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From: Lesley Groff < To: Jefffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: What We're Doing to Champion International Education from Brazil to Indonesia and at the G8/G20 Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:41:55 +0000 Begin forwarded message: From: Institute of International Education <news@iie org> Date: May 26, 2011 1:38:22 PM EDT To: Subject: What We're Doing to Champion International Education from Brazil to Indonesia and at the G8/G20 Reply-To: newsOiie.org If you are unable to read this newsletter, please click here IIE Global News Support IIE I News 84 Events I Careers I Publications May/June Membership 2011 HIGHLIGHTS LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT I had the great privilege to La.:Indonesian Minister Fasli Jalal honored with deliver the commencement Kaufman Prize address at Dickinson College HE Presents Award to Indonesian Vice Minister this past weekend. It is a pleasure to see so many IIE presented Fasli Jalal, Vice Minister of National immensely talented young Education to the Republic of Indonesia, with the Inaugural people getting ready to embark Henry Kaufman Prize at a ceremony in Washington, DC on upon their new lives and May 4th. Assistant Secretary of State Ann Stock joined in careers -- including several presenting the award, which recognized Minister Jalal for who will teach and study overseas through the Fulbright his outstanding contributions to the field of international Program. education in Indonesia and throughout the world. Read Minister Jalal's remarks Dickinson is a leader in study abroad, and I applaud President Durden's commitment to providing Learn How We Are Working To Build Closer Ties students with the international With Indonesia experience to develop skills needed by American and To increase the number of U.S. students who study abroad international graduates to in Indonesia, IIE brought a delegation of U.S. campus EFTA00433140 succeed in the global leaders to meet with counterparts and take part in a workforce. workshop focused on strengthening higher education ties The previous week, I had the between the two countries. This is part of the U.S.- opportunity to travel to Brazil to Indonesia Partnership Program for Study Abroad Capacity, meet with higher education a two-year initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of leaders in government State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. ministries, scholarship agencies, and universities. I had expected to be impressed with the bold new training Meet Four Dickinson College Graduates Selected for initiatives that were being put in place to meet the needs of the Fulbright Awards country's rapidly growing Four Dickinsonians have been selected for prestigious economy. Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards. Two students will conduct research — one in Egypt and one in Argentina -- I was more surprised, and greatly heartened, to learn that while two others have been awarded English Teaching President Dilma Rousseff had Assistantships that will enable them to engage with just announced that she aims communities in Indonesia and Thailand, respectively. to provide 75,000 study abroad scholarships to Brazilian students through 2014. This is exactly the right step to Raising the Profile of International Higher Education prepare Brazil's young people at the G8/G2o to thrive in the knowledge economy. I hope to see more IIE and Campus France convened the inaugural session of Brazilian students coming to this new annual summit in Paris on May 9-10. the U.S. to study. Representatives from the leading host and sending countries explored the key policy challenges facing We are also working to increase U.S. study abroad international education and discussed the issues that drive opportunities in China, India, national policies and impact global academic mobility. The Indonesia and other Asian United States will host the meeting next year. countries, with support from the U.S. Departments of State and Education, the National Security Education Program IIE's Japan Emergency Fund Has Helped More Than and the Freeman Foundation. zoo Students Educational exchange plays an 11E, with support from the Freeman Foundation, made important role in deepening the grants totaling over $400,000 to more than 100 students in ties between the U.S. and the the first round of its emergency grants program. The grants world. This month's news items are helping students from Japan on U.S. campuses whose highlight the ways we are facilitating this on a policy level. home country support has been devastated by the recent earthquake and tsunami. Allan Goodman G11 New IIE Books Look at Global Mobility Over the last decade, the number of Open Doors Spotlight students studying outside of their ,:Student home country grew at an Mobility and Indonesian Students in the unprecedented rate. While most of the the U.S. - 6.943 traditional host countries are seeing International U.S. Study Abroad in Indonesia the numbers of international students ization of -176 continue to rise, newly emerging hosts Higher in the developing world have entered Education Brazilian Students in the U.S. - the competitive higher education 8.786 market and are re-mapping the flow of global talent. A suite of new books look closely at mobility EFTA00433141 U.S. Study Abroad in Brazil - trends, internationalization policies, and institutional 2,777 strategies for internationalizing higher education. Learn more about the Buy the books economic impact of international education. > Resources for You • IIE Annual Report is online • Fulbright - Student and Scholar Opportunities • IIEPassport - Find a Study Abroad Program • Study Abroad Funding • Funding U.S. Study • Intensive English USA • Education USA - How to Study in the U.S. • Offer a Scholarship Support IIE - Contribute Now Emergency Student Fund Connect with usR,R,R,R, © 2011 Institute of International Education. Inc. All rights reserved. Unsubscribe I Subscribe I Forward to a friend EFTA00433142