As Saturday’s graduation ceremony swiftly approaches, the eMIISsaries Steering Committee extends our congratulations to 2013 graduates. Nearly 300 students representing 31 different countries will be awarded degrees in Translation and Interpretation, Public Administration, Language Teaching, International Business Administration, International Policy Studies, and International Education Management. Graduates will go on to work at home and abroad on some of the most urgent social and environmental issues of our time. From pioneering coastal management strategies in the Pacific to transforming education in Afghanistan, MIIS students across the globe are embracing the challenge to Be the Solution.

The Institute welcomes Dr. Clara Yu as this year’s commencement speaker. Dr. Yu served as the 12th president of the Monterey Institute, and was instrumental in facilitating MIIS’s merge with Middlebury. She also founded the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, a non-profit that pioneers the use of technology for teaching, learning, research, and information management. She currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Dr. Yu’s selflessness, hard work, and devotion to MIIS’s students and mission has won the respect of the Institute at home, as well as the admiration the Middlebury community, her alma mater.