In the News

In The Jordan Times, SRF Chairman Dr. Henry Jarecki and SRF Board Member HRH Princess Ghida Talal, describe the systematic killing of Iraqi professors “for committing the crime of continuing to teach and research and educate.” In response, SRF is placing threatened Iraqi professors at academic institutions in Jordan and throughout the Middle East to return them to safe and productive academic work.

As political strife is a constant around the globe, the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund assists scholars whose academic freedom is threatened in their home countries.

SRF Board Member HRH Princess Ghida Talal received the Humanitarian Award for International Cooperation from the Institute of International Education in recognition of her humanitarian work with the SRF Iraq Project and her dedicated philanthropy.

Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan, Columbia President Lee Bollinger and SRF scholars from around the world were in Lerner Hall yesterday discussing academic freedom in places where scholars are imprisoned, executed and oppressed in other ways…

Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Executive Director Jim Miller responds to questions posed by the on-line magazine America.gov.  Miller highlights the widespread –- yet underreported—attacks on scholars worldwide and discusses the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) historic and current response to this global concern.