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The Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) arranges, funds, and supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide, including inside their home regions. These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at ...
In 1932, at age 24 and well before he began his broadcast career, the Institute of International Education appointed Edward R. Murrow to the position of assistant director by its founder and Director, Stephen P. Duggan. Late in 1933, Murrow also became (without pay) the Assistant Secretary of the Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. [5]
After a years-long wait, Cameroonian scientist Henry Meriki arrived at Wesleyan University in Middletown this fall through a fellowship program that helps accomplished scholars facing life ...
In 2002, SAR partnered with the Institute of International Education which was then establishing IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund. [6] The Fund provides financial support to scholars facing grave threats so that they may escape dangerous conditions and continue their academic work in safety. [6]
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 foundation began with a focus on alleviating homelessness in New York, and aids scholars whose work and lives are threatened in repressive societies. He also serves as Chairman of the Development Committee for the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund. The committee's goal is to provide a safe haven for academics and ...
In 2010, Marc van Roosmalen received a grant from the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education in NY. He was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence for the 2010-2011 academic year at Bard College. [10] Van Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine and Van Roosmalen's dwarf marmoset are discovered by and named after him.
The fund is named after her own adorable rescue pup named Clyde and a children's book she wrote inspired by Clyde entitled Clydeo Takes a Bite Out of Life which releases October 1.