When: Saturday, May 18, 1:00 – 3:00PM
Where: Lawn of Colton Hall, 570 Pacific St Monterey, CA 93940
Come support and celebrate graduates of the spring 2013 semester.
Spring 2013 Commencement
May 13
The Proefessional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) has named GSIPM professor Sandra Dow as a Subject Matter Expert for advisory groups on Enterprise Risk Management and Reputational Risk.
If you missed the presentation on Information Security by Middlebury colleagues Ian Burke and Chris Norris, you can view it here.
One of the best crops of the spring for Monterey Institute students and their many faculty and staff supporters on campus is the thick envelopes announcing awards for fellowships and scholarships that arrive in the mail this time of year. The yield for 2013 was remarkable!
Three Monterey Institute students will be continuing research in their chosen fields on the highly competitive and prestigious Fulbright scholarships:
* Annie Rouse (MAIEP ’13) will work on hemp-related issues in Canada.
* Sam Fielding (MAIEP ’13) will study Chinese and environmental issues in China.
* Tina Rose Novaro (MPA ’11) will be conducting research in the Philippines based on work she started with Team Peru.
MIIS graduate Amanda Sackett (MAIEP ’12) was among thirteen 2013 California Sea Grant Fellows in marine policy and resource management, a very prestigious honor. Amanda will work at the Ocean Protection Council. Each State Fellow receives a stipend of $3,300 per month for up to a year.
Ronald Craft (MANPTS ’13) was awarded a much-sought-after Presidential Management Fellowship, providing two years of employment as part of a highly selective leadership development program for potential government leaders.
Two Monterey Institute students were also awarded Boren Fellowships, providing up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Sarah E. Norris (MANPTS ’14) will be going to Russia and Morgan Tucker (MPA ’14) to Brazil. Two other MIIS students were chosen as alternates: Carmen Paraison (MAIPS ’14) and Kay Park (MANPTS ’13).
Another four MIIS students will receive Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. State Department, providing fully funded summer language institutes for U.S. university students. Gabriella Abrego (MAIPS ’14) and Heather Frank (MAIEM ’14) will study Chinese in China, Shane Mason (MANPTS ’14) will study Urdu in India, and Jennifer Tribble (MANPTS ’14) will be going to Oman to study Arabic.
Master Plan Town Hall Video
May 10
This Town Hall, led by Provost Amy Sands and Executive Director of Finance, Business Services, and Administration Jai Shankar, provides the MIIS community an update on efforts to develop a new Master Plan for the MIIS campus and seek feedback, ideas, and input from members of our community concerning the “MIIS campus of the future.”
As President Ramaswamy said in his email kicking off this initiative: “The development of a Master Plan is a momentous task for the Institute. It will provide the physical parameters within which we shape our future, and thus must reflect our vision of what we want to become as a graduate professional school offering globally focused education and training radiating from an iconic central presence in Monterey.”
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), will deliver the keynote address May 10 for the Monterey Institute’s third annual Human Rights Fair, sponsored by the Amnesty International Club on campus.
Jealous is the 17th president of the NAACP, and upon his appointment at age 35 in 2008, became the youngest person to lead the 104-year-old organization. In recent years he has led successful efforts to build the NAACP's online presence and voter registration capacity, and opened national programs on education, health, and environmental justice. A Rhodes Scholar, he is a graduate of Columbia and Oxford University, the past president of the Rosenberg Foundation, and was the founding director of Amnesty International's U.S. Human Rights Program.
Jealous was invited to speak at the Institute by Professor Jan Black, whose lifelong work on human rights led to her being elected to the board of directors of Amnesty International USA in 2011.
The May 10 event begins at 7:30 p.m., in the Irvine Auditorium at 499 Pierce Street, and is free and open to the public. The keynote address will be followed by a reception with live entertainment.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), will deliver the keynote address May 10 for the Monterey Institute’s third annual Human Rights Fair, sponsored by the Amnesty International Club on campus.
Jealous is the 17th president of the NAACP, and upon his appointment at age 35 in 2008, became the youngest person to lead the 104-year-old organization. In recent years he has led successful efforts to build the NAACP's online presence and voter registration capacity, and opened national programs on education, health, and environmental justice. A Rhodes Scholar, he is a graduate of Columbia and Oxford University, the past president of the Rosenberg Foundation, and was the founding director of Amnesty International's U.S. Human Rights Program.
Jealous was invited to speak at the Institute by Professor Jan Black, whose lifelong work on human rights led to her being elected to the board of directors of Amnesty International USA in 2011.
The May 10 event begins at 7:30 p.m., in the Irvine Auditorium at 499 Pierce Street, and is free and open to the public. The keynote address will be followed by a reception with live entertainment.
Congratulations are in order for the 40-year old Intensive English as a Second Language Program at the Monterey Institute after it recently received formal accreditation through the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA). “It gives us an objective basis not just to believe, but to know that we have a top-notch program,” says assistant director Katie Dutcher. “Personally, it feels amazing to have played a part in taking this next step in the 40-year history of the program.”
The meticulous accreditation process took close to two years and involved examination of all aspects of the program, from activities and services available to students, to finances and staff qualifications, Katie shares. “Of course, as we went through this process of self-assessment, we identified areas of strengths and weakness and worked to improve the program in significant ways.” The full-time instructors, Jennifer Grode and Adrienne Stacy, led an overhaul of the curriculum and assessment, and Katie says they also worked on improving administrative procedures and documentation.
A review team representing CEA visited in February after all self-assessment documents had been submitted. The review team interviewed numerous people on campus and submitted their own report that was reviewed by the commission at their meeting in April. On May 1, the decision to formally accredit the program was announced. The effects of the strenuous, reflective and developmental process have been very positive according to Katie, who says that, regardless of the accreditation decision, she is prouder than ever to be a part of this team because of the significant improvements they have made in a short period of time.
Longtime Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages professor Kathi Bailey knows the CEA accreditation process well as the former president of the International TESOL Organization: “It has incredibly high standards and a rigorous review program staffed by well-recognized professionals in English language education. For the MIIS Intensive English Program to have been accredited is both a great honor and a testament to the hard work, creativity, and organization of the ESL teachers and administrators.”
Stephen Stec, adjunct professor in GSIPM, was selected to participate in the Workshop on ‘Rights in Environmental Governance: Explaining their Emergence, Examining their Effectiveness’ held at Yale University on April 26th and 27th, 2013, by the Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale (GEM), the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP), and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Stephen is working on a Guide to the UNEP Bali Guidelines on Rio Principle 10 and one of the outcomes of the workshop was an agreement to link his work as an input to the work of John Knox, UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment, who will submit a report to the UN in 2015.
In addition, for those interested in Rio Principle 10 issues, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has recently announced the online posting of the text-only final version of “The Aarhus Convention: An Implementation Guide” (2d ed.). The print version will include a Foreword by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Stephen Stecis the only co-author of both the first and second editions. The first edition of the Guide, published in 2000, has been cited as authority in the courts of a number of Aarhus Convention states parties, and by the European Court of Justice. The Guide is available online.
The following Monterey Institute of International Studies students have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study critical needs languages during the summer of 2013:
Gabriella Abrego (Chinese)
Heather Frank (Chinese)
Shane Mason (Urdu)
Jennifer Tribble (Arabic)
These students are among the approximately 610 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students (elected from 5000 applicants) who received a scholarship to spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in one of 13 countries to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu.