Areas of Oversight and Collaboration
The Provost’s Office team provides advice and counsel to the senior leaders of the schools and colleges, key offices, and affiliated institutes in furthering MIT’s commitment to best-in-class academics and research.
View our org chart01.Schools and colleges#Section link copied to clipboard
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Bringing together architects, planners, artists, engineers, scientists, and historians, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) addresses problems and challenges in the space between people and their environment.
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The School of Engineering’s mission is to educate the next generation of engineering leaders, to create new knowledge, and to serve society.
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The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences empowers MIT students with political, economic, cultural, and historical perspectives, and also conducts discovery-driven basic research in related disciplines.
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The mission of the Sloan School of Management is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice.
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The School of Science educates students and pursues foundational research in six academic departments — biology, brain and cognitive sciences, chemistry, earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, mathematics, and physics — as well as multiple institutes, labs, and centers.
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The Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is addressing the opportunities and challenges of the computing age by supporting the rapid evolution and growth of computer science and AI, facilitating collaborations between computing and other disciplines, and advancing multidisciplinary efforts in the study and practice of socially responsible computing.
02.Key offices#Section link copied to clipboard
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Institutional Research provides analytical support to the provost, academic departments, and the broader MIT community.
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The Libraries are an engine for creating, sharing, and safeguarding knowledge at the Institute and beyond. The Libraries work to improve access to the world’s collective knowledge and support the MIT community in many ways.
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Office of Innovation and Strategy
The Office of Innovation and Strategy advances the Institute’s strategic research, educational, and entrepreneurship priorities. It has launched a number of cross-disciplinary initiatives and programs to drive innovation in key areas. These include: the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium, the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative, the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing, and the MIT-GE Vernova Alliance.
03.Affiliated institutes and units#Section link copied to clipboard
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Axim Collaborative’s mission is to make learning more accessible, more relevant, and more effective for a diverse set of learners.
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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is a research organization that convenes a community of researchers from across many disciplines and partner institutions—MIT, Harvard, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals—to better understand the roots of disease and narrow the gap between new biological insights and impact for patients.
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CMRAE’s aim is to enrich our knowledge of past and present day non-industrial societies by making the natural and engineering sciences part of our investigative tool kit.
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The McGovern Institute is committed to understanding how the brain works and discovering new ways to treat brain disorders. Researchers study the brain at many levels, from molecular genetics to functional brain imaging, and collaborate with academic, clinical, and industry partners to challenge and probe the unknown.
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The Ragon Institute was established in 2009 with a mission to harness the immune system to combat and cure human diseases. It leverages collaboration between scientists, clinicians and engineers to break down barriers and transform human health on a global scale.
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Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation. Solve finds tech-based entrepreneurs from all around the world and connects them with MIT’s innovation ecosystem and a community of supporters to fund and champion them, helping to drive lasting, transformational impact.
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Whitehead Institute’s mission is to forge new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow.
04.Vice provost areas#Section link copied to clipboard
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Led by the vice provost for the arts, the Provost’s Office oversees extra-curricular arts programming, including the List Visual Arts Center, MIT Museum, Council for the Arts at MIT and student arts programs. The Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is a joint initiative of the Office of the Provost, SHASS, and SA+P.
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Led by Vice Provost Brent D. Ryan, the Provost’s Office is responsible for the oversight of campus space management, including the Institute’s space assignments, renovations, and lease budget. The office helps to identify space for academic activities across the Institute. The office also helps to coordinate long-range campus planning and stewardship for large-scale capital projects in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice President and Treasurer.
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Under the leadership of Executive Vice Provost Paula Hammond, the Provost’s Office provides intellectual leadership, guidance, and oversight of university-wide strategies and programs to support faculty excellence and advancement.
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Directed by Vice Provost Duane Boning, Global MIT represents the Institute’s vision and commitment to international engagement, which is central to MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and others areas of scholarship.
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Led by Vice Provost Dimitris Bertsimas, Open Learning transforms teaching and learning at MIT and around the globe through the innovative use of digital technologies.
05.Committees#Section link copied to clipboard
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Develop recommendations regarding the question of fossil fuel industry funding for the Climate Project at MIT.
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The Ad Hoc Working Group on Online Continuing and Professional Education (OCPE) is focused on engaging with the MIT community to address implementation challenges and further explore policies that will enhance and broaden participation in OCPE activities. The group’s efforts will help enhance access and stronger coordination across MIT’s OCPE programs.
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The Administrative Advisory Council II (AACII) is intended to establish a forum for thoughtful, sustained interaction among representatives of administrative areas and administrators from academic departments, research labs and centers.
