The Opening Minds blog is IIE’s take on how the field of international education continues to change. Here, IIE’s leaders explore global student mobility, institutional partnerships, international development, and other topics and trends that are shaping higher education around the world. Opening Minds is a space to examine new ideas, confront challenging issues, reflect on different experiences, and ultimately provide some insight into what IIE's leaders do, why they are doing it, and whether it’s working.

The growing team of Opening Minds bloggers consists of staff from across IIE’s diverse centers of excellence and domestic and international offices. These bloggers look forward to addressing some of the most important issues in international education today and hope that you will read, share, and comment with us. 

We invite you to explore recent posts on our blog:

• Alumni Tracking - Designing an Innovative Long-Term Study of Major Scholarship Programs, by Mirka Tvaruzkova, Senior Evaluation Officer with IIE’s Center for Academic Mobility Research
• An Education Crisis in Syria, by Daniela Kaisth, Vice President for Strategic Development at IIE
• Education and the Workforce: Matching Skills and Needs: Reflections on the 2012 World Innovation Summit in Doha, by Daniel Obst, IIE’s Deputy Vice President for International Partnerships
• The Role of the University in World Society, by IIE’s President and CEO Allan E. Goodman
• Walking the Walk on Youth Leadership Development, by Cheryl Francisconi, Director of IIE’s sub-Saharan Africa office. 

The Opening Minds blog will be updated several times per month with original content. To read, comment on, and share posts from IIE’s Opening Minds blog, please visit: www.iie.org/blog.