Delegation from 17 US universities to visit India next week
India next week as part of their goal to strengthen India-US collaboration and student and scholar mobility between the two countries. The delegation from the American universities will visit 26 institutions in New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
This visit gains significance in the wake of the recent spate in incidents of attacks on Indian students and those of Indian origin in various parts of the country.
The delegation builds on recent years of US and Indian government-led efforts to partner in pursuit of mutually beneficial strategies.
Last year, the president and prime minister from each country embarked on state visits to the other, affirming the US-India Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership, a media release said.
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«We will have the opportunity to meet with 26 Indian institutions to talk about collaboration, mobility of students and scholars between our two countries and securing and fostering enduring partnerships between institutions,» A. Sarah Ilchman, co-president of Institute of International Education (IIE), told PTI in an interview before leaving for India.
«Indian students and scholars in the US now are at record numbers and it's very exciting to watch close to 270,000 Indian students on US campuses and about 17,000 Indian scholars in the US right now. So, it's an exciting time to be engaging with India and Indian institutions to try to further increase this engagement and collaboration,» she said.
The IIE Leadership Delegation
