IIE to Lead Higher Education Delegation to Brazil

Leaders from the Institute of International Education will travel to Brazil from May 5-10 with a high-level delegation of fifteen U.S. institutions to meet with potential partner campuses and learn about Brazilian higher education. The study tour is the centerpiece of IIE's year-long International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP) focusing on Brazil. This timely visit comes at an exciting moment in U.S. – Brazil academic relations, with the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program in full swing and a major academic collaboration with Harvard and MIT in the works, following an unprecedented visit to Boston by Brazil’s president Dilma Roussef last year to sign agreements with these two campuses. 

The U.S. campuses who will take part in the IIE delegation to Brazil in May are: Arizona State University, Ball State University, California State University – Long Beach, Central College, Fort Hays State University, Howard University, Indian Hills Community College, Morgan State University, Parsons - The New School for Design, Savannah State University, SUNY Plattsburgh, The University of Tulsa, Washington and Jefferson College, Webster University, and Western Michigan University. 

IIE will lead the delegation of U.S. educators to São Paulo, Campinas, Recife, Salvador, and Brasília to visit public and private higher education institutions and meet with officials from the Fulbright Commission and other international organizations, as well as Brazil’s Ministry of Education, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). In addition, the delegation will partake in several high-level policy events, including a U.S.-Brazil Partnerships Roundtable in São Paulo. This roundtable discussion will include representatives of Brazilian higher education institutions from across the country, and will focus on the challenges and opportunities in expanding U.S.-Brazil educational relations. 

Learn more: www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Press-Center/Press-Releases/2013/04-25-2013-IAPP-Brazil-Delegation.