MIT offers an extensive support system to help you achieve goals and conquer challenges, both personal and professional.
New opportunities for growth, new outlets for guidance, and new avenues of support are always emerging within the community. We have collected a few of the core support systems here. Once you arrive at these websites, you are bound to discover additional networks and resources——and don't forget to explore the Growing & Learning section of this website.
Free or low-cost programs, classes, and workshops dedicated to individual and group health and wellbeing. Center staff will even create custom workshops for your office, lab, or department.
This nationally-acclaimed center provides all members of the MIT community with advice, referrals, and resources on parenting, child care, schools, and job flexibility and oversees the Institute’s child-care centers.
Short-term summer programs offer children ages 6-14 guided experiences in athletics, crafts, and team building.
A dynamic portal to the hundreds of services, activities, programs, and groups that support personal, family, and community life at MIT.
With 400+ members from all over the world, this support network offers special events, parties, and programs for spouses and partners of MIT staff and students.
MIT operates child-care centers in Cambridge and Lexington so that parents can choose the location most convenient to home or work.
Information and services on recruitment, training, benefits, job openings, and career and retirement planning. HR also offers guidance on reconciling differences and reaching consensus with colleagues, supervisors, and supervisees. Visit the HR site to contact the human resource officer (HRO) assigned to your department.
For international faculty and staff, the ISO is an indispensable resource for obtaining visas and guidance on immigration issues such as health insurance, taxes, language courses, and arranging employment for spouses. Don’t miss ISO’s weekly orientation sessions.
Links with information to make your job easier, and to assist you both professionally and personally.
Independent, impartial, and confidential support to members of the MIT community to help them express concerns, resolve disputes, manage conflicts, and learn more productive ways of communicating.
Information about postdoctoral positions, policies, procedures, and resources designed for the 800+ post docs on the MIT campus.
Career-focused courses in such areas as computer training, mananagement, collaboration, leadership, communication, and project planning.
The Support Staff Peer Connection Program provides new Support Staff with an experienced colleague who can help navigate MIT during their first year (also called the "onboarding" period).
WGSSI brings together support and administrative staff throughout the Institute to address issues of concern to support staff employees at MIT.
