MIT Sloan’s new campus
It is a testament to the commitment of both MIT Sloan’s faculty and its students that they have managed to thrive despite an aging infrastructure, a fragmented campus, and a shortage of community space. But if the School is to continue to draw the top faculty, students, and staff, it must provide a world-class intellectual and physical environment.
MIT Sloan has developed a strategy to do just that, with plans for a multi-phased 325,000-square-foot complex that will create a vibrant new community for the study of management and economics at MIT.
The School’s new physical plant at the eastern edge of campus will integrate facilities for MIT Sloan, the Department of Economics, and the Dewey Library. It will include vibrant and majestic community spaces for key programs and co-curricular activities—including essential space for executive education and M.B.A. program classes, faculty offices, and conferences.
And, in the spirit of architect William Welles Bosworth’s turn-of-the-century vision for the MIT campus, the plans include a dramatic grassy courtyard overlooking the Charles River that will be ringed by cafés and other social spaces in the surrounding buildings. With sweeping views of the Charles and downtown Boston, the new complex will also serve as an eastern entrance to the entire campus, linking MIT Sloan to Boston, Cambridge, and the rest of the Institute.
This project will realize many long-held goals for the community it will serve, bringing the MIT Sloan School faculty together under one roof for the first time, uniting them with their colleagues in the economics department, and creating a “heart” for the School by providing areas that promote collaboration and integrate the academic infrastructure into the lives of students.
At long last, MIT Sloan will be able to deliver on Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s charge to house faculty and staff together “for unity of purpose.”
To discuss a gift in support of MIT Sloan’s new campus, please contact Cynthia Albert Link, executive director, MIT Sloan resource development, at cynlink@mit.edu or 617.324.6011.
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