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IIE-SRF was founded and endowed in 2002, [2] when IIE's trustees committed to making scholar rescue a permanent part of its work. As of 2023, IIE-SRF has provided over 1,700 awards with the collaboration of over 480 institutions from 55 different countries. [5]
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 ...
In 1946, the U.S. Department of State invited IIE to administer the graduate student component and CIES [clarification needed] to administer the faculty component of the Fulbright Program—IIE's largest program to date. [32] The Council for International Exchange of Scholars is a division of IIE that administers the Fulbright Scholar Program.
CIES is a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE). Over 800 Fulbright Scholar awards are granted annually to U.S. scholars and professionals to lecture, research or do both for a semester or an academic year. Awards are granted in all academic disciplines and a variety of interdisciplinary fields.
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is a United States Cultural Exchange Program. Named after the late Congressman Benjamin Gilman , former chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee , the program is administered by the United States Department of State and supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education .
The IIE traces its heritage to the Vulcanic Society that was founded in 1884. The Vulcanic Society was formed [1] by a group of apprentices from the works of Maudslay, Son & Field Ltd, in Lambeth, London. This society went through three name changes before it became the Junior Institution of Engineers in 1902, which became the Institution of ...
Every college or university that offers an Industrial Engineer degree program is eligible to have an IISE student chapter. Students need to send a formal application to the organization and once it is approved, they will be assigned with a chapter number and a formal recognition. Then, a Faculty Advisor and Chapter Officers are elected.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by Adam S. Posen since 2013.