Inside Higher Ed reports on the Scholar Rescue Fund's new initiative to assist the imperiled Iraqi academic community. The article highlights the impressive scope of this project which aims to save some 200 Iraqi scholars and focus on placing them at host institutions within the Middle East and North African regions.
Bloomberg news reports on Scholar Rescue Fund efforts to expand support to threatened Iraqi scholars. IIE Trustees and SRF founders Henry Jarecki, Tom Russo and Henry Kaufman share their experiences and commitment to continuing IIE's legacy of rescue
Hundreds of professors and students have been killed or kidnapped, hundreds more have fled, and those who remain face daily threats of violence
The newspaper's Higher Education section features the work of an SRF scholar of psychiatry, bringing attention to the affects of on-going violence and political instability in his native Sri Lanka.
Reporter Jim Giles describes the growing threats to professors in Iraq and the frustrations they face rebuilding their lives and careers in a new country. IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund features as one of the few organizations extending support.
An SRF scholar-grantee escaped the bombing of his newspaper in Iraq and death threats in his classroom. He is now teaching literature and Arabic in the US. His essay in the Washington Post "Iraq's Deadliest Zone: Schools," gives a dramatic account of the perils he faced in Iraq, his painful decision to flee, and the urgent situation for many other scholars still there today
The Los Angeles Times features an article about a Scholar Rescue Fund grantee from Colombia currently on fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley. The article describes the journalism professor's harrowing experiences in Colombia where he and his young family received death threats as a result of his investigative reporting on Colombia's drug traffickers, paramilitary squads and the country's political elite
IIE President Allan Goodman and IIE European Office Director Chris Medalis took part in a conference commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, discussing IIE's program to assist students who fled Hungary at that time, in an effort that was a precursor to today's IIE Scholar Rescue Fund. Read more about the conference, including an anniversary booklet titled "Hungarian Refugee Students and United States Colleges and Universities: A Report on the Emergency Program to Aid Hungarian University Students in the U.S., 1956-1958."
A Scholar Rescue Fund recipient from Ethiopia was honored during a benefit showing of his latest work at New York's Chelsea Art Museum. Over 150 supporters enjoyed meeting the scholar and hearing remarks from SRF Chair Henry Jarecki and Co-Chair of the SRF Women's Leadership Committee Denise Benmosche, in whose honor a women's scholar chair has been named.
Purchase College president Thomas J. Schwarz awarded IIE President Allan E. Goodman an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The State University of New York. The award recognizes his work in rescuing threatened scholars. Dr. Goodman also visited with a Scholar Rescue Fund recipient from South Asia recently named to a professorship for the next academic year. Press Release
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