Please join IIE and SRF for a special symposium at Columbia University featuring SRF scholars from…
Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan, Columbia President Lee Bollinger and SRF scholars from around the world were in Lerner Hall yesterday discussing academic freedom in places where scholars are imprisoned, executed and oppressed in other ways…
On July 29th, the law offices of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP hosted a luncheon to raise awareness and support for SRF’s activities.
Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Executive Director Jim Miller responds to questions posed by the on-line magazine America.gov. Miller highlights the widespread –- yet underreported—attacks on scholars worldwide and discusses the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) historic and current response to this global concern.
Deputy Executive Director, Sarah Willcox, traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania to participate in the Scholars-at-Risk network meeting and symposium, “Defending the University: Academic Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe” held at the European Humanities University.
Dr. Henry Kaufman, with the Institute for International Education, is helping to save foreign scholars from persecution.
The Community College Times interviews IIE President & CEO, Dr. Allan Goodman, on the successes of the Scholar Rescue Fund. The article highlights the story of one rescued scholar from Liberia who taught creative writing at a community college in Texas. Community colleges are now joining the efforts of the Scholar Rescue Fund in increasing numbers.
In unfree societies, intellectuals are the enemy of the state. They are trained to think critically, and that's something dictators don't like citizens to do. Social control requires conformity. Intellectuals, however, have the habit of being curious, of asking questions and challenging the official party line.
I appreciate very much the invitation to address this World Congress. The schools represented here make education accessible at a time when in many countries around the world it is becoming less so.
SRF and the New School for Social Science Research announced the creation of the annual SRF/New School fellowship to assist one distinguished scholar per year. The partnership was announced on February 7th at a New School panel discussion entitled “Endangered Scholars Worldwide” SRF fellows IRAN004 (Law/Human Rights), IRAQ087 (Archaeology) and ETHI024 (Economics) participated in the panel and spoke about their experiences under threat in their home countries and their grateful returns to academic activity.
Read about application and selection processes, the fellowship experience, and how to partner with IIE-SRF.
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