New Roles for U.S. Universities in Latin America

The Rockefeller Institute Bulletin highlights an important chapter on roles for U.S. Universities in Latin America in the new IIE-AIFS Foundation book Latin America’s New Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Government, and International Collaboration. 

In the book, leading scholars from Latin America and the U.S. (including the Rockefeller Institute’s Jason Lane) explore factors that have been catalysts for higher education reforms such as increased access and equity, emphasis on international study, and investment by foreign universities and corporations. 

Other chapters in the book include: 

• Training the 21st Century Knowledge Workers: Higher Education and Workforce Development in Latin America
• Building Knowledge-based Economies in Latin America: The Role of National Study Abroad Scholarship Programs
• Trends in Student and Academic Mobility: From "Brain Drain" to "Brain Gain" in Latin America
• Toward 100,000 Strong: Western Hemisphere Academic Exchanges
• Academic Research and Advanced Training: Building up Research Universities in Brazil

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