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"Produced by the Institute of International Education and the University of California, Davis Human Rights Initiative, The War Follows Them: Syrian University Students and Scholars in Lebanon starts by setting out the scale of the problem. There are now more than a million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with perhaps 360,000 of them aged between 15 and 24 and as many as 70,000 of them students in Syria until the crisis. Yet there are at most 10,000 and maybe as few as 6,500 Syrian students currently enrolled in Lebanese universities, and that includes those who came before the conflict."

University World News features IIE and UC Davis' recent report, The War Follows Them: Syrian University Students and Scholars in Lebanon. The report is based on first-hand research and interviews conducted in Lebanon to better understand the barriers Syrians face in accessing higher education in Lebanon.

Al-Fanar Media features IIE and UC Davis' recent report, The War Follows Them: Syrian University Students and Scholars in Lebanon. The report is based on first-hand research and interviews conducted in Lebanon to better understand the barriers Syrians face in accessing higher education in Lebanon.

IIE Scholar Rescue Fund's partners, Human Rights Watch and The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), report that the Norwegian government's leadership has committed to improving international standards to protect schools and universities from military use during armed conflict.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the Scholars at Risk Network Global Congress held in Amsterdam this April. The two-day conference brought together individual and organizational partners, including IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund, to examine threats to scholars worldwide and the available networks and mechanisms to protect scholars and prevent future threats.

IIE President and CEO, Dr. Allan E. Goodman shares how IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund is assisting threatened scholars of the arts with the Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider Scholar Rescue Award in the Arts.