IIE to Lead U.S. Higher Education Delegation to India

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The Institute of International Education (IIE) will lead a delegation of high-level administrators from eleven U.S. colleges and universities on a study tour through three different cities in India to strengthen ties in higher education between India and the United States. U.S. participants will meet their counterparts at diverse institutions in India and experience the country’s higher education system. The U.S. educators will spend one week visiting campuses and meeting with higher education officials in Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Delhi from January 29 to February 3 to learn about educational partnership priorities from the Indian perspective.

The group will visit India as part of the International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP), an initiative of IIE’s Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education that seeks to increase international partnerships between higher education institutions. The study tour is an integral part of the yearlong training program that guides U.S. institutions on implementing and sustaining partnerships with higher education institutions in India and aligning their partnerships with other campus-wide internationalization strategies.

IIE launched the partnership program in 2009 with a pilot grant from the Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, but now manages the initiative independently. The 2012 delegation is the second cohort to participate in the program for India. The IAPP initiative has also conducted yearlong partnership training programs focused on Brazil and China, and a separate initiative for U.S.-Indonesia partnerships. The 2012 IAPP India initiative will build on the knowledge base and best practices from the previous partnership delegations.

The U.S. institutions participating in the 2012 program with India were chosen from a competitive candidate pool and represent the breadth of U.S. institutions interested in building ties with India, including large research institutions, liberal arts schools, and community colleges. They are: Fort Hays State University; George Mason University; Northern Illinois University; Queens College, CUNY; Rollins College; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Suffolk University; Thomas College; the University of Kentucky; the University of Montana; and the University of Oregon.

For more information, please visit: www.iie.org/en/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Press-Center/Press-Releases/2012/01-11-2012-IAPP-India-Delegation.