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March 28, 2014

Creating Global Citizens

University World News
By Neal King

IIE Scholar Rescue Fund is a proud partner of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). IAUP continues to encourage its members to support IIE-SRF by providing threatened scholars with academic positions at institutions around the world.

March 28, 2014

Fund to save artists from conflict zones

The Art Newspaper
By Emily Sharpe

The Art Newspaper features IIE Scholar Rescue Fund's Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider Scholar Rescue Award. Ten fellowships of $25,000 are to be awarded to threatened scholars in the arts.

March 21, 2014

Struggling to Save a Generation of Syrian School Children on the Second Shift

Huffington Post
By Keith David Watenpaugh

An IIE, IIE-SRF, and UC Davis collaborative research team is currently in Lebanon on a fact-finding mission that aims to produce policy-relevant recommendations for meeting the higher education needs of Syrian university students and scholars in refugee communities.  Professor Keith Watenpaugh filed this piece to the Huffington Post.

March 21, 2014

Why is Syria launching a space program during a civil war?

The Verge
By Amar Toor

The war in Syria has had a shattering impact on the higher education and science sectors. IIE's VP Daniela Kaisth is quoted describing how students and scholars have often been caught in the middle of the turmoil.

March 13, 2014

Under fire: bearing witness to assaults on the academy

Times Higher Education
By Matthew Reisz

Education under Attack 2014 is a report by Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) and includes a comprehensive view on the scale of assaults on higher education. The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund is a founding member of GCPEA along with Unesco, other UN agencies and a range of children’s, human rights and educational charities.

February 18, 2014

Safe Haven

Rutgers Magazine
By Wendy Plump

IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, shares details of her experience as a scholar at Rutgers University.