We are now accepting proposals for the Faculty Abroad Seminar (FAS) to Mexico. FAS to Mexico is a 10-day professional development seminar that enables faculty to learn about Mexico’s history, culture, people and society, universities, and institutions while building their own professional networks with counterparts at peer universities and institutions.

IIE/CCIES is currently recruiting reviewers for the Fulbright Discipline Peer Review selection process. If you or a colleague is interested in serving the Fulbright Scholar Program in this capacity, please provide the name and contact information of anyone you believe we should consider serving on a committee.

When the current Education for All (EFA) goals expire in 2015, the pendulum of global funding for education may swing in the direction of higher education.

The EFA movement—supported for over a decade by more than 160 countries and coordinated by UNESCO—has a lofty goal to “provide quality basic education for all children, youths and adults by 2015.”

From Institute for International Education Blog.

Higher education institutions, educational organizations, and governments around the world are continuously looking for new ways to engage internationally and to keep their academic institutions relevant and competitive.