IIE. Events in New York

IIE invites you to an event celebrating the publication

Latin America’s New Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Government, and International Collaboration

Panel discussion followed by a reception

February 13, 2013

4:00-6:00 p.m.

809 United Nations Plaza

(1st Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets)

New York, NY 10017

On February 13th, the Institute of International Education and the American Institute for Foreign Study Foundation will celebrate the launch of Latin America’s New Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Government, and International Collaboration, the newest publication in the Global Education Research Reports Series. The event will include a panel discussion led by the book’s editor, Jorge Balán, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, with a book signing and light reception to follow.

The last few decades have been a time of impressive growth and change for higher education in Latin America. Latin America's New Knowledge Economy reviews the policies, institutions, and programs that helped bring about these changes, as well as their outcomes in terms of access, workforce training, and research. In the book, leading scholars from Latin America in the U.S. explore key issues, including higher education’s role in advanced workforce development, trends in academic mobility and outcomes for brain circulation, and investment in the region by U.S. universities and corporations.

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