investing network. Teresa Esser, 33, will evaluate deals and choose which young companies to present as investment opportunities to the network's 20 wealthy members. She succeeds her husband, Pehr Anderson, who will continue to be involved with the network as chairman and chief technology consultant.
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