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Monday, May 4th, 2015

Mark Your Calendars: East Asia Presentations this Thursday!

Presentations at Irvine Auditorium this Thursday, May 7th, 6:30-8:30pm, Reception 8:30-9:30pm! The students that went on the first ever two-country program through MIIS Immersive Learning Programs, the East Asia: China and Japan trip, will be presenting this Thursday at Irvine, with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception to follow. The presentations will be very interesting as this […]

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Immersive Learners Champion Seven Countries through Nine Programs

I sat down with Maritza Munzón (MPA/IEM ’15), and Rafael Hernandez (MPA ’15) at a local coffee shop last week to interview them about MIIS’s Immersive Learning Programs. Maritza has traveled on five trips to six countries through MIIS (Peru, Cuba, Kenya, Mindanao, and East Asia), and Rafael has gone to four (Peru, Cuba, Rwanda, […]

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

News about the East Asia Spring Break Journey!

    News from the participants and professors was posted on the miis.edu front page.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

What are you doing this summer?

We’ve got a new page to help you answer that question: go.miis.edu/summer

Monday, February 23rd, 2015

New Internship Opportunity in Uganda!

Looking for a summer internship opportunity in Africa? Check out ISLA – and feel free to join tomorrow’s info session from 12pm-1pm in Morse B206! http://www.isla-serve.org/ *MPAs – this could count for DPMI Plus!

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

Upcoming Info Sessions for IPSS, DPMI, and Tunisia

IPSS 2016 http://www.miis.edu/academics/monterey-abroad/service-semester Info Session: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12-1pm @MG100 Application Deadline: September 1st, 2015   DPMI, DPMI + http://www.miis.edu/academics/short/development-management Info Session: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015, 12-1pm @CF452 Application Deadline: Summer 2015: Early Review – March 1st, 2015; General Application Deadline – April 1st, 2015 Winter 2016: Early Review – September 1st, 2015; General Application Deadline – […]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

J-term for MIIS Students, Off and On Campus

For J-term 2015, we had 70 students go to five countries on four continents. Sonia Esquibel, who was on the Peru Practicum on small-scale farming, sent me the wonderful photo of Team Peru (to the right). She wrote the following about her journey, “I have really enjoyed working with students from MIIS, MIDD, AASD, and Professor […]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale

Dear Colleagues,   You and your students and colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the upcoming 12th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on March 28-29, 2015. We are also currently accepting social enterprise abstracts for presentation, as well as applications for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. Global Health & […]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Remember the great IEP video from Follies?

Here it is: Anything Is Possible When You Conserve Water *by Stephanie Gentle

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education

When: March 2-4, 2015 Where: San Francisco What: The Second Annual Summit on Improvement in Education Who:  attendees come from across all aspects of the education field, from kindergarten to higher ed, practitioners to policymakers, funders to researchers. For more information: http://carnegiefoundationsummit.org/program/about/ Questions? Contact 877-842-3110 or summitreg@carnegiefoundation.org  

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

1500 USD Sarah Meek Africa Travel Awards for MIIS Students

**MIIS students completing research in Africa in 2015 are encouraged to apply! ***Research could be completed as part of an internship or job as well as for-credit or not-for-credit.   Announcing the Sarah Meek Travel Grant for Research in Africa Starting this January, four travel grants of $1500 each will be awarded for MIIS students […]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Upcoming Deadlines for Summer Internship Opportunities in Spain, Argentina and Chile

Cultural Vistas is accepting applications for the Summer Internship Program in Spain and the Internship Programs in Argentina and Chile.   The application deadline for all three programs will be January 15, 2015.   Summer Internship Program in Spain This program provides an opportunity for U.S. and Canadian students to gain international work experience, improve Spanish […]

Friday, January 9th, 2015

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Monday, November 24th, 2014

Interview with Professor Akaha about the East Asia Spring Break Trip!

  Professor Tsuneo Akaha was born and raised in Japan,and has been at MIIS since 1989 (and is about to celebrate 25 years here!) Since then, he has been travelling back and forth over the Pacific, doing research, guest lectures, and of course, visiting family. This trip, the first of its kind, and done in partnership […]