IIE IMPACT Newsletter Fall 2024 Vol. 2

The Institute of International Education (IIE), the world’s leader in international educational exchange and scholar rescue, announced trustee gifts of $33 million to address the world’s most challenging higher education crises.

The contributions will support visionary programs focused on protecting scholars under threat, creating pathways of opportunity for displaced students, and safeguarding national academies.

Just days into the Israel-Gaza war, amid warnings to evacuate, Sami Muslih fled Gaza City with his children. Their house had been completely destroyed. But southern Gaza was not safe, either. The family moved from place to place, trying to find a haven. Soon he knew: He had to get them out.

Once safely out of Gaza, though, Muslih, a professor of mathematical physics and university administrator, faced a new obstacle: how to work, continue his decades of research, and educate his children.

WISE – Qatar Foundation’s global initiative for education – has partnered with IIE and seven universities to explore the role of AI in higher education and skills development for the AI era.

The WISE Global Research Consortium on AI, higher education, and the global workforce is embarking on a series of studies that will take place across diverse geographical contexts over the next 12 months. These studies have been designed to provide new insight into the integration of AI into curricula and practice, its role in closing the skills gap, and preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of an AI-driven world of work.

“The economic and business case for gender parity is clear. According to a 2023 report from the World Economic Forum, full female participation in the labor force ‘would increase global GDP by an estimated 20%’.

All of us have a stake in protecting and empowering the next generation of women leaders. We need solutions, led by government and business alike, that sustain women through higher education and on into their careers.”

Read more from IIE CEO Allan Goodman in Forbes’ Nonprofit Council.

Artists are peacemakers, changemakers, and keystones in society. They challenge the status quo, brave controversy, and satirize the powerful, all while pushing for social change. Despite their pivotal role, artists can face grave risks, especially when their art and their activism become vehicles for dissent against power.

IIE’s Artist Protection Fund fills a critical gap by supporting the lives, voices, and ideas of threatened artists and is uniquely positioned to assist these artists by placing them at welcoming institutions for up to a full year, during which they can continue their work and plan for their futures.

How is the Artist Protection Fund supporting creative voices?