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Jan 15
AACSB Accreditation News
Dec 19
Here is some good news, just in time for the holidays: In October, Middlebury president Ron Liebowitz submitted a substantive change request to AACSB. This request described the planned academic reorganization at MIIS in the context of integration with Middlebury. This week, we received notification from AACSB that that our re-accreditation process can continue as originally scheduled:
“Your letter and supporting materials dated 30 October 2008 were reviewed by the AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation Committee at its meeting on 8 December 2008. On behalf of the committee, we appreciate the thoroughness of the report on the integration of the Monterey Institute of International Studies into Middlebury College. At this time, MAC does not see the need to change any of our plans regarding the next review of the business programs at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.”
This means that our next re-accreditation visit will occur in 2011.
Just as we have done at the Monterey Institute, Middlebury College has communicated to members of its community the economic context in which it is operating in these challenging times. The remarks and powerpoint presentations delivered by President Ron Liebowitz and CFO Patrick Norton are available on the Middlebury web site.
Website Changes
Nov 10
Our website is the main source of information on our programs for prospective students. Recruitment for these new students starts earlier and earlier each year. Considering that our new students in Fall 2009 will be attending MIIS under a new administrative structure, it is important that our website best represent both our current programs and the future changes. Beginning immediately, we will replace references to specific schools and their acronyms with program references and institute references where applicable. In most situations, this is an improvement to our site, since prospective students rarely understand our alphabet soup.
The website will retain its structure and the content will remain the same, we’re just changing some titles. This is quick fix to a website that is in need of facelift. A more extensive re-design is currently planned to take place during the spring and summer of 2009.
We need your help! If you are adding content to the website, please refrain from specific school references. When updating documents or PDF’s on the website, please scan the pages for graduate school names and make changes where appropriate.
If you have any questions, please contact Lynn McDonald or Jill Stoffers.
Monterey Institute faculty, staff, and students are all invited to join President Designate Sunder Ramaswamy for an initial discussion about the MIIS reorganization planning process on Thursday, November 13, 2008.
The agenda of the meeting will be to share guiding principles, expected outcomes, and indicative timeline with the MIIS community, including how the community will be able to participate in and contribute to the reorganization efforts going forward. In addition, there will be a brief update provided on the current integration progress with Middlebury.
To enable more interactive, focused discussions, Dr. Ramaswamy will hold four one-hour meetings with faculty, staff, and students, one for each school. Administrative staff may join any of the four meetings of their choosing. If faculty, staff, and students cannot attend their school’s session for any reason, they are welcome to attend another school’s session. Please find the meeting schedule below:
Meeting Schedule
Thursday, November 13
12:00PM GSTI Irvine Auditorium
1:00PM FGSIB Irvine Auditorium
2:00PM GSIPS Irvine Auditorium
4:00PM GSLEL Irvine Auditorium
We look forward to your attendance and contributions as we begin this exciting process in achieving an even stronger, better institution for our future global leaders.
In an effort to increase communication, collaboration and transparency, we have created a website to hold all the resources for the structural change and planning process here at MIIS. The website includes the videos made by the students, the memos to the community, the strategic planning process (including the student group findings in 2006), Monterey Way 2.0, a schedule for upcoming meetings/events, and an FAQ section.
There is also an area for “items to be considered”, which will continue to grow as working groups identify key areas to focus on in the planning process and these areas will be tracked for progress.
This website is a work in progress and can only continue to grow with your help. Please coordinate any work groups with Lynn McDonald (lynn.mcdonald@miis.edu or ext. 4633) so she can continue to best represent this process online and keep the communication lines open.
This is an opportunity for real exciting change – let’s keep communication open and work together on this large task for the upcoming year!
The Office of Institutional Advancement is pleased to announce some organizational enhancements designed to build an even more effective division working to support the Institute’s goals.
Tony O’Brian has agreed to take on the position of director of advancement information services. In this expanded role, he will provide leadership for ongoing business process analysis and other advancement services integration initiatives with Middlebury. We have all benefited from the great skill and energy he brings to his responsibilities, and we are fortunate that he has agreed to take on this position.
To better reflect the demands of building a robust event program for both advancement and the Institute as a whole, Linae Ishii-Devine’s role will shift from manager of events and advancement services to manager of events and administrative services. In addition to her leadership in the events area, Linae will partner with Beth McDermott on identifying and implementing continuing education opportunities for the group, the first of which is the guest speaker series at bi-weekly Advancement staff meetings. Her organization, enterprise, and institutional knowledge have been and will continue to be key components of our success.
Finally, at the end of this month, Leah Gowron and alumni relations will shift their reporting from the provost’s office to institutional advancement. This move will enable us to more effectively strengthen our ties with alumni and other constituencies as we build broad-based support for the Institute. We are lucky to have had Leah as one of our closest campus partners, and look forward to all that we will accomplish in the years ahead.
–from the Institutional Advancement Office
Patricia Szasz, Director of Intensive English Programs, and Therese Tishakov, GSLEL’s Director of Career Services, have collaborated with Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English to develop a workshop for teachers on “Creative Voices in the Classroom, ” offered on October 11 under the auspices of the Steinbeck chapter of CATESOL (California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
Other community partners in this event are the Monterey Peninsula College, Hartnell College, Youth Arts Collective, the Dare to Dream Fund, and the Steinbeck Center. The workshop will be held from 9 am to 1 pm at Hartnell College. Admission is $25 for teachers/$10 for students.
The featured speaker is Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford, and writer-in-residence at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College.
Monterey Institute TESOL/TFL students and faculty will also have a special session with Prof. Lunsford on October 10 at 1 pm, on campus in B105.
Tired of archiving your messages every few days? Tired of choking on large attachments? Frustrated with size limitations on mailing lists? Help has arrived!
All faculty and staff at the Monterey Institute now have accounts on Middlebury’s Exchange e-mail server. The accounts are one gigabyte each – 20 times the size of the average FirstClass account. Most staff and many faculty have already begun to use Outlook to access these accounts. (If you’re a Mac user, you’ll need to use Mac mail, Entourage, or the equivalent.) We hope to transition the remaining faculty and staff to their new email accounts as soon as possible, so we can begin the process of converting student accounts.
If you haven’t converted yet, ITS will seek you out, but if you would like to activate your new Exchange email account right away, please contact the ITS Help Desk (x6656) for an appointment. Please leave your name, phone extension, and office number, plus a time when you would be available for an ITS staff member to visit your office, set up your mail client, and highlight some of its features for you.
– from the Information Technology Services Department