Universities in Iraq are Caught in the Conflict

Jim Miller, Director of the Iraq Scholar Rescue Project of IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund, was interviewed for an article in today’s Inside Higher Ed about universities under threat in Iraq during recent conflicts between Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants and Iraqi government forces. In the last two weeks, IIE has received applications from 17 Iraqi scholars seeking temporary visiting lecture posts abroad—"and that’s just the ones who have been able to reach us," Miller said. The Scholar Rescue Fund has more than 250 fellowship grantees there.