Ten years after it merged with Middlebury College in Vermont, the school formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies has finally incorporated Middlebury into its name: It is now officially called Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The acronym for the school, MIIS, remains the same.
The name change was announced in a statement from MIIS earlier this week, and came as the result of recommendations from Middlebury's most recent accreditation in 2010. The other recommendation accreditation agency made—consolidate the governance structure of Middlebury's schools into one central board—was enacted last July 1.
Middlebury's board of trustees approved the identity change last September.
"Educational institutions do not make these changes lightly, and that certainly was true here," Middlebury President Ron Liebowitz says in the statement. "But the need for this was impossible to ignore."
A new shield was also introduced for MIIS, which incorporates the campus' iconic Segal Building.
Students currently enrolled at MIIS have the option of having either the former name or the current one on their diplomas.
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