Dear Physics Community,
You may have heard that the Office of the Vice-Chancellor has sent a letter to require all graduate students outside the US to return to the US or risk losing their support from MIT. A similar directive was issued in the Fall. As in the Fall, the Department will work with all such affected students to arrange that they can remain where they are and continue to receive support from our Department. In some cases, this will mean changing how they are supported, and in others, it will mean us helping them through an exception process.
Our Academic Programs Administrator Cathy Modica will lead this effort, and we expect, as was the case in Fall, that we will be able to find solutions for all our impacted students. The downside to this is that it will consume staff time and discretionary funds, but supporting our graduate students is our top priority, and we will have to live with the consequences. We are a strong Department, and we will manage, though I do not know how at this moment.
Thank you to everyone on the Physics staff for their work on this. They have been ahead of the curve since Monday.
Peter
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