Outside Organizations- MIIS

Join us Friday Sep 2, 11:00 on Colton Lawn for a fun game time (across Jefferson Street from MIIS).

It’s all about meeting other new & returning international students — tell your friends!

We’ll play fun lawn-games, then slow down, have lunch, and talk about opportunities here in Monterey as International MIIS students.
If you joined us for the first game day (8/26) come back with new international friends met during your orientation.

Bring water & lunch. Masks are optional. Distancing is recommended.

For all International Students & Scholars – from every culture & background – a unique opportunity for creating cross-cultural friendships and building bridges that contribute to making the world a better place.

Practice English & learn new vocab. Share cross-cultural foods (potluck style); join in fun competitive team games; discuss lively topics as a way to learn more about each other personally, culturally and professionally.

For all International Students & Scholars – from every culture & background – a unique opportunity for creating cross-cultural friendships and building bridges that contribute to making the world a better place.

Practice English & learn new vocab. Share cross-cultural foods (potluck style); join in fun competitive team games; discuss lively topics as a way to learn more about each other personally, culturally and professionally.

For all International Students & Scholars – from every culture & background – a unique opportunity for creating cross-cultural friendships and building bridges that contribute to making the world a better place.

Practice English & learn new vocab. Share cross-cultural foods (potluck style); join in fun competitive team games; discuss lively topics as a way to learn more about each other personally, culturally and professionally.

For all International Students & Scholars – from every culture & background – a unique opportunity for creating cross-cultural friendships and building bridges that contribute to making the world a better place.

Practice English & learn new vocab. Share cross-cultural foods (potluck style); join in fun competitive team games; discuss lively topics as a way to learn more about each other personally, culturally and professionally.

Join us Friday Aug 26, 11:00 on Colton Lawn for a fun game time. It’s all about meeting other new & returning international students — tell your friends!

We’ll play active lawn-games and then slow down, have lunch, and talk about opportunities here in Monterey as MIIS students.  

Bring water & lunch. Masks are optional. Distancing is recommended.

The Junior League of Monterey County is holding a resume workshop on MIIS campus. Mary Jeanne Vincent is a Career Expert and Strategist. Her expertise enables clients to cut through the career noise and achieve their goals. She also writes Career Talk, a bi-weekly print and online column highlighting the latest career strategies, employment trends and notable business professionals.

Monterey Bay Community Power is a regional project among local government agencies that aims to provide electricity to residents and businesses throughout Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties through the new Community Choice Energy (CCE) model. CCE enables communities to choose clean-source power at a cost equivalent to PG&E, while retaining PG&E’s role in maintaining power lines and providing customer service. The CCE model helps ensure local economic vitality because money from rates paid by local customers stays local.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Califnornia State University, Monterey Bay, presents Understanding ISIS. The Islamic State, or ISIS, has been responsible for some of the most atrocious war crimes and human rights abuses of this century. But what exactly is ISIS? How did it emerge? What are its goals and what kind of threat does it pose to the United States? This talk will answer these and other questions, with a focus on how the United States should counter terrorist movements like this today and in the future. Admission for the general public is $10.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Califnornia State University, Monterey Bay, presents The View from Putin’s Russia. A quarter century has passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but what has emerged from the shadows of this totalitarian regime? Russian scholar Anna Vassilieva will enlighten us on the current state of Russia as she explores numerous topics including the realities and aspirations of Russian youth, Putin’s influence on the nation, commonalities and differences between Russians and the American people, and the prognosis for bilateral relations.