Article: Reflections on the Recent U.S. Delegation to India

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A guest article for the IIE-India newsletter by Supriya Baily, Assistant Professor, George Mason University, recounts her experience on the recently concluded International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP) delegation to India. Through the IAPP program, which is a yearlong program of IIE’s Center for International Partnerships, U.S. institutions completed a weeklong study tour of institutions in India with the goal of developing partnerships.

As Dr. Baily states: "Hearing about the statistics made the most compelling case for partnering with Indian universities and colleges—30 percent of the population are under 25 years of age, college enrollment is over capacity and acceptance rates are low (in some cases just 0.05% accepted from those who applied). These figures make a forceful case for continued innovation and while it was exciting to see how rapidly Indian university administrators and faculty are changing, it was also stimulating to see how much scope and capacity there is for cross-national collaborations—across research, teaching and student exchange."
To read the full article, please visit: http://enewsiieindia.org/guest.html#Reflections. For more information about the International Academic Partnership Program, visit www.iie.org/iapp.