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Connecticut College creates opportunities that build an intellectual home for pluralistic perspectives through educational pathways. We endeavor to maintain an international experience that is comprehensive and diverse by encouraging students to study and work abroad and by supporting a variety of programs, clubs, and networks for students with international backgrounds. The reciprocal relationships of consistent learning about many different global cultures and perspectives are intended outcomes. The Davis United World College Scholars Program adds an indispensable financial incentive to Connecticut College’s generous financial aid policies and further enhances the structural diversity within our international community. We continue to value the opportunity to keep this program flourishing at the college and to increase the access to a Connecticut College education.

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— excerpt from Connecticut College

report to the Davis UWC Scholars Program

Davis UWC Scholars Become Fellows at the Monterey Institute

A Special Chance to Learn at a Globally Focused School

Students at MIIS.

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.”