News & Events

News and Events

January 30, 2014

Protecting Scholars and the Right to Free Inquiry

The New School
By Samantha Power

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations highlights IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund during her lecture on “Protecting Scholars and the Right to Free Inquiry” at The New School.

January 24, 2014

A Lifeline for Syria’s Science Exiles

AAAS Science Magazine
By Richard Stone

IIE President and CEO, Dr. Allan Goodman, and IIE-SRF Fellow, Dr. Amal Alachkar, discuss the deterioration of Syria's education sector and how IIE is assisting Syrian scholars.

January 15, 2014

El Hassan bin Talal Annual Lecture in Post-war Recovery and Development

The University of York
By Dr. Allan Goodman

Dr. Allan Goodman discusses the importance of IIE-SRF's work in his speech "On the Rescue of Science of Learning". The speech took place at the University of York as part of the El Hassan bin Talal Annual Lecture in Post-war Recovery and Development.

December 8, 2013

Education Under Attack 2014

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
By Mark Richmond

A global study of threats or deliberate use of force against students, teachers, academics, education trade union members and government officials, aid workers and other education staff, and against schools, universities and other education institutions, carried out for political, military, ideological, sectarian, ethnic or religious reasons in 2009-2013.

December 8, 2013

Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack

This study examines the relationship between institutional autonomy and the security of higher education institutions from violent and coersive attacks. The paper includes a review of the limited literature available, as well as a series of examples illustrating different forms of attacks.

November 1, 2013

The Rescue of Science and Learning

Worldviews for the 21st Century
By Allan E. Goodman

IIE President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Allan Goodman, shares the success of IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund in a monograph presented by the Global Connections Foundation and the University of Central Florida’s Global Perspectives Office and Political Science Department.

May 15, 2013

“Uncounted and Unacknowledged: Syria’s University Students and Academics in Jordan”

By Keith David Watenpaugh and Adrienne L. Fricke with Tara Siegel

IIE-SRF partnered with hte University of California, Davis to issue a report on the conditions of Syrian refugee academics and university students.

May 10, 2013

The Institute of International Education has Rescued 500 Threatened Scholars

The New York Times
December 13, 2013

Protecting higher education from attack

University World News
By Peta Lee

University World News disccusses the report, Institutional Autonomy and the Protection of Higher Education from Attack, commissioned by The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) and IIE-SRF.

December 5, 2013

Right to Quality Education

IIE-SRF Co-Sponsored Event

December 10, 2013 | Please join Education International, Global Campaign for Education, International Council for Adult Education, Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund and Open Society Foundations to a reception highlighting the Right to Quality Education.