Running One MIIS: Admissions

One June 16, Jill Stoffers provided a great overview of the impact of Reorganization and Integration on Recruiting, Admissions and Student Financial Planning.  This led to an excellent discussion, including an idea offered by Bob Cole that MIIS faculty and staff could develop a process for identifying affinities between individual members of the MIIS community and prospective students in order to encourage matriculation.  Interested?  Stay tuned.

Download Jill’s slides.

Next up:  Accreditation (June 30, 12-1:30, Board Room) – Toni Thomas and Amy McGill

Get Involved: Summer Campus Visit Day!

The Monterey Institute will host a summer campus visit day for prospective students on July 17th. To cap off this day, the Recruiting Department will be hosting a wine and cheese reception at Samson from 4-5pm, to provide visitors with an opportunity to mingle with our staff/faculty and to ask questions in a less formal setting. We would like to invite any staff and faculty available on visit day to feel free to attend the wine and cheese event and mingle with prospective students. This is a great opportunity to connect one-to-one with students, some of whom are deciding NOW whether to attend MIIS this fall. A strong class in September is important to all of us, so please support this effort!

As part of this reception, we also thought it would be nice to provide information tables/stations that can provide students a way to learn more about other opportunities on our campus that they might not otherwise know about. For example, the students might like to learn about DPMI, TLC/DMC, Team Monterey, GLOBE, CNS, CLS, the pizza process, student affairs, financial aid, and many others…

If your department or program would like a more structured venue for reaching out to these campus visitors and would like us to reserve a table for you, please be sure to contact Caroline Mansi in the Recruiting Department to coordinate.

If these additions to Visit Day are successful/well received, we might make this a regular part of our program.

MIIS is Featured on Americorps Web site

Americorps has recently confirmed with the MIIS Recruiting Department that the Monterey Institute will now be featured on their web site and listed as one of a few colleges and universities across the US that match the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award for Americorps students. The Monterey Institute will be one of only four California colleges/universities featured on this listing. Alice Villemaire, Administrative Assistant in the Recruiting Department, spearheaded this effort; and we anticipate this new exposure on the Americorps will generate new interest in our programs among prospective students.