Last week, MIIS welcomed 82 new students for the spring semester. The Middlebury Institute is well-known for its Commencement flag ceremony, where the flags of the homelands of graduating seniors are carried at the head of the procession of faculty and graduates. MIIS has now inaugurated a new tradition: an opening convocation at which the…Continue Reading New Student Welcome Breakfast
MIIS faculty and staff collected over 1000 pounds of food to share with Monterey County farmworker families who, ironically, often go hungry while laboring in the nation’s salad bowl. The Institute exceeded its initial goal and are off and running on the next challenge: shopping for gifts for 100 of our neighbors – families and…Continue Reading MIIS Faculty and Staff Exceed Food Drive Goal
On December 5, the Institute Community paid tribute to MBA Professor Fredric Kropp, who retires at the end of this year. Family and friends joined in celebrating his 17 years at the Institute, where he taught courses in marketing and entrepreneurship. After a Fulbright in Ireland this coming spring, Fredric will be back in Monterey,…Continue Reading Professor Kropp retires
A team of Middlebury Institute MBA students will be travelling to the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2017 as finalists in the Corporate Knights Business for a Better World case competition. The team — Ben Grimmig, Nick Fisher, Christina Lukeman, and Shannon Nolan, coached by professors Yuwei Shi and Sandra Dow — faced…Continue Reading MBA students headed for Davos
Translation and localization management is a rapidly growing segment of a language services industry that is expanding to meet the needs of a globalizing economy. Needs within the industry are becoming more specialized, requiring some employees to have high level language translation skills, while others focus most of their work on technology or project management….Continue Reading Institute Launches Expanded Translation and Localization Management Curriculum
The Middlebury Institute Board of Overseers met in the Monterey campus on November 14 and 15. In addition to their regular business meetings, Overseers were able to sample several varieties of immersion that characterize learning at MIIS. Interpretation students shared their experiences interpreting for the Olympics, while another T&I group talked about interpreting for their…Continue Reading Institute Board of Overseers Meets
On November 16, VPAA Jeff Dayton Johnson hosted a Town Hall meeting for faculty and staff to report on highlights of the fall semester, and to engage attendees in a discussion of a draft mission statement for the Institute. Earlier in the Fall, members of the community were invited to contribute ideas for a new,…Continue Reading Institute Holds Town Hall Meeting
The Staff Advisory Team (SAT) at MIIS kicked of a month of giving at its November staff breakfast on the 15th, with staff bringing contributions toward this year’s food drive goal of 100 pounds in 10 days. Coming up in December, SAT will sponsor a Giving Tree to share the holiday spirit with local families…Continue Reading A Month of Giving
Several recent events on the Institute campus touched on the theme of inclusion—an important value across Middlebury programs: Allies at MIIS, a student group dedicated to understanding racism and privilege and promoting a more racially equitable campus, have hosted two sessions of their discussion series “disMIISing prejudice,” on September 13 and October 25. They will…Continue Reading Toward an Inclusive Middlebury…