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IIE- Scholar Rescue Fund Chairman, Mr. Mark Angelson and IIE President and CEO, Dr. Allan E. Goodman join "Richard Heffner's Open Mind" to discuss IIE and IIE-SRF's legacy of rescuing threatened scholars

IIE-SRF Fellow Amal Alachkar shares her experience as a Syrian scholar forced to leave her country in order to continue her work.

Al-Fanar reports on IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund's forum, Syrian Higher Education in Crisis: The Road Forward.

An article about the IIE-SRF experience in post- 2003 Iraq and offering lessons for ensuring that the provision of immediate protection also supports scientists in their work.

Report on IIE-SRF Erbil conference highlights challenges facing Iraqi universities.

"How do I tell if I am connecting with my students if they are Munaqaba?" The question was followed by somewhat stunned silence and then a good answer that, like most Zen problems, required some inner reflection. This was the most difficult question of some 100 that we got in two days of plenary and workshop sessions on classroom and faculty assessment: how to do it and why it matters. We also kept score and of our five scholar rescue conferences, this one generated by far the most participant engagement, which is a very hopeful sign. Faculty want to connect with and do better by their students and administrators are beginning to encourage this. Feedback and assessment are important first steps toward embracing a student-centered learning approach and encouraging critical thinking, which is not the way things have been done here.