What happens to the language industry’s talent pipeline if MIIS’s Translation & Localization Management program shuts down? In this episode of Localization Today, we speak with Prof. Eva Klaudinyová—Program Chair of TLM at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies—about the program’s legacy, STEM-driven curriculum, and why its alumni are so job-ready across Big Tech, LSPs, and public institutions. We unpack the enrollment and policy headwinds facing graduate education, how MIIS has kept pace with industry through constant curriculum updates, and what a three-to-five-year talent gap could look like.

Eva also outlines parallel efforts to keep the program alive—either by preserving MIIS or relocating TLM to a new academic home—and shares concrete ways the community can help, from statements of support to exploratory conversations with potential host institutions.