Contents

On this section of the website, you can find a list and links to:

• Recurring news and updates
• Historical information
• Departmental surveys and reports
• Institute diversity, equity, and inclusion reports and recommendations
• Useful datasets
• National surveys and reports,

and other forms of documentation related to past initiatives or that may be relevant for future initiatives. We hope this information will both help our community not only understand how far we have come but also assist groups looking to help guide new changes. Student groups or department committees seeking access to specific surveys or data -- or hoping to hold a survey themselves -- may contact our committee for direction in these matters. 

Recurring News and Updates

• Weekly messages to the community from department chair Peter Fisher
• Weekly MIT Physics Student Newsletter
• Annual Physics@MIT journal
• Periodic physics department news articles
• MIT Faculty Newsletter
• MIT News

Historical Information

• History of the MIT Department of Physics
• History of the PVC
• Major changes in the department

List of Known Departmental Surveys and Follow-Up Reports

• Fall 2020: SPS and PGSC Presidents' survey on student support and communication resources
• Fall 2020: PGSC-GAGA survey of faculty and graduate students on metrics of success
• Summer 2020: PGSC Recommendations on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (recommendations, progress scorecard)
• Summer 2020: SPS Steps Towards Diversity and Inclusion (recommendations, progress scorecard)
• Fall 2019: Revised Physics Department Advising Guidelines for undergraduate and graduate students 
• 2015: Summary Report of the MIT Physics Graduate Qualifying Exam Survey 

Institute DEI Reports and Recommendations 

• 2020 RISE Campaign Demands
• 2020 NASEM Working Groups Recommendations
• 2018 Recommendations Scorecard (link deprecated, find at Wayback Machine internet archive here)
• 2016 Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT
• 2016 LGBTQ+ Students and Communities
• 2015 Report of the ICEO
• 2015 BGSA and BSU Recommendations
• 2014 Community Attitudes on Sexual Assault
• 2012 Institute Diversity Summit
• 2011 Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the SoS and SoE
• 2010 Report on the Initiatives for Faculty Race and Diversity
• 2015 - 2019 Title IX and Bias Response Annual Reports
• 1999 - 2019 Accreditation Reports (check out faculty diversity section)

Here is also a list of reports from ICEO. 

Useful datasets

• MIT Institutional Research Data Browser
• MIT Registrar Statistics and Reports
• MIT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Data from ICEO
• American Physical Society: How does your institution compare degree data
• American Institute of Physics Statistical Research
• National Center for Education Statistics datasets about colleges and universities nationwide

National Surveys and Reports

• Fall 2019: American Institute of Physics Report, "The Time Is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy"
• Spring 2019: Physical Review article - "Sexual harassment reported by undergraduate women physicists" (peer-reviewed research, summary article)
• Fall 2018: National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Report, "Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine"
• 2018: American Astronomical Society Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education Report