The U.S. Department of State has announced the selection of Lisa Donohoe of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey for an English Language Specialist project focusing on curriculum development for diplomats and civil servants in Ukraine at the Diplomatic Academy and Civil Service Agency.
The Middlebury Institute is hosting 15 secondary school teachers from nine countries for a two-week professional development program sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Four Middlebury Institute alumnae will serve as U.S. State Department English Language Fellows in Rwanda, Niger, South Africa, and Thailand in the coming year.
“Beasts entered my city and everything collapsed,” says Middlebury Institute alumnus Adnan Al-Hammody MATESOL ’13 of his hometown of Mosul, Iraq. “Yet I remain hopeful.”
Celebrating the rich international culture of Monterey, the third annual Language Capital of the World Cultural Festival featured faculty, staff, and students from the Middlebury Institute.
A memorial event for longtime Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages professor Leo van Lier brought together friends, alumni, colleagues, and current students.
A 2013 class assignment for students in the Middlebury Institute’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages degree program has grown into a long-standing relationship and continuous development of a community of English teachers in Haiti.
