2019: Looking Back on the Year in Five Stories
As 2019 draws to a close, we continue the Middlebury Institute tradition of taking stock and highlighting the five stories that helped shape the Institute experience over the year. As always, narrowing the selection to only a handful was very challenging for there is no shortage of interesting stories to tell or accomplishments to celebrate. What all the stories of 2019 have in common is a promise of even greater things to come.
Institute MA TESOL Program Receives U.S. State Department Award
The U.S. Department of State recognized the Middlebury Institute of International Studies with the English Language Fellow Top Producing Institution Award on the 50th Anniversary of the Program.
Middlebury Institute Launches First Fully Online MA Degree
The Middlebury Institute is now accepting applications for its first graduate degree offered completely online; an advanced-entry option of the MA in Translation and Localization Management.
“Dive in and Lead Right Now” Commencement Speaker Ben Jealous Urges Graduates
Human Rights Activist Ben Jealous encouraged the 269 graduating students at Spring Commencement not to wait to start their job of being “builders of a better future.”
Alumna Temie Giwa-Tubosun Wins African Business Hero Award
Alumna Temie Giwa-Tubosun MPA ‘10, founder and CEO of the healthcare and logistics company LifeBank in Nigeria, has been awarded the inaugural Africa’s Business Hero Award and a prize of $250,000.
A milestone anniversary for the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), the nation’s largest NGO dedicated to WMD nonproliferation education and training.
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