The MIT Alumni Association (MITAA) is treated as an MIT operating unit. Its expenses, including compensation for its 100+ staffers, are funded through MIT’s General Institute Budget. MITAA long-time CEO Whitney Espich reports directly to the President of MIT.

Any claims that the MITAA is not an independent 501(c)(3) dedicated to serving MIT’s living alumni but is instead a captive organization serving the interests of the MIT administration that covers its payroll is misinformation.

Any allegations that the primary function of the MITAA is to faithfully transmit approved administration narratives to credulous alumni in order to coax them into opening their wallets to feed MIT’s bloated administration and its woke initiatives is scurrilous fabulism.

How do we know that the MITAA is independent? Because its directors and president are chosen by the Alumni Association Selection Committee (AASC), which is the only body of Association volunteers elected by the alumni body at large.

Any complaints that the procedure for nominating alumni to be elected to the AASC excludes candidates at the sole discretion of the MITAA staff, thereby assuring fealty to the administration that pays them, must be ignored.

But to assuage false concerns that have been raised by excluded nominees, an AASC Ballot Screening Committee (BSC) has recently been established to perform the task of excluding undesirable nominees. Members of the BSC are chosen at the sole discretion of the President-Select of the MITAA, who has proven his independence by successfully climbing the greasy pole of insiders.

Any suggestion that layering one opaque process controlled by insiders atop another opaque process controlled by insiders is designed to insulate MITAA leadership from including disgruntled MIT alumni eager to help their beloved alma mater recover from the Woke Mind Virus is fake news perpetrated by transgressive nerds on the wrong side of history.