The Peace Corps Club presents the:
2010 International Calendar!
Now available for only $10.00
Visit us in the Samson Center Courtyard 12PM – 2PM, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for the next two weeks: Oct 20th – 30th or contact Bill Reinecke at wreinecke@exchange.miis.edu
The calendar will showcase and celebrate the experiences, diversity and cultures present at the Institute and will be available for purchase this holiday season.
* Open to all members of the MIIS community (Students, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni)
* There are no specific scenes or categories required for this photo contest. Please consider submitting images that reveal the culture, people, scenery, traditions and/or unique aspects, capturing the essence of a place you have visited or live.
* All photos must be submitted digitally on a CD or DVD, no exceptions. (If your photo was taken with a film camera, please scan it and submit it as a digital file)
* Digital photos must be at least 300 dpi (1 MB or more in size)
* Color and Black and white photos will be accepted.
* You can submit a maximum of three photos per person.
* When you submit your photos you must include:
Your Full Name
If you are a Student, Faculty, Staff, Alumni
Email Address
Phone Number
Title of photo (for each photo)
Location (for each photo)
Caption for photo (for each photo)
* You must also submit a signed release waiver for the photos. (Please see attached file)
* Deadline for all submissions is Friday, October 9, by 5:00 pm. (No Exceptions)
* The top 12 photographs will be used in the calendar
* Photographs will be judged by the Monterey Institute Community in an online voting process during the week of 10/12/09-10/16/09. Winners will receive a free calendar.
* The twelve photographs chosen for the calendar publication become property of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Photographs will be viewed online via a password protected website. By submitting your photograph(s) you are authorizing that they can be uploaded to a third party site for viewing and voting.
* Only one photo from each photographer will be eligible to win a place in the calendar. If more than one photograph from a single photographer wins, the photograph that received the most votes will be the winning photograph for that photograph. The subsequent places will be awarded to the photographs from other photographers with the next highest vote count.
Submit your photos to Gail Lu, Coordinator of Student Services, in the Student Affairs building. If needed, you can also send your photo CD by mail to Gail Lu, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 460 Pierce Street, Monterey, CA 93940.
If you have any questions, please call 831.647.3586 or email gail.lu@miis.edu.
We will continue to hold the Annual International Bazaar Photo Contest in the spring.
Faculty and staff, please share this information about the Writing Center with your students:
Make your appointment for the Graduate Writing Center beginning Monday, September 21st, and visit us on the web . From blank sheet of paper to polished copy, the Graduate Writing Center loves to help bring beautiful words into the world. Do you have punctuation problems? Development dilemmas? Writer’s block? Grammar headaches? Word choice worries? Never fear! The Graduate Writing Center is here! You can find us on the west wing of the Simoneau house at 456 Van Buren Street. We offer one-hour appointments (limited to one per student per week), but if there is an open slot that no one is using, you can just drop in! The grand opening for the fall 2009 semester will occur on September 28th, but you can begin making appointments on September 21st using the sign up sheet outside the GWC. The writing center will be open from 2-8 Monday through Thursday and from 10-4 on Fridays. Spanish Tutoring is offered Monday and Tuesday from 2-3. Chinese tutoring is offered Monday and Thursday from 7-8. Arabic is available Monday 6-7, Thursday 4-7, and Friday 2-4. We look forward to another great semester working with you!
If you encounter students seeking information about TOEFL iBT, please share the following with them:
The Internet-based TOEFL (iBT) is administered monthly here on the Monterey Institute campus in our Pacific Lab (CF442). Administration dates for Fall 2009 are September 19, October 24 and November 21. The test begins at 9:30 am, and the cost is $170. All test takers register online at the ETS website: http://www.ets.org/toefl. Please note that we no longer process registrations on campus. Likewise, TOEFL score reporting is also done online. Due to the high demand for TOEFL iBT, we encourage test takers to register early. For further information, email english@miis.edu.
There have been many changes on campus this summer and Kade is no exception. In the beginning of the summer, IT moved the printer, scanner and PC computers out of Kade. Student printing is available in three locations: Pacific Lab (CF 442), Coleman library and Lab & Media Services (Morse A 101).
Kade hours will be posted at the beginning of the semester.
Kade is the exclusive hub for the Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC). Staff who are a part of the TLC are:
Activities of the TLC staff:
We love visitors to Kade who are interested in exploring, learning and sharing.
