Number of Academic Refugees Grows

Aisha Labi’s article in the New York Times (originally Chronicle of Higher Education) makes the case that the dangers facing intellectual dissidents and universities in troubled regions have reached a crisis point. "To a greater extent than in previous wars and conflicts, scholars are now specifically attacked, and centers of learning have gone from being incidental victims to battlegrounds," remarks IIE President and CEO, Allan Goodman, interviewed for the article.