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The institute was established in 1919 at the cessation of World War I. Nobel Peace Prize winners Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, Elihu Root, former secretary of state, and Stephen Duggan, Sr., professor of political science at the College of the City of New York (and IIE's first president) formed the Institute of International Education with the idea that educational ...
The Kaufmann Conference Center was designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the architecture professor Edgar Kaufmann Jr..The conference hall is on the 12th floor of 809 United Nations Plaza, originally the headquarters of the Institute of International Education (IIE), at First Avenue and 45th Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1]
The report was endorsed by the foundation's board of trustees, and they subsequently voted to move the foundation to New York City in 1953. [ 4 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The board of directors decided to diversify the foundation's portfolio and gradually divested itself of its substantial Ford Motor Company stock between 1955 and 1974. [ 4 ]
Global Classrooms is a U.S.-based global education program, belonging to the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), that engages middle school and high school students in an exploration of current world issues through Model United Nations, wherein students step into shoes of UN Ambassadors and debate a range of issues on the UN agenda.
These conferences attracted so much attention that the American Social Science Association in its call for a meeting to be held in New York City on May 19, 1874, invited the State Boards of Charities in the several states to send delegates, and hold a conference in connection with it. In response, this meeting was known as the First National ...
The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is a non-profit organization promoting international education and exchange. It was founded in 1947 and is based in the United States. It was founded in 1947 and is based in the United States.
Edith Macy Conference Center is a conference and training facility owned by the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) and is located in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The facility lies just outside Briarcliff Manor's boundaries, in the town of Mount Pleasant . [ 1 ]
The United Nations International School (UNIS) is a private international school in New York City which was established in 1947. Many members of the United Nations staff arriving with young families found unexpected difficulties with the school system in New York.