Davis UWC Scholars Become Fellows
at the Monterey Institute
A Special Chance to Learn
at a Globally Focused School
It was a natural match.
The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in
California is among the most international learning communities
in higher education: More than a third of its 750 students
comes from outside the United States, and 90 percent of its
American students have some experience abroad. Primarily a
graduate school, MIIS blends academics with the building of
practical skills and experience for internationally oriented
careers.
So when the Institute — which last year became an affiliate
of Middlebury College — offered a new set of intensive,
three-week fellowship programs for Davis UWC Scholars, three
dozen Scholars made the commitment. The mini-courses focus
on development project management, nonproliferation studies,
and global trade and development; the first two were delivered
last summer, the third in January.
“MIIS essentially is like a professional school — and
the professors here train people who go on to actually work
in these fields,” says global-trade fellow Daniel Tan
(Singapore, UWC-USA, Vassar ‘09). “Some of the
professors here have been working at the World Bank, the IMF.
Many universities don’t have this kind of course.”
The Davis Fellows “contributed by bringing their backgrounds
to the Monterey Institute,” says Carolyn Taylor, who coordinates
both the development and trade programs. “Just this week,
we held a campus-wide event, a trade negotiation simulation — and
all 19 of the participants [in the global trade course] were
there. They spoke in their native tongues, and we had interpreters
for four of those languages: Russian, Spanish, French, and Chinese.”
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