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Academic Leaders Reflect on the Mutual Benefits of Welcoming Threatened Scholars More scholars than ever before are facing repression, targeting, and violence worldwide; last year, the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) received the second-largest number of applications in its history, surpassed only by 2023. From Sudan and Ukraine to Cameroon and the Gaza Strip, academics are […]
World Youth Skills Day 2025: Empowering Youth Through the Qatar Scholarship for Afghans Project
When the United Nations General Assembly established World Youth Skills Day in 2015, the goal was clear: to spotlight the importance of equipping young people with the skills needed to secure employment, access decent work, and foster entrepreneurship. A decade later, the world has changed in ways few could have predicted. The rise of artificial […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Engineering Exchange with IIE’s Global E3 Consortium
Study Abroad Among U.S. Engineering Students Has Grown More Than 5x Since Global E3’s Founding Rapid change, from biotechnologies to infrastructure to aerospace, has placed engineering in demand around the world. But how can educators ensure that engineering students are well-rounded enough to work across and thrive on international and multicultural teams? Thirty years ago, […]
$10M and Counting
US-UK BRIDGE Partnership Advances Research for a Sustainable Future IIE congratulates the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Birmingham (UK) on receipt of the 2025 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in the category of Sustainability. Founded in 2014, the Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement & Education (BRIDGE Partnership) initiative has […]
Tri-Lateral International Partnership Aims to Fill Nursing Shortage
Partnership Leverages Micro-Credentials, Exam Prep, and Employment Opportunities IIE congratulates the Alamo Colleges District (ACD) and TecMilenio University for receiving the 2025 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in the category of Strategic Partnerships. Their joint International Nursing Pathway initiative formalizes a study and training program to help fill the nursing shortage across […]
Dance, Meet Study Abroad
OU Dance Festival Doubles as an International Educational Exchange Program IIE congratulates The University of Oklahoma (OU) for receiving a 2025 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in the category of Student Mobility & Exchange. At OU’s Pigmentos International Dance Festival in Puebla, U.S. and Mexican students and instructors exchange ideas, share their […]
Start Close, Go Far
How a Texas Community College Brings the World to 12,000 Students Each Year IIE congratulates Lone Star College (LSC) on receiving a 2025 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education in the category of Widening Access to International Education. LSC’s Global EdVantage initiative has grown LSC’s international division from a small office that offered […]
A New Chapter in Academic Diplomacy Between the U.S. and Vietnam
This Spring, IIE Led a Delegation to Connect U.S. and Vietnamese Higher Education Administrators. IIE’s Center for International Partnerships was honored to lead a historic delegation of 21 U.S. universities to Vietnam in early April, thanks to generous funding from the U.S. Mission Vietnam. The delegation is part of the Center’s flagship program, the International […]