Professor Tsuneo Akaha has been elected to serve on the Board of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), a regional affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies for another two-year term, beginning in June 2009. Jeet Sapkota, a Waseda University student from Nepal, whom Professor Akaha advised while in Tokyo last year, won the best graduate student paper at this year’s ASPAC annual convention.
Month: July 2009
Running-One-MIIS: Technology
Find slides from today’s Running-One-MIIS presentation here.
A few more Fulbright hosts needed– share a meal with an international visitor!
Intensive English Programs is hosting a three-week Pre-academic Program for Fulbright students this summer from July 20th-August 7th. These students come from all over the world and will be pursuing Master’s degrees and PhD’s in fields as diverse as engineering, veterinary medicine, music, and political science. One of the activities the students participate in is a host family dinner. We are looking for families who would like to welcome 3 or 4 Fulbright students into their home and serve them dinner on the evenings of July 27th or August 3rd. The homestay dinner is a wonderful opportunity for the Fulbrighters to learn more about American culture, and for your family to meet and develop bonds with people from around the world. A small stipend is available for the families that participate. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact the Fulbright Pre-academic Program Coordinator, Kate Braun, at english@miis.edu.
M-squared HR offices share new applicant tracking system
We are pleased to announce the selection of a new applicant tracking system (ATS) to be hosted by Greentree Systems, Inc., a California-based software company that’s been in existence since 1983. After recently undertaking a thorough analysis of available ATS products with our HR counterparts at Middlebury College, we have elected to replace our existing ATS with an automated recruitment tool that can effectively support the employment functions at both institutions. The characteristic that distinguishes the Greentree product from the others we reviewed is its straightforward ability to support multiple hiring processes on each campus without requiring either school to conform to a shared set of internal process requirements. Instead, the new system will provide both institutions with improved functionality and greater customization while allowing each to maintain its own distinct brand, requisition/posting processes, and recruitment forms. By pooling resources to purchase this new software, both campuses will be able to obtain an enhanced recruitment system that we believe will better sustain the ongoing recruitment needs of both institutions for some time to come — and at a more affordable price!
If you participate in the hiring process, stay tuned for more information about the timeline for rolling out the new system, and training for hiring managers.
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION WORKSHOP IN BRASILIA, BRAZIL
Among the non-degree program offered by GSTILE this summer is a three-day simultaneous interpreting workshop in Portuguese/English and Portuguese/Spanish. The instructor, Professor Ewandro Magalhães in Brasilia, Brazil, is a native of Brazil and a seasoned conference interpreter, translator, trainer and author. He has logged over 1,100 days of conferences in Brazil, Africa, and the United States. He is a contractor with the U.S. Department of State, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Defense Board and College. He served as personal interpreter to the Speaker of the House and Vice-President in Brazil and has accompanied several heads of State and Government during their official visits. He holds a Master of Arts in Conference Interpretation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.