Science Magazine describes the conditions the drove Syrian scholars from their homes. IIE-SRF's 2016 Forum brought them together.
The University of Missouri profiles an IIE-SRF scholar from Syria specializing in endocrinology currently hosted at the university.
At a ceremony today in Wilmington, Delaware, the chairman of the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF), Mark Angelson, announced a $1 million gift in honor of Beau Biden, the former Attorney General of Delaware who passed away in May of 2015.
The endowment, made possible through an anonymous donation, will enable IIE-SRF to rescue one scholar in danger each year in perpetuity, as part of the organization’s work to ensure that there will always be a place where persecuted academics can find safe haven.
New Research Voices (NRV) is a community platform for researchers to share their work, opinions, and ideas with other researchers from around the globe. NRV’s second journal issue, Syrian Academics in Exile, features contributors who have left Syria behind to pursue academic freedom in safe haven countries.
The BBC reports on the Syrian higher education emergency.
"An entire generation of Syrians has had its education truncated, and the country's once flourishing academic community has been scattered or driven underground. The scale of the problem, according to the president of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Allan Goodman, is 'unprecedented' in the near 100-year history of his New-York based organisation. More than a quarter of young people were going into higher education. Five years later, around 2,000 academics and hundreds of thousands of students are living in the refugee camps of Turkey and Jordan. Many more are lost among the millions of internally displaced Syrians."
Chemical and Engineering News looks at the obstacles facing students in Syria who are trying to continue their education and the scholars who would educate them.
"'It’s very hard to know on a day-to-day basis what is happening,' says James R. King of the Institute of International Education in New York City. 'Exams are being conducted; students are being taught. No doubt there are students and faculty working very hard and who are at times in great danger for continuing their work.' He continues, 'For example, we hear from agricultural faculty about all the difficulties of doing research—perhaps their fieldwork was in eastern Syria,' which is now too dangerous to visit."
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