Legacy Scholarship Offered by MIIS

The Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) will offer a $10,000 Legacy Scholarship to Middlebury College alumni and their family members.

Family members include an alumnus’ parents, siblings, spouses, children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. In its initial press release the College defined alumni as anyone who has completed “any Middlebury undergraduate or graduate degree program including those offered by the Language Schools, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the Institute itself.” Any legacy student who meets MIIS admission criteria and applies for the scholarship will receive it. Students entering

MIIS in the Spring of 2016 will be the first class the scholarship is available to.

Recently-hired Executive Director of Enrollment Management Rebecca Henriksen said she was struck by the power and impor- tance of the College’s alumni network and the role alumni play in MIIS’ enrollment.

“Intellectual curiosity, cultural awareness, social and environmental consciousness, an adventurous spirit and the desire to make a positive impact seem to run in the family throughout Middlebury,” she said.

“Many of our best students over the years have been legacies, and MIIS also sees a good number of Middlebury graduates moving on to earn their master’s degree with us here in Monterey. I thought implementing the Legacy Scholarship was a way for us to show our thanks to our alumni,” she said. Henriksen estimates that of 780 MIIS graduate students, 15 are Middlebury alumni. The legacy program is not funded by a private donation but instead uses institutional funds earmarked for scholarships for incoming students. The decision to offer the scholarship was the collaborative effort of a number of MIIS administrators: Director of Alumni Relations Leah Gowron, Vice President and Dean of the Institute Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Director of Admissions Sadia Khan, Associate Vice Pres- ident for Marketing and Creative Services Robin Gronlund and Henriksen.

Henriksen will be on campus on September 24th to host an information session on the scholarship.