Thomas A. Kochan, chair of the MIT faculty and professor of management, describes the next steps in MIT's collaboration with Haiti. "Our role in helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of how we respond to requests for engagement. Clearly, the magnitude of the [...]
As a proof-of-concept, OCW collaborated with Université Caraïbe, Mr. Menès Dejoie (Haitian Educators League for Progress), and Professors Alfred Noël (UMass-Boston) and Michel DeGraff (MIT) to produce a translated caption file for a lecture in MIT's 18.01 Single Variable Calculus. We have embedded OCW's site here--you can also view the [...]
Jacky Lumarque Jacky LUMARQUE graduated in Mathematics (Université Toulouse III, France). He also holds an MBA (Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France) and a Bachelor in Law (Common Law, Université Lyon III, France). He's the President of Université Quisqueya, Member of the Board of Directors of AUF (Agence Universitaire de [...]
In the preface, Dr. Louis Herns Marcelin, describes the goals of the report on The Challenge for Haitian Higher Education as: "The goal of this study is to contribute to a national and international dialogue and to recommend solutions to the higher education challenges facing the nation. We identify deficiencies [...]
Mme. Michèle Pierre-Louis describes the importance of rebuilding Haiti's education system and of incorporating Haitian voices and Haitian culture in the international reconstruction efforts: "I’ve been an educator for part of my life, and I think education is very significant. Rebuilding the education [system] is rebuilding the future of [...]
We asked participants from Haiti to describe: What projects would you like to help sustain or help initiate and develop through your participation in the symposium and through subsequent partnerships between MIT and Haitian academic institutions? A number of the participants responded: Patrick Attié and Marlene Sam FOKAL Sergey Galliard [...]