Surveying the quality of life at MIT
The MIT Council on Family and Work today released a new Quality of Life Survey for faculty, staff, and students at MIT. Results from the voluntary and anonymous survey, which can be taken starting today, will inform initiatives to improve the work-life experience for the MIT campus community and Lincoln Laboratory. Faculty and staff were surveyed on similar issues in 2012 and 2016, students in 2013 and 2017. Beginning this year, the entire MIT community is being surveyed at the same time. The council’s co-chairs, Amy Glasmeier, a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Ken Goldsmith, assistant dean for finance and administration in the School of Architecture and Planning, view the 2020 survey as an opportunity to gather data from the community that will inform senior leadership about how to make MIT a supportive and inclusive environment where everyone can excel. Email invitations, sent today to the MIT community,...