Category: M2 Integration News

News about the Monterey Institute’s relationship with Middlebury College

Website for Structural Change

In an effort to increase communication, collaboration and transparency, we have created a website to hold all the resources for the structural change and planning process here at MIIS.  The website includes the videos made by the students, the memos to the community, the strategic planning process (including the student group findings in 2006), Monterey Way 2.0, a schedule for upcoming meetings/events, and an FAQ section.

There is also an area for “items to be considered”, which will continue to grow as working groups identify key areas to focus on in the planning process and these areas will be tracked for progress.

This website is a work in progress and can only continue to grow with your help.  Please coordinate any work groups  with Lynn McDonald (lynn.mcdonald@miis.edu or ext. 4633) so she can continue to best represent this process online and keep the communication lines open.

This is an opportunity for real exciting change – let’s keep communication open and work together on this large task for the upcoming year!

http://sites.google.com/site/montereyinstituteorg/

Advancement Announces Reorganization

The Office of Institutional Advancement is pleased to announce some organizational enhancements designed  to build an even more effective division working to support the Institute’s goals.

Tony O’Brian has agreed to take on the position of director of advancement information services.  In this expanded role, he will provide leadership for ongoing business process analysis and other advancement services integration initiatives with Middlebury.  We have all benefited from the great skill and energy he brings to his responsibilities, and we are fortunate that he has agreed to take on this position.

To better reflect the demands of building a robust event program for both advancement and the Institute as a whole, Linae Ishii-Devine’s role will shift from manager of events and advancement services to manager of events and administrative services.  In addition to her leadership in the events area, Linae will partner with Beth McDermott on identifying and implementing continuing education opportunities for the group, the first of which is the guest speaker series at bi-weekly Advancement staff meetings.  Her organization, enterprise, and institutional knowledge have been and will continue to be key components of our success.

Finally, at the end of this month, Leah Gowron and alumni relations will shift their reporting from the provost’s office to institutional advancement.  This move will enable us to more effectively strengthen our ties with alumni and other constituencies as we build broad-based support for the Institute.  We are lucky to have had Leah as one of our closest campus partners, and look forward to all that we will accomplish in the years ahead.

–from the Institutional Advancement Office

MIIS, Bread Loaf Co-sponsor CATESOL Workshop

Patricia Szasz, Director of Intensive English Programs, and Therese Tishakov, GSLEL’s Director of Career Services, have collaborated with Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English to develop a workshop for teachers on “Creative Voices in the Classroom, ” offered on October 11 under the auspices of the Steinbeck chapter of CATESOL (California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Other community partners in this event are the Monterey Peninsula College, Hartnell College, Youth Arts Collective, the Dare to Dream Fund, and the Steinbeck Center. The workshop will be held from 9 am to 1 pm at Hartnell College. Admission is $25 for teachers/$10 for students.

The featured speaker is Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford, and writer-in-residence at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College.

Monterey Institute TESOL/TFL students and faculty will also have a special session with Prof. Lunsford on October 10 at 1 pm, on campus in B105.

Download flyer.

A Whole New Outlook on E-mail

Tired of archiving your messages every few days?  Tired of choking on large attachments? Frustrated with size limitations on mailing lists?  Help has arrived!

All faculty and staff at the Monterey Institute now have accounts on Middlebury’s Exchange e-mail server.  The accounts are one gigabyte each – 20 times the size of the average FirstClass account.  Most staff and many faculty have already begun to use Outlook to access these accounts. (If you’re a Mac user, you’ll need to use Mac mail, Entourage, or the equivalent.) We hope to transition the remaining faculty and staff to their new email accounts as soon as possible, so we can begin the process of converting student accounts.

If you haven’t converted yet, ITS will seek you out, but if you would like to activate your new Exchange email account right away, please contact the ITS Help Desk (x6656) for an appointment.  Please leave your name, phone extension, and office number, plus a time when you would be available for an ITS staff member to visit your office, set up your mail client, and highlight some of its features for you.

– from the Information Technology Services Department