Vice President's Office - MIIS

Start the Year with Community!

Join us for a casual lunchtime gathering to kick off the new academic year! Connect with students, faculty, and staff, catch up with familiar faces, and meet new friends as we build a strong campus community together.

Bring or buy your lunch—desserts and drinks are on us! Samson Cafe will be offering a 20% discount for purchases made during the event.

RSVP at https://forms.gle/yK1AZbmoBZHLCLxX9

Mr. Binkley is the Command Historian for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey. He first arrived at the Presidio in 2007 after working several years for the National Park Service. Binkley also held research positions at Stanford University and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, MIIS, and the University of Denver.

Seminar for students, lunch will be served for those attending.

Simon is an Export Licensing and Nonproliferation Analyst with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Nonproliferation and Arms Control Team (NPAC). Before NPAC, Simon worked as a Special Security Officer with the LLNL Field Intelligence Element and spent six years with the U.S. Army as an All-Source Intelligence Analyst. Simon holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration degree from CSU Stanislaus. Join us on Friday, April 18, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. to learn more about Simon and the work he does with LLNL!

Come chat with Trauma Program Manager, U.S. Navy veteran, and former combat medic, Colleen Allen about working in security, domestic preparedness, mass casualty response, and trauma system coordination.

The Cyber Collaborative, in partnership with Cyber Security Working Group and Financial Crime Club, is supporting a trip to the RSA Conference College Day in San Francisco on 1 May 2025. This is the largest cybersecurity conference in the world and a great opportunity to learn more about the cybersecurity industry through direct engagement with top-tier professionals. Transportation is provided and entry to the conference for college students and participating staff/faculty is free!

Big Sur: The Way It Was” is the first major documentary made about Big Sur, it’s natural beauty, artistic community, encounter culture ways. It includes interviews with writers, artists, and intellectuals, such as Henry Miller, Eric Barker, Emil White, Harry Dick Ross, and Ephraim Donner as well as hippies, musicians, bikers, hitchhikers, tourists, and your everyday rugged individualist who call Big Sur home. It was filmed and produced by Robert Blaisdell, a native filmmaker of the Monterey Peninsula, who shot the footage of Big Sur and its inhabitants throughout the 1960s.

Join us for an inspiring evening with Alana DeJoseph, the acclaimed director of the Heartland Emmy Award-winning documentary A Towering Task. Alana will delve into the rich legacy of the Peace Corps, highlighting its profound impact on international development. Drawing from her documentary, she will explore the themes of sustainability and the future of global development, especially in light of recent challenges such as the reduction of USAID funding.

Mandatory graduating student information meeting for those planning to graduate in May 2025. Information surrounding commencement will be presented and graduating student speaker nominees will present summaries of their speeches. Join us in person at
Irvine Auditorium or join virtually via Zoom (link will be sent by email to all graduating students a few days prior to meeting).