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Far From Home, Afghan Students Try to Put Down Roots on an American Campus

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Atkinson, University of Delaware Two years after they escaped Afghanistan, students found themselves between worlds. Afghan students try to put down roots on an American campus. By Karin Fischer Kathy F.

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Record demand for scholar charity in 90-year history

The PIE News

Cara says that conflicts in Ukraine and the situation in areas such as the Middle East, Sudan and Afghanistan have added to demand from academics fleeing persecution. Afghanistan and Ukraine, in addition to countries in Asia and Africa, have been more represented since 2022, Wordsworth has previously said.

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Afghan women offered chance to continue learning

The PIE News

FutureLearn announced in December it would offer women from Afghanistan free access to over 1,200 courses on its digital learning platform for the duration of the ban. Joybrato Mukherjee, DAAD president, said that the current situation is “catastrophic” for the people of Afghanistan.

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Retired Navy Vice Admiral to Lead Texas Southern

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was the head of the Naval Legal Service Command, legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and commander of NATO Rule of Law Field Support, Afghanistan. I have worked with him on some of the most complex issues in the world. He served under six U.S. The sky is the limit.”

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Bard College to support 425 refugee students

The PIE News

“What Bard and OSUN do is most emphatically not ‘do-gooderism’ – we are working with some of the most talented young people in the world who enhance learning of all of our students,” he said. A report released in December noted that exact data on how many students holding refugee status in the US is missing.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

“Maybe there is a complacency that’s kicking in with respect to Afghanistan, now that we’re more than a year beyond August 2021,” he said. “We also know with the emergence of Ukraine, Afghanistan was already becoming old news soon after it began. He said that while U.S. It was a privilege to teach them.”

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Taliban and Counterterrorism: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

and the world still face problems after a long conflict in Afghanistan. Today on the Academic Minute : Andrew Mines, research fellow at George Washington University, explores why the U.S. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: