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Students in the Institute's CIRSPRC (Committee on International Relations with the People's Republic of China) program at Drake University in Des Moines in 1983.
The RBF began supporting the Institute of International Education (IIE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing international education and access to education worldwide, as early as 1950. IIE had been founded in 1919, in the aftermath of World War I, on the premise that fostering international educational exchange would build cross-cultural understanding and promote peace. In the late 1970s, the RBF helped the IIE establish its South African Education Program, a cooperative venture by U.S. foundations, corporations, universities, and USAID to prepare black South Africans for a post-apartheid future. In the 1980s, the RBF made grants to the Institute’s new educational advising program in China and to arts programs it acquired after a merger with Arts International.
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Alistair Cooke, Chairman of Arts International and Richard M. Krasno, President of IIE, at Arts International in 1986.
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From left: Zheng Shiping, Zhou Ming, Huang Geng, Chen An, students in the CIRSPRC program, take a break from their studies at Yale University’s Political Science Department in 1986.
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Proposed new headquarters for the Institute of International Education across from the United Nations in New York City, 1960s, exact date unknown.
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