There is a new location for the MIIS classifieds forums with increased functionality. The MIIS classifieds is now located on the elearning (moodle) site. When you arrive at the elearning homepage, you’ll find a direct link to classifieds located under “community”. There are four categories of items, please choose your category and add a new discussion topic to sell your wares. 
Improved:
New students will log into the elearning site with their exchange login and password.
For more information on how to use classifieds, please view this short instructional video.
The Student Affairs Office is compiling a list of Institute faculty, staff, and students willing to provide temporary “emergency” housing to incoming Fall 2009 students while they search for permanent housing. While we advise incoming students to plan on spending their first 3 to 5 nights in a hotel, there are students who take longer to secure housing and will begin to feel a financial strain.
The greatest need will probably be from Monday, August 17th through Friday September 4th. In years past, a rate of $10 to $20 per night has been typical, depending on the type of accommodations offered to the new student. If you are going to be in the area in August/September and are willing to spare a bed, a couch, or even the floor and some blankets, please email student.affairs@miis.edu with the following information:
Your Name:
Phone Number (or the best way to reach you):
Email (if other than “miis.edu” account):
Dates Able to Provide Temporary Housing:
Accommodations Provided:
Rate Per Night:
PLEASE NOTE: Emergency Housing is not typically arranged in advance. Often a student “in need” will come to Student Affairs requesting “same day” emergency accommodations. For that reason, it is important that you are willing to be flexible and that you are living in the area in August/September. Emergency Housing is not a form of a “sublet,” as you will need to be available to provide the student access to your home.
The Teaching & Learning Collaborative in coordination with the Digital Media Commons at the Monterey Institute is training an army of podcasters. The one unit, fifteen hour workshop titled Digital Media for Change meets Friday afternoons from 2-4pm. Participants are exploring new communication skills with digital media with a particular focus on affecting change. We’re reading and discussing the workshop text by Garr Reynolds, PresentationZen, and we have gathered online on a homegrown social network hosted by Ning: http://dm4change.ning.com. Participants will be helping the Institute build our capacity to capture campus events, speakers, and other stories that distinguish our community and reflect our mission. We’re building an army of graduate students, staff, and faculty to help us! And yes, we like cupcakes.
As the workshop coordinator I am using this as an opportunity to experiment with alternative course management tools and blogging. We welcome any and all who might be interested in what we are up to, so please feel free to join us on our Ning, or grab the RSS feed for the DM4change blog that is being piped into the main page for workshop updates and thoughts from yours truly.
Check out the Monterey Herald for an article about MIIS MPA students Bree Bacon and Lorraine Githiora, who have been selected to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University at the University of Texas, February 13-15. They will present their proposal to establish an electronic network of human rights organizations in Monterey County.
New spring students are arriving on campus in time for orientation, which runs from January 27-30. We are expecting 65-70 new enrollees across the four schools. Please take a few extra minutes to welcome them and offer assistance to students looking a bit lost.
The Office of Student Services, in conjunction with Peter Shaw and other student and staff facilitators, will host an International Education Day on Friday, November 21st. Our mission is to celebrate the benefits of international education and foster interest in international education in the younger generation. We will do this by introducing and exposing a group of 60 local high school students to the international environment that makes up the Monterey Institute community’s daily lives and by sharing insights of the international experience. We plan to have a fun-filled morning of interactive activities exclusively for these high school students.
If you haven’t seen the “reborn” Foghorn student newsblog, it’s worth a look. In fact, it’s worth an RSS subscription! Recent post include:
* A “spotlight” piece on Sunder Ramaswamy, in which he talks candidly about his vision for the Institute
* An open letter to faculty from the “Queers and Peers” group. This article reminds faculty to consider the potential discomfort created by assignments that ask students to share romantic or other personal stories, and suggests culturally sensitive alternatives.
* Interviews with, students, staff, and president Clara Yu on the MIIS reorganization plan.
New Student Orientation was a great success. We revamped the NSO week to include two new sessions focusing on community building, planned and delivered by students Bree Bacon and Wrenn Yennie, faculty member Peter Shaw, and several dozen highly competent student, faculty and staff facilitators.
The new students were organized into groups selected to ensure diversity of program, homeland and language. One group activity involved expressing a common identity through the creation of group logos. Students also participated in a treasure hunt that helped to familiarize them with the campus and its people and services.
The feedback from new students, facilitators and the MIIS community has been quite positive. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!
–from the Student Services Office