Increased violence in Syria and Iraq has altered the operation of the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund, formed in 2002 to help scholars threatened due to their sometimes-dissident work. Today the Fund is responding to scholars affected by civil conflict and persecuted for their ethnicity, gender, or religion. — PassBlue

Open Educational Resources (OER) Foundation, headquartered in New Zealand, aims to widen access to affordable education through an "open education" model, which advocates argue, is the only way to meet a rapidly growing demand for tertiary education. — University World News

A new study finds that international exchange participants do not become less nationalistic, as widely assumed. They do however express it in a more "enlightened" manner. — Washington Post