May 11, 2016
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IIE Blog: Report Provides Evidence that Higher Education Opportunities Lead to Social Change

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Mirka Martel, Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute of International Education, shares some of the key findings from the recently released report Social Justice and Sustainable Change: The Impacts of Higher Education. This ten-year longitudinal study of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) is unprecedented in its size and scope, and has brought IIE to the forefront of research linking higher education to broader social change. Among the report’s key findings is that the impacts of the IFP have gone beyond just the individual outcomes, into affecting organizations and communities where IFP leaders have promoted social change.
 
 

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