2005
The Institute celebrates 85 years of excellence in educating future leaders from the United States and around the world. |
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2002
Establishes Global Development Center in Washington DC to oversee developing country programs. |
2001
Convenes first Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Summer Institute, bringing together 50 of the world's outstanding university students from 23 countries. |
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2000
Helps launch the Ford Foundation's International Fellowships Program, a supported organization within IIE that seeks to provide international exchange opportunities for candidates from communities that lack access to higher education.
Assists the GE Fund to establish an Internet-based application and selection process for GE's worldwide children of employee scholarships. |
1999
Launches an international annual competition for Lucent Technologies Foundation, to select 100 Lucent Global Science Scholars, who gather each summer to meet with Bell Labs scientists and build a global network of future leaders in the field of information technology. |
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1998
Designs and implements ASIA-Help, an emergency loan program supported by the Freeman Foundation, to help affected Asian students complete their US degrees during a period of major financial crises in many of their home countries. |
1996
Selected by USIA to house the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the agency that administers the Fulbright Senior Scholars Program. |
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1995
Brings Asian and US women leaders of NGOs together for international networking and professional development through its newly developed Elisabeth Luce Moore Leadership Program for Chinese Women. |
1993
Selected for the administration of the undergraduate portion of the new National Security Education Program, aimed at strengthening the international competence of US citizens. |
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1992
Chosen to administer new US government initiatives, including a USAID-funded program for MBA students to learn and serve in developing countries. |
1991
With the collapse of communism, IIE develops the East Central Europe Higher Education Information Exchange, and produces its first publication appropriately named Raising the Curtain. |
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1990
Establishes an office in Budapest, Hungary. |
1989
With support from the Ford Foundation, Provides emergency financial assistance to outstanding students and faculty from China on US campuses. |
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1987
Arts International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality and increasing the quantity of international exchanges in the literary, performing, and visual arts, merges into IIE. |
1986
IIE and the Soviet Ministry of Education sign a letter of intent to negotiate an agreement for an exchange of US and USSR undergraduates. The following year, the first US-USSR student exchange takes place under joint sponsorship of the Institute and the Soviet State Committee for Public Education. |
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1985
Opens an educational advising office in Guangzhou, China. |
1984
Begins administering the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Program, a major training initiative of USAID aimed at training newly-independent Zimbabweans in key development fields. |
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1983
The International Human Rights Internship Program becomes part of IIE, arranging international training for young human rights activists, and later focusing on professional development for staff of human rights organizations in developing countries. |
1982
With growing ties to Indonesia, IIE announces that it will open a new office in Jakarta. |
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1981
Initiates the Conventional Energy Training Project, on behalf of USAID, to meet the need for well-trained energy experts in less-developed nations. |
1980
Develops the Register for International Service in Education (RISE) and the International Faculty Lecture Bureau, that respectively provides universities in less developed nations with a more systematic way of gaining access to the resource of US faculty, and enables a broader range of American institutions to benefit from the resource of visiting foreign faculty.
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1979
Designed and implemented the U.S Government's Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program for mid-career professionals
Created the South African Education Program to help prepare black South Africans for leadership in a post-apartheid future
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1978
Begins developing the South African Education Program (SAEP) to help prepare black South Africans for leadership in a post-apartheid future, with support from US corporations and universities. Through SAEP nearly 1,600 Black South Africans earn degrees and many return to hold key positions in South Africa. |
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1977
Co-hosts the US-Arab Educator's Conference with a Saudi Arabian University, to explore ways of increasing contact between educational leaders from the US and the Arab world. Created the South African Education Program to help prepare black South Africans for leadership in a post-apartheid future
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1976
Former Senator J. William Fulbright serves as IIE's Special Representative abroad.
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1974
IIE is asked to administer the Venezuelan Government's "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" Scholarship Program, assisting nearly 4,000 young Venezuelans, many from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Works with AIG's Starr Foundation to begin the international Starr Scholarship Program for American International (Employees') Children Overseas.
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1973
Starts administering the ITT International Fellowship Program, for both US and foreign nationals. The program is the largest bilateral exchange program ever sponsored by a corporation, with nearly 800 graduate students participating over 17 years.
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1972
Begins arranging US visits for distinguished foreigners participating in USIA's International Visitors (IV) Program.
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1971
Under Project City Streets, IIE provides exchange opportunities for members of US minority groups. Programs are developed for the Puerto Rican community of New York City and summer study opportunities are made available for Native American leaders to travel to Israel and focus on the kibbutz system and small scale industry in arid regions.
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1970
Sponsors entrants in the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where IIE grantee Garrick Ohlsson becomes the first American ever to win first prize.
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1968
Establishes a Cultural Contacts Committee, giving out more than 4,000 tickets for IIE grantees to attend cultural events in the New York area.
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1967
The Institute opens offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong to meet the growing needs of international education in those areas.
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1966
Develops a Host Family Program whereby foreign students coming to the US are assigned to host families, which agree to offer hospitality for the year.
