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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 ...
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 ITT International Fellowship Program was a program of grants promoting international educational student exchanges, similar to the Fulbright Program, sponsored by the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation.
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.
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 .
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]
IIE may stand for: The Independent Institute of Education, South Africa; Innovative Interstellar Explorer, a proposed mission to send a probe to the heliopause; Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise, French public Grandes écoles specializing in computer science; Institute for International Economics, economics think tank based in Washington, D.C.
The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is a professional exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. ...