Celebrating Partners
By Allan E. Goodman

Planning for the Institute’s September 21 International Awards Gala has provided a valuable opportunity to focus on new opportunities and pressing needs in international education, and to celebrate the impact of our work and the people who make it possible.

At a time when partnerships between the U.S. and India are growing in importance, we are honored that Kapil Sibal, India’s Minister of Human Resource Development, will join us in New York to accept an award recognizing his commitment to internationalizing Indian higher education.

Focusing on empowering women, our Opening Minds Corporate Leadership Award will be presented to Microsoft, a key supporter of the Women in Technology Program for the Middle East and North Africa Region. The recipients of IIE’s Women’s Leadership Award, Denise Benmosche and Amy Brandt, have played a seminal role in guiding the strategy and fundraising efforts of the Scholar Rescue Fund to help scholars around the world who are in danger.

To celebrate the impact of the State Department's Fulbright Program, we will present an alumni award to the renowned artist Chuck Close, who had a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria in 1964, marking the launch of his exceptional career.

We hope you will join us by attending or supporting this important event.

Open Doors Spotlight

U.S. students studying abroad                  262,416

Students from Indonesia in the U.S.             7,509

U.S. students studying abroad in Indonesia                                         74

Help Us Celebrate a Leader in Scholar Rescue

The Wall Street Journal highlighted Denise Benmosche as “Donor of the Day” on August 12 for her work with the Scholar Rescue Fund. Read Denise's story and join us at the Gala on Tuesday, September 21 to honor her and other leaders in international education.
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Participate in Young Leaders Dialogue with America

U.S. graduate students and young professionals in security, tolerance and diversity, and environmental fields can apply to take part in a conference in Prague in November with counterparts from Central Europe and the Baltic States.
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Meet Leaders in Haiti's Re-Development

IIE’s West Coast Center hosted an open discussion with ten Haitian engineers, environmental developers and community organizers who are in the Bay area on an International Visitor Leadership Program to examine urban environmental planning challenges and review policies that affect urban communities.
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Listen now: Scholar Rescue Fund saves the lives and work of scholars in danger

Radio host Jim Bohannon interviews IIE President Allan Goodman and SRF Board Member Fred Tarter on how and why this IIE program is rescuing threatened scholars from Iraq and around the world.
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See how IIE is helping U.S. students to access doctoral education in Europe 

IIE joined a new consortium, led by CampusFrance, with Germany’s DAAD, Netherlands’ Nuffic, UK’s British Council, and Belgium’s Eurodoc, to help more students from outside of Europe to benefit from doctoral programs in these countries.
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Learn about IIE's efforts to deepen U.S.-Indonesian academic ties

Together with the United States-Indonesia Society, East-West Center, and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, IIE issued a call for a comprehensive re-invigoration of the U.S.-Indonesia higher education relationship.
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