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1965
Initiates 26 new fellowship programs sponsored by foundations or corporations including the Chrysler Corporation, the Xerox Corporation, and Sankei Shimbun (the first IIE program sponsored by a Japanese Corporation).
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1964
New IIE headquarters erected on United Nations Plaza with special contributions of $2,500,000. Alvar Aalto, the prominent Finnish architect, designs the Kaufmann Conference Center on the 12th Floor.
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1963
Applicant Information Service launched by IIE in overseas offices, providing admissions officers in US colleges and universities with first-hand information about non-sponsored foreign applicants. Cooperative Service in Summer Employment and Practical Training for Foreign Students also developed to coordinate the efforts of community organizations in finding summer jobs for foreign students.
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1959
Young Artists Project launched by newly created IIE Arts Division with a Ford Foundation grant. The program brings young foreign talents in creative arts to the US for study, travel, and observation.
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1958
IIE President goes to Moscow to develop exchanges between Russians and Americans. IIE establishes a Department for East-West Exchanges.
With support from the Carnegie Corporation, IIE launches the Council on Higher Education in the American Republics, a series of meetings among higher education leaders in the Americas.
The same year it publishes the Directory of International Scholarships in the Arts, IIE and the Smithsonian Institution sponsor a nationwide tour of Fulbright painters'artwork, which opens at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Van Cliburn, selected by IIE's Music Advisory Committee to compete in Russian music competition, wins first prize.
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1957
Surveys 1,298 colleges and universities on the subject of undergraduate study abroad, and publishes the findings in Foreign Study for US Undergraduates, which continue as the annual publications "Academic Year Abroad" and "Short Term Study Abroad."
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1956
Comes to the aid of Hungarian refugee students, as more than seven hundred freedom fighters receive scholarships to US colleges and universities.
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1954
Publishes first annual survey of international students as Open Doors, a publication which, continued annually, is used widely by the academic community, government, and the media as the most authoritative source of data on international mobility.
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1952
The Institute begins to administer Ford Foundation Grants to train specialists and leaders in emerging nations.
Initiates the International Music Competition Project enabling young American musicians to enter international competitions abroad. The project develops after IIE-selected pianist Leon Fleischer becomes the first American to win top prize in the Queen Elizabeth competition in Belgium.
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1951
Regional Offices in Chicago, Houston, Denver, and San Francisco open, with support from the Ford Foundation..
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1948
The first UNESCO Fellows, foreign specialists brought to the US for study, are placed and counseled by IIE.
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1947
IIE and CIES asked by US Government to administer the Fulbright Educational Exchange Program.
Arranges for more than 4,000 Americans to go to Europe to aid in reconstruction.
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1946
Senator J. William Fulbright's proposal to use proceeds from the sale of war surplus to finance educational exchange becomes law.
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1943
First IIE regional bureau opened in Washington, DC as a center of information on international educational exchange.
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1942
Secures aid for Chinese students unable to return home because of the war.
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1941
First government-sponsored exchange programs undertaken by IIE, focusing on Latin America.
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1939
3,000 attend English classes in Buenos Aires at Institute set up by returnees from IIE exchange visit.
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1936
American-Chinese Student Exchange established by the Institute, making it the first IIE study abroad opportunity for Americans in Asia.
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1935
Created the framework for Latin America-U.S. student and faculty exchanges through the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations
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1934
Sponsors a Summer Institute in Soviet Civilization at Moscow University for American students.
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1933
Establishes the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, which saves over 300 European scholars from the Holocaust.
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1932
Edward R. Murrow joins the Institute as Assistant Director.
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1930
Twenty American students receive grants to study at the Institute of Art and Archaeology in Paris in the first arts exchange program developed by the Institute.
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1929
Opens Latin American Division and, at the request of the Pan American Union, plans a US tour for 22 Argentine scholars.
Administers more than 250 Fellowships worth almost a quarter of a million dollars.
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1927
Organizes a committee to supervise Junior Year Abroad scholarships and encourages the expansion of the Junior Year Abroad.
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1924
Student Third Class passage installed by steamship lines as a result of IIE requests.
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1923
Inaugurates a system of international debates between the US and Great Britain, inviting debating teams from Oxford and Cambridge and circuiting them among American and Canadian colleges and universities.
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1922
First IIE Reciprocal Student Exchange Program initiated between the US and Czechoslovakia.
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1921
Designs and lobbies for the creation of a student visa, as US legislation begins to foreclose other channels of access for foreign students.
Sends out a questionnaire to US academic institutions in a first attempt to standardize the assessment of incoming foreign students.
Helps 300 stranded Russian students obtain scholarships or employment.
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1919
The Institute of International Education is established with a $30,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, and founded by Stephen P. Duggan, professor at City College of New York; Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University and Nobel Prize winner; and Elihu Root, former Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner. In the aftermath of World War I, the Institute's founders believed that there could be no lasting peace without greater understanding between nations-and that international educational exchange formed the strongest basis for fostering such understanding. In its opening year, IIE develops its first exchange program for American professors to teach in European Universities.
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