Blog Address Change

Thank you for visiting the PIM Admissions blog.  We’ve moved!

All the content of this blog, plus newer posts, are now hosted by SIT at http://blogs.sit.edu/graduate-institute.

The new blog expands content and places increased emphasis on all SIT Graduate Institute-related activities, its alumni, students, and faculty.  Now, the new blog can represent our whole organization’s capacities, distinctions, and vision.

The PIM Admissions blog lived at this address from October 2007 through March 2010.  For the freshest posts, please come visit us at the new location!

Your application and Financial Aid

If you have not yet applied for graduate studies at SIT and Financial Aid, it is not too late!   SIT has rolling admissions,  and financial aid will be available through the summer.  However, completing your graduate school application and financial aid application soon would allow you to be considered for some of SIT’s larger scholarships.

For questions regarding financial aid, please contact finaid@sit.edu.

SIT Graduate Insitute, October 09

Have you begun an application?  Want to know what’s happening at SIT with your application?  Need to know what materials have been received? There are several ways to find out.

At SIT we have rolling admissions.  Because SIT has no admission deadline, a decision on each application can be made shortly following its completion.  Once all your materials have been received, you can expect a decision usually within one month.

Selection criteria are the same in all on-campus degree areas of the Program in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management.

MA in Conflict Transformation (joint degree with Graduate Certificate)
MA in International Education (On Campus)
MA in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations
MA in Sustainable Development
MS in Management
MA in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management

In addition to our on campus programs, we offer two off-site programs that have slightly different selection criteria.  Info is on the website regarding each program.

Master of Global Management in the Sultanate of Oman
MA in International Education (Low Residency)

Once you have submitted an application, you have a variety of ways to check on your application status.

Students Stephanie Holleran and Michael Roberts featured in article on the Experiment in International Living

Program offers grads the opportunity to teach students abroad
by Alex Abel, Pipe Dream News

Graduating seniors have the opportunity to host a program and be a group leader in another country through the Experiment in International Living.

The program, which has chapters in 30 countries worldwide, gives leaders the opportunity to immerse themselves in the culture of another country and help a group of American high school students do the same.

Applicants for the group leader position require a bachelor’s degree, leadership experience in working with high school students, living or learning experience in the host country and competency in the language of that country.

Stephanie Holleran, a 2007 Binghamton University alumna and leadership assistant for the Experiment in International Living, is currently pursuing her master’s degree in International Education at SIT Graduate Institute (formerly known as the School for International Training), while working with Experiment in International Living as her work-study position.

Alumnus Azi Hussain and the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy featured on CNN

The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) will bring a group of religious leaders from Pakistan to SIT for one week in the early spring. Azi Hussain (seen in video), the Vice President for Preventive Diplomacy at ICRD, is a SIT Alum and will be accompanying the madrasa leaders while in Vermont. The group will be doing Multicultural Teamwork, Interfaith and Conflict Transformation training.

See other entries on Azhar Hussain on the PIM Admissions blog by clicking here.

SIT Representatives Near You

Do you live near these places?  SIT representatives will be there!  If you are an alum, a prospective student, or a friend of SIT by your own definition, please come say hello!

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February

Did you stop by and say hello at these events this week?

1st, Monday.  New York City:  Idealist.org Global Volunteering  Fair

2nd, Tuesday.  Atlanta:  Morehouse & Spellman College Grad School Fair

3rd, Wednesday. Philadelphia:  Idealist.org Global Volunteering Fair

4th, Thursday. Washington, DC: Idealist.org Global volunteering Fair

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20th, Saturday.  San Diego:  Lessons from Abroad

22nd, Monday.  Chicago: Idealist.org Global Volunteering Fair

23rd, Tuesday.  Boston: Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair

24th, Wednesday.  Storrs, CT: Careers for the Common Good

25th, Thursday.  Los Angeles: Idealist.org Global Volunteering Fair

26th, Friday.  Wellesley, MA: Not for Profit Fair

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March

Alumna Saskia Meckman ‘Women Expatriates: A View of their own’

Saskia Meckman, PIM 57

Saskia Meckman is an alumna of SIT Graduate Institute, with a degree in Intercultural and International Management.

Women Expatriates:  A View of Their Own

By Anne P. Copeland, Ph.D. and Saskia Meckman

Imagine Joan and John. Both are regional sales directors for their multinational corporations. Both have done well in their jobs and both are on the fast track in their companies. Both are married and have young children. And both are, at the moment, sitting at their computers on their company intranet, about to add their names to the pool of candidates interested in an international assignment.