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Broad Institute Collaboration Coordinating Committee
The CCC is charged with strengthening and shepherding the collaboration of Broad and its partner institutions. Responsibilities of the committee include suggesting or reviewing policies for consideration by The Broad Institute and its partner institutions to ensure effective functioning of the collaboration among the parties, providing a forum to discuss major directions of The Broad Institute, and discussing the decision-making process by which its scientific agenda is driven.
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The Building Committee is responsible for long-range space planning and utilization for the Institute and for land acquisition strategy. In conjunction with the Committee for Renovation and Space Planning (CRSP), the Building Committee provides oversight for all aspects of campus planning and stewardship.
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CRSP is the Institute’s primary functioning body for making decisions and recommendations about all projects and assignments related to space, planning, and capital projects.
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Digital Accessibility Implementation Team (DAIT)
DAIT is charged with developing scope, guidance and recommendations for purchasing, developing, and implementing of information and communication technology.
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The Employee Benefits Oversight Committee is charged with providing integrated oversight of all employee benefits matters.
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As the Institute’s committee on strategic enrollment issues, the Enrollment Management Group (EMG) is charged with delivering an annual set of four recommendations to the Academic Council:
- Freshman and transfer class size
- Undergraduate and graduate housing, dining and student life fee pricing
- Undergraduate and graduate tuition pricing
- Undergraduate financial aid changes in the context of current strategy and policies
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Faculty Complaint Review Panel
Members of the Faculty Compliant Review Panel review allegations of policy violations by faculty, and recommend appropriate sanctions if a policy violation has occurred.
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Financial Scenarios Working Group
The Financial Scenarios Working Group considers and models a range of options to help MIT respond to new budget constraints and to others that may emerge.
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The Future of the Arts Committee will advise the Institute on new ways to envision the place of the arts at MIT.
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MIT’s Gift Acceptance Committee is the Institute’s principal forum to evaluate if its philanthropic activities are consistent with the Institute’s mission and values and thereby protect its reputation.
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The MIT Gift Policy Committee is charged with developing, updating, and distributing policies that inform the solicitation, administration, and recognition of gifts.
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The Infinite Mile Awards Program for the Offices of the Provost and Vice President for Research is designed to recognize those individuals or teams who have made extraordinary contributions within their own organizations to help the Institute carry out its mission.
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The ITGC is charged with the following:
- Provide high level oversight for strategic decisions to ensure the IT environment supports the mission of MIT.
- Review and endorse priorities and directions for research computing, major systems implementations and enhancements, cybersecurity, and IT policy at the Institute.
- Steer the Institute to address long-existing, difficult systems challenges.
- Identify and charge sub-committees or working groups as appropriate to complete the committee charge and provide funding and review of progress as needed.
- Advise executive vice president and treasurer and provost on IT matters at MIT.
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The mission of the International Advisory Committee is to provide a faculty voice in advising MIT’s senior administration on the Institute’s international engagements.
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The Advisory Board is composed of academic, government, and industrial leaders who assist Lincoln Laboratory and MIT leadership in evaluating and guiding the operation of the Laboratory. This committee meets annually with Laboratory directors and MIT’s provost and vice president for research to review and discuss the strategic direction of the Laboratory.
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In conjunction with the Director of the Press, the MIT Press Editorial Board is responsible for the editorial quality of the publishing programs at the Press and it advises the Press on editorial matters.
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The MIT Press Management Board serves as a non-fiduciary board of advisors for the Press within the Institute framework. The board ordinarily meets twice a year to review Press operations, to review reports, and to discuss strategy and policies for the future.
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The External Advisory Council provides review and assessment of the progress of the College to the provost, and offers advice and counsel to the dean of the College.
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MIT Technology Review Board
MIT Technology Review’s insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social and political impacts.
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The working group is charged with providing a common understanding of the issues at stake and the current legal and technical landscape and articulating an initial set of resources, guidance and principles for MIT community members.
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MITI (MIT International Board)
MITI’s purpose is to advance the mission and objectives of MIT; conduct, support and facilitate academic, research and related activities; secure and manage funding from individuals and entities within and outside of the United States; and make distributions to and for the benefit and support of MIT.
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The Ragon Institute Board supervises the daily operations and affairs of the Institute.
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Established in 2007 as a partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore, SMART is MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore. SMART enables MIT faculty to take on complex, large-scale advanced research projects in collaboration with colleagues at Singapore institutions.
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Solve’s Steering Committee guides Solve’s mission and anchors it to MIT’s resources, expertise, and commitment to global impact.
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Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Administration and Operations
The group works to understand what tools, technologies and commercial products are available or in development that could be used at MIT.
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View past committees and the reports resulting from their work.