America's greatest gift to Ukraine's fragile democracy could be the expansion of financed academic exchange programs.
Scholars had warned that his arrest threatened to jeopardize academic exchange programs that China had carefully cultivated with the United States and other Western countries since the late 1970's.
Some programs are directed by the State Department, which last year hired Charlotte Beers, a former Madison Avenue advertising executive, to devise a multimillion-dollar public diplomacy campaign, complete with academic exchange programs and slick public service advertisements, to soften anti-American feelings.
The full opening of the island's universities to students from across the strait last year followed more limited academic exchange programs and the expansion of tourism and direct flights from the Chinese mainland.
Mr. Nusseibeh, who has run Al Quds for 14 years, has created academic exchange programs with Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., as well as with George Washington University in Washington and universities in Israel, Sweden and Canada.
The growing interest in mathematical, theoretical and computational biology will make it possible to expand our interactions through various types of joint academic exchange programs.
As part of a deal, Ireland would expand academic exchange programs and make is easier for qualifying Americans to retire in the European Union nation.
Dawlat Murad, a professor of law at Cairo University who has taken part in academic exchange programs and accompanied Egyptian students on short trips to the U.S., said building walls between the U.S. and the Muslim world would only increase tension and hatred.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico says it will no longer send students to the UA as part of academic-exchange programs because of fears they will be harassed, said Francisco Marmolejo, the UA's assistant vice president for western hemisphere programs.
With the aim of improving healthcare, Harbin Medical University (HMU) and affiliated hospitals in Heilongjiang Province, China have developed an international academic collaborative exchange program in clinical medicine and public health.
Mrs. Sylla, 27, is a program officer in international academic partnerships and exchange programs and Mr. Sylla, 28, is a researcher in international education policy for the academy's Education Policy and Data Center.
