Letter regarding new roles in senior administration
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif. Dear faculty and staff colleagues, I write to inform you that I have asked a few members of the senior administration to step up to new responsibilities. The agenda I laid out in my inaugural remarks included bold aspirations and new initiatives for MIT. Over the past two and a half years, with inspired leadership from our faculty, we have made progress in many areas. To accelerate our progress as we prepare for a major capital campaign, I believe we need a slightly different structure, so I am making the following changes, effective today: Vice President Kirk Kolenbrander will adjust his portfolio to take on new responsibilities, working closely with our senior academic leadership -- Provost Marty Schmidt, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber -- to implement MIT's emerging initiatives. He will continue to advance...