July 20, 2016
IIE. Interactive Newsletter

International Education in the News

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IIE’s President and CEO Allan Goodman recently traveled to Greece to present on a panel, "Inequality, Poverty, Unemployment and Education in the Balkans and Mediterranean," at the fifth annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation International Philanthropy Conference. He discusses the important role that everyone in any sector can play in responding to the refugee crisis, in addition to the importance of education in empowering individuals to be upwardly mobile.

In this article, the U.S. is urged to take in more Syrian students and alleviate the burden on Turkey, which, the article argues, offers the best model of response so far. IIE is described as a leader in the efforts to respond to the higher education needs.

Organizations like IIE and the Tom Joyner Foundation are partnering with colleges and universities to broker relationships between the schools and the country in new areas of partnership. According to IIE’s Clare Banks, leaders and faculty have growing interest in addressing mutual research areas like agricultural development, environmental sustainability and public health.
 

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