ELS Educational Services has established a scholarship program to provide English language training to scholars supported by the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF). Most SRF scholars in the United States have visiting fellowships to teach or continue their research. Since a majority of the rescued scholars do not speak English as their native language, ELS will provide full tuition scholarships to the SRF scholars and their spouses at any of the 63 ELS Language Centers across the United States. The ELS scholarship will play a key role in ensuring the scholars’ academic contributions to their host institutions while also helping them better navigate their new environment.
The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund assists professors, researcher and public intellectuals who are at risk of imprisonment or physical harm due to war, terrorism, political repression, human rights violation, or issues of gender, religious belief or denial of the right to express their views. Since its inception in 2002, SRF has assisted nearly 500 scholars from 48 countries, placing them at nearly 300 safe haven universities in 40 countries around the world, so they can escape from the harassment, discrimination and repression when they faced in their home countries.