Tag Archives: International Careers

08.25.08: The IPSS X-perience

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The last few weeks of August are a time when the new student class – originating from locations across the globe – inundates the Monterey Institute campus…

But before this occurs, a veteran group of MIIS students – participants from the six-month, intensive International Professional Service Semester program – come home from far and wide, from Geneva, Vienna, Beijing, New York, and Washington DC. They return to us from prestigious organizations such as The United Nations, World Bank, and World Trade Organization, to share their practiced knowledge. On August 19th and 20th, these students convened in the McGowan Building to discuss the results of their field experiences and research at the 2008 IPSS Capstone Conference and Closing Ceremony: two days of panel presentations entitled “Effecting Change: Proactive Leadership in International Policy!”

For a list of MIIS program participants and their esteemed IPSS positions click here!

For more information about the International Professional Service Semester program -a program which can only be found at the Monterey Institute! – including how to apply for Spring 2010 and who to seek on campus for guidance follow this link.


08.04.08: Summer Business

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So far you’ve learned how the Monterey Institute’s GSIPS and GSLEL students spend their summertime. Now here’s a taste of how FGSIB students remain focused on business as usual despite the summer holidays.    

Clayton Snyder has an internship as a Senior Resource Specialist at Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Inc. Clayton’s responsibilities include analyzing Technicolor’s worldwide energy and water consumption over the last three years; reporting worldwide CO2 emissions over the same time period; publishing bi-weekly reports for upper management on pertinent sustainability issues; and researching LEED certification potential for existing company facilities.

Naomi Arnold has an internship as a Category Management MBA Fellow at TransFair USA in Oakland, California, working in its Fair Trade Certified program. This project intends to diagnose the environmental impact story of Fair Trade, for which the label is lesser known, but equally stringent in initial producer qualifications and continuous improvements. Naomi’s responsibilities include researching environmental impact studies on Fair Trade, the impacts of organic farming, shade-grown coffee and carbon retention on Fair Trade Certified product farms as well as the environmental impacts of conventional crop production of coffee, flowers, sugar and bananas. The project’s goal is to create a gap analysis between Fair Trade and other labeling certifications, conduct an assessment of where improvements can be made to the environmental story, and create materials that communicate this effectively.

Check back in coming weeks for summer stories from MIIS students!!!

07.28.08: Fine-Tuning the Art of Teaching

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Like most Monterey Institute students this summer, those from the
Graduate School of Language and Education Linguistics are out and
about exploring internship and other professional opportunities! To
learn about their experiences – where they are and how they’re
impacting the field of language teaching – read below!

Further enriching the Monterey Institute community, Claire Schadler
(MATESOL/LPA) is Program Coordinator this year for the 6-week Summer
Intensive English Preparation for Translation & Interpretation (EPTI)
program which provides advanced language enhancement courses in
English translation and interpretation for language professionals and
students who have been admitted to the Graduate School of Translation
& Interpretation (GSTI). Jeremy Robinson (MATFL-Spanish) is teaching
two sections of a free, two-week, “mini-course” that he developed
earlier this year in which students with Beginning through
Native-Speaker proficiency levels learn reading, writing, speaking,
and listening skills in Spanish along with important skills in digital
video creation, storytelling, and micropublishing on the internet.

Venturing outside of the cradle of the Monterey Bay area this summer,
Meg MacDonald (MATFL-Chinese) is working as a Residential Advisor in
the Chinese section at the Monterey-Middlebury Language Academy, a
four-week language immersion summer camp for middle and high school
students near Burlington, Vermont. Jarred Brinkman (MATESOL) is
teaching various audiences through collaboration with Middlebury
College’s study abroad center in Chile as an intern at the Instituto
Chileno Norteamericano, the bi-national center in Santiago, Chile.
Half a world away in Hanoi, Vietnam, Natalie Cole (MATESOL) is the
first participant in a trial internship at Oxford English-UK, a
private educational institution in that provides English training to
primarily college students and young professionals. Over a period of 3
to 4 months, she will teach about 25 hours per week of
English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) to Vietnamese learners in Hanoi.

Two MATESOL/LPA candidates are assisting with the Comunidad Autónoma
de Madrid (CAM) teacher-training program being conducted in Madrid,
Spain; Monterey, California; and Burlington, Vermont this summer. In
Madrid, Greer Murphy is working with a group of in-service language
instructors as they enrich their knowledge of language, culture, and
bilingual education while Sylvia Popichak is working in Burlington
with additional educators from Spain’s bilingual programs as they
participate in academically-relevant cultural and social activities.