Word: vestã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Vest??€™s administration also oversaw the creation of MIT’s recent OpenCourseWare initiative, which places the teaching materials for over 2,000 of its courses—including science classes that address potentially sensitive subject areas—freely available online...
...Vest??€™s work on improving faculty diversity—and in particular appointing more women to senior positions within both the faculty and the administration—has garnered approbation from within the university and across the nation, according to Nancy H. Hopkins ’64, a professor of biology at MIT and one of the school’s foremost advocates for gender equality in research...
Hopkins said that Vest??€™s work in this area helped to catalyze a national debate on the inequalities faced by women in higher education, especially in the sciences...
MIT’s endowment grew from $1.4 billion to $5.1 billion during Vest??€™s tenure, and The New York Times reported that Vest??€™s stepping-down coincided with the successful conclusion of the multi-billion dollar capital campaign...
...spokesperson declined to comment about the relationship between the drop in the endowment, recent budget cutbacks and the timing of Vest??€™s announcement...