To: All Students Participating in Commencement

Spring Commencement is on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 1:00PM !!
Location: Colton Hall Lawn, Monterey, CA

If you haven’t checked out the Graduate Information Sheet, please take a look at the pdf. On there you will find detailed information about how to wear the cap and gown, info for guests, alumni info and graduate gifts, and the schedule of the ceremony.

For more resources such as electronic invitations/announcements, please visit the Graduating Students Information blog.

I would like to offer students a 40% discount on color and haircut services. I have a daughter in college and understand that most students are broke! They should still have pretty hair. I specialize in highlighting, color and color correction.

So, if someone comes in between 9am and 3pm (no later), I can do their color and trim/cut for $100.

That’s a full head of highlights done by the “highlight queen”! That’s what my clients call me. If they just want a few, it will be less.

I just joined Yelp, so I have my own ad page. There, I will be posting my before and after photos. I love makeovers by the way.

Alyce Kallman   831-320-7329

Jae-In Shin, winner of the 2011 Carmel Music Society Instrumental Competition, will perform at the Sunset Center in Carmel on Friday, May 18, at 8 p.m.

Alexis wants to get off painkillers. Mariette jumps at loud noises. BriGette won’t leave her home. Lashonna does not have one. Sue and Alicia served together and survived an IED explosion. A new documentary, “SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home” by Marcia Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter, follows these women over a two-year period as they struggle to make the transition from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan to civilian life.

In honor of Armed Forces Week, CSU Monterey Bay will hold a free community screening and a question-and-answer session with filmmaker Rock, at 7 p.m., May 22, at the World Theater on the university campus. The Arts Council for Monterey County is co-sponsoring the event.

Women make up 14 percent of today’s military. That number is expected to double in 10 years. SERVICE portrays the courage of these women, the horrific traumas they face, the inadequate care they often receive on return, and the accomplishments – large and small – they work mightily to achieve. Through compelling portraits, the film shows them wrestling with prosthetics, homelessness, post-traumatic stress and its insidious catalyst, military sexual trauma.

The film is also about the resourcefulness of these women, and how they created a supportive network through social media.

MIIS Graduate Students (Richard Hansen, Manuel Martinez, and Cristina Lopez) are holding an event at Indian Summer this Friday at 9pm to raise funds for their trip this summer to film and research water-related issues affecting diverse communities in Nicaragua. Cover charge is $5. Additional details below.

Your classmates in Catalyst Group have been conducting an organizational assessment of the Community Alliance for Safety and Peace (CASP). Please join them for their culminating event as they present their methodology, experiences and findings over light refreshments. Look forward to seeing you there!

When: Friday, May 11th, 9:00am-11:00am (Refreshments at 8:30am)
Where:  McGowan 100
Who: Beryl Levinger’s Advanced Social Change Leadership class

Please join us for the next Center for Ocean Solutions panel discussion event for the Monterey Bay ocean community, on Thursday, May 24, at 4:00pm. See the attached announcement for details. RSVP to esparragoza@stanford.edu.

What: The Future of Water on the Central Coast and What it Means for Monterey Bay

Why: Water is a hot topic around Monterey Bay with numerous social, economic, and environmental concerns. One of the most pressing issues today is how to supply enough water of sufficient quality for our agriculture and urban uses into the future. We are bringing three expert panelists together to talk to you about the status of our local freshwater water supply, about the various management options available to maintain it, and how these different options may impact the coast and ocean. Since the public dialogue has focused on desalination of seawater as a solution to limited freshwater supplies, we will highlight that within the discussion.

Hope to see you there!

Lucie Hazen
Center for Ocean Solutions
ljhazen@stanford.edu

Local, Monterey entrepreneurial internship opportunities: KidLead Inc. is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Monterey, with a global reach and vision.  KidLead provides executive-caliber, active-learning, self-run leadership training curricula for ages 10-18, expanding to ages 2-25.  Its motto is: “If you want to change the world, focus on leaders.  If you want to change leaders, focus on them when they’re young.”  As a young, grassroots entity, KidLead is offering entrepreneurial internship opportunities for 1-6, self-motivated MIIS students.

Although each role is customizable per the interests, strengths, and experiences of the applicants, following is an array of tasks and roles available:

• Design a leadership development program for MIIS students, for their personal and professional growth in organizational leadership skills and to “be the solution,” that can be replicated in undergrad and graduate organizations globally.  The result will be a curriculum/format that is part of the LeadYoung Training Systems programs.  The goal is to launch this in the fall of 2012 at MIIS.

• Provide a business plan for a local, sustainable network of age-n-stage young leader training programs in Monterey County.  This would include:
  • Identifying, marketing and contacting potential host organizations.
  • Identifying and recruiting a pool of Trainers, Koaches & mentors.
  • Identifying and pursuing local private, corporate and foundation funding.

• Be certified to use LeadYoung training curricula and then serve as Trainers for 1-2 area summer camps for 10-13 and 14-18 year olds.  This requires training skills and preferably experience with these age groups.  Approved interns would then be licensed as independent trainers to use this curricular locally and beyond ($800 value).

KidLead Inc. is open to negotiating mutually beneficial internship agreements, varying from 10-40 hours per week.  Minor stipends are available for expenses and the potential for more income is based on revenues generated from the summer camps and donations generated.  The interns will meet with the founder, 2-3 times per week, to strategize, debrief, and gather info.  The founder, Alan E. Nelson, EdD, is a lecturer of management at the Naval Postgraduate School and pioneer in the field of young leader development.

Inquiries should include a cover letter responding to your areas of interest, based on this outline, plus a brief resume/vita.  Send to info@kidlead.com.  For more info, go to www.kidlead.com.  You can contact Alan directly at 831.869.8532.

Monterey County Elections 2012 Poster Contest

“A.I.M. to Vote!” is a project intended to inspire young people to develop an early interest in learning about the voting process in hopes of increasing participation in the future. The project is aimed at first-time and future voters in Monterey County ranging in age from 14-22 and is meant to generate early interest in serving at the polls through the Student Poll Worker program and broadening participation in democracy and voting for those 18 and over.

Entries Due: 5:00pm, Friday, June 8, 2012
Where: Monterey County Elections Department, 1370-B South Main St. Salinas, CA 93901
Contest Packets: www.montereycountyelections.us (includes rules, submission form & promotional posters)
*Note: Please contact Melissa Sesma at (831) 796-1478 or via email at sesmam@co.monterey.ca.us for forms, promotional posters or with questions.

Monterey County Elections wishes all entrants the best of luck and encourages everyone to A.I.M. to Vote!

FACT: There are more individuals in slavery today than at the height of the trans-atlantic slave trade.

Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people around the world, and here in the United States.  Human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world and is the second largest criminal industry in the world today after drug trafficking.

The STOP Club is holding its 2nd Annual Dance for Freedom gala to celebrate freedom and to raise funds to increase awareness and help end modern-day slavery. It will be held in the Holland Center on Friday, May 4th 7-10pm, directly following the last Social Hour of the year. Tickets will be required (each including a raffle entry and 2 cups of wine or beer) and are being sold the week of at the Samson patio. $5 per ticket, $1 per additional raffle ticket. So come dressed to impress and dance the night away!