Congratulations May Graduates!

May 18, 2013 by Carolyn Meyer
Categories: Events, GSIPM

This is that bittersweet time of year when we congratulate our graduates and say “farewell” to seeing them on campus as “students”. It’s reassuring to know that the MIIS family extends beyond our campus boundaries through continued friendships, city alumni … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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FMS Domestic Program Still Accepting Applications for SE and Impact Investing Training and Summer Field Placements

May 17, 2013 by Carolyn Meyer
Categories: GSIPM

    Apply for a new US-based field program and training in Salt Lake City, Utah this summer. The FMS program will launch a domestic training program on May 28, 2013 at the Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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GSIPM and Frontier Market Scouts Host 35 Chinese Social Enterpreneurs

May 17, 2013 by Carolyn Meyer
Categories: Events, GSIPM

GSIPM’s Frontier Market Scouts program hosted 35 Chinese social entrepreneurs on ECSEL fellowships for a Point Lobos hike and beach bonfire at Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach this past April. ECSEL brings together China’s top social entrepreneurs for self-learning, collaboration, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Graduate Writing Center Offers Extended Hours Next Week!

May 16, 2013 by Kelley Calvert
Categories: Graduate Writing Center

To assist you with final papers, the Graduate Writing Center (GWC) is offering extended hours next week by appointment only. If you are interested in an appointment, please email writingcenter@miis.edu with the day and time you would like to come. Please offer 2-3 possible time slots. We will get back to you promptly to set [...] Continue reading →

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Prof. María Sierra Córdoba Serrano comes out with a new book

May 16, 2013 by GSTILE
Categories: GSTILE

The University of Ottawa Press, Canada’s oldest French language university press and the only bilingual university press in North America, has just published Prof. María Sierra Córdoba Serrano’s work Le Québec traduit en Espagne: analyse sociologique de l’exportation d’une culture périphérique. The book was selected by the publisher to be showcased at the 2013 ACFAS [...] Continue reading →

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Curriculum Design Trade Fair

May 13, 2013 by Natalie Sherman
Categories: Events, GSTILE

When: Friday, May 17, 12:00 – 2:00PM Where: CF 434 TESOL and TFL students from professor Peter Shaw’s Curriculum Design course invite you to view the innovative syllabi, unit designs, lesson plans and materials produced this semester. Engage with projects based in a variety of Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, EFL and ESL contexts and [...] Continue reading →

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A day in the life of Anna McCloskey

May 12, 2013 by Kirsten Greene
Categories: Student Services

I am here at MIIS getting a dual degree in International Education Management (IEM) and Public Administration (MPA). This is my second semester here, so … Continue reading →

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Foster Youth Backpack Drive

May 10, 2013 by Natalie Sherman
Categories: Events, Student Services

Photo credit: Dan Previte, Flickr Creative Commons
When: ’til May 31
Where: Casa Fuente 443 (Enrollment Office)
To commemorate National Foster Care Month this May, the Institute’s Enrollment … Continue reading →

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MIIS Student Wins Student Innovator Award at Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition

May 9, 2013 by Michael Houseman
Categories: Events, GSIPM

Monterey Institute student Jessica “Jessy” Bradish (MAIEP/MBA ’13) received the 2013 Student Innovator Award at the Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition last Friday. ”Winning the Student Innovator Award was a wonderful culmination of my joint Masters in International Environmental … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Update: MIIS Alum in Afghanistan

May 9, 2013 by GSTILE
Categories: GSTILE

MIIS Alum Tara Bates, M.A. TESOL 2007, started out teaching ELF (English as a lingua franca) in Afghanistan. At about the same time her ELF fellowship finished, Kabul Education University had started working on a project and unexpectedly needed a course designer/mentor for their Afghan instructors. Bates offered to fill in for one semester. KEU seemed to like the work [...] Continue reading →

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