Joan and John’s paths may sound similar. But from the moment they click their ‘Submit’ buttons, their international experiences are likely to be different. That is, they’ll be different to the extent that Joan is a “typical” woman and John a “typical” man. Women and men tend to have different international experiences, for three reasons: (1) their colleagues and customers – both at home and in the new country – treat them differently, (2) they play different roles within their families in ways that will affect their job performance, and (3) they have different personal skills to be tapped in the new country.

Alumnus Kyle Foster: ‘Yemen: Isolated and Misunderstood’

Alumnus Kyle Foster joins us today with an article written for the blog ‘Explorer Mikael Strandberg’.  Kyle is a PIM 57 with a degree in International Management.

Yemen:  Isolated and Misunderstood

Kyle Anthony Foster and me at a kat chew in Sanaa, Yemen. He is one of the biggest personalities I have met. And very knowledgeable of yemen. He speaks fluent Arabic, is married to a Yemeni from Mukalla and has at least one child.

Guest writer number 5 is Kyle Anthony Foster from Nebraska, who is currently living in Yemen, and have been doing so for the last ten years or more. He is one of the biggest personalities and characters I have come across, a true story teller, survivor, human being and adventurer of the old sorts. Everything happens to this guy! Not one boring second with him. He is married to a nice Yemeni from Mukalla and they have a lovely daughter together. He knows the ins and outs of Yemen. An important voice to listen to, these days of painting Yemen as one of the most dangerous countries in the world!

I am writing to you from a long, white sands beach under swaying palm trees on the south coast of Arabia, in Yemen. The sun is setting over the Arabian Sea in a blaze of orange and gold.  These days my sun also rises in Yemen.  In fact, Yemen has been the place I call home for most of the last ten years.  I met Mikael here last year and we became immediate friends; sharing a love of adventure and expanding our horizons through travel.  It might surprise you to think of some of the world’s most pristine and beautiful beaches in Yemen.  It might also surprise you to know that the country is not a giant sand pit but a mountainous country, incredibly green in the rainy season, with incredible gorges and vistas throughout. So, when Mikael asked if I might write something about Yemen I grabbed paper and pen and headed straight for the beach.  It is here, where the blue waters of the Arabian Sea meet the white beaches and rocky headlands of Arabia that the story of Yemen and its people begin.

Adjunct Faculty Eric Bass wins highest honor for the Arts

Eric Bass is an adjunct faculty member focusing on the Arts and Theater for Social Change concentration.  For more information about this concentration within the Conflict Transformation degree, click here.

Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts 2010

We are pleased to announce that Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass, founders of Sandglass Theater in Putney, VT will receive Vermont’s highest honor in the arts, the Governor’s Award for Excellence. The world-renowned puppeteers will be celebrated in a ceremony at the Vermont State House on Thursday, February 11 at 7 PM. The free public event will include a performance by Sandglass Theater and friends.

SIT Farm – the video

Articles on the SIT Farm:

SIT Farm Wrap-Up: Year One

Farm Manager Steve Hed, PIM 61: A Personal Note on the SIT Farm

SIT Graduate Institute Campus Community Farm Works to Create a Sustainable Food Source

Professor Paula Green: Conflict Transformed

Paula Green is founder and Executive Director of Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, a US-based NGO focused on international conflict transformation, inter-communal dialogue, and reconciliation. She serves as Professor of Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training, where she directs CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures), an annual Peacebuilding Institute and Graduate Certificate Program for peacemakers from around the world.

A Welcome to Diana Francis’ reflections: Conflict Transformed
by Paula Green
Summary:
This new generation missed out on the US civil rights movement, where nonviolent direct action was employed brilliantly and strategically in the service of change. Now it’s time for all of us to respond to the ultimate challenge of how warfare dominates our discourse.

Like the author of Conflict Transformed [2], I have participated in movements for peace and justice as they arise and fall away in our own time, including those for civil rights and women’s liberation in the US. We served together on the Steering Committee of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, where we cheered the Filipino nonviolent revolution, watched the Berlin Wall tumble, and identified ourselves as supporters and trainers for active nonviolence, inspired by the quest for justice and the matching of means and ends.  At that time, less than twenty years ago, there were few graduate degrees in peace and conflict, and we seemed to be activists and advocates in nonviolent social change rather than professionals in peacebuilding.