Call for Papers: IIENetworker Spring 2015 Issue, "Supporting Higher Education in Crisis, Post-Conflict and Transition"

A prosperous society depends on a thriving academic community. When higher education is threatened, a country’s development can be severely impaired, with lasting consequences for itself and the rest of the world. In the past few years, teaching and learning around the world have been disrupted by a number of emergencies—a Tsunami in Japan, a typhoon in the Philippines, and today, an Ebola outbreak in Liberia. In addition, ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq now threatens the existence a once-thriving higher education sector in both countries, and it has produced a refugee population with an unprecedented number of highly educated students and scholars. 

The purpose of this issue of the IIENetworker magazine is to highlight efforts by universities and other institutions to respond to and help support higher education communities and academics in crisis-affected areas. Articles will describe these efforts, share lessons learned, and explore novel challenges posed by current global developments. Submissions should discuss one or more of the following topics:

• Supporting refugee, displaced, and threatened students, faculty, and scholars (providing scholarships and resources, hosting, assisting those without proper status, working with institutions near refugee populations).
• Providing emergency support during and after natural disasters or health crises (providing short or long-term support including loans and financial assistance where support has been interrupted, counseling, support services, planning for longer term needs). 
• Rebuilding academic communities after crisis (capacity building, university partnerships, research collaboration, training and expertise, exchange programs, technology).

We encourage contributions from professionals outside the strictly higher education structure, including those in the private and government sectors, as well as contributions from outside the United States. Articles should be approximately 1200 words. 

 

Please let us know as soon as possible if you plan to submit. The submission deadline for completed articles is November 10, 2014. You will be notified as soon as a publication decision is made. 

 

If you are interested in submitting an article for the spring 2014 issue of IIENetworker, please address all inquiries to Jon Grosh at jgrosh@iie.org. For more information on IIENetworker, please visit: www.iie.org/iienetworker.