Two representatives from Iraq visited campus July 10 as part of a larger visit to the United States to research potential partners for a scholarship program that sends young Iraqis overseas for a college education.
Maha K. Kareem and. Ihsan Alwan Muhsin Al-Sweidi work with the Iraq Scholarship Initiative under the auspices of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. This new scholarship will by Fall 2010 send 10,000 Iraqi ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ and graduate students outside Iraq to continue their higher education.
The program’s goal is to rebuild Iraq’s own higher education system by developing a new base of faculty. Woody Pelton of the International Centre met Maha Kareem on his visit to Iraq in January 2009 as part of a delegation of university officials invited for the inauguration of this scholarship program.