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== History == | == History == | ||
The institute was established in 1919 at the cessation of | The institute was established in 1919 at the cessation of World War I. [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winners [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], president of [[Columbia University]], [[Elihu Root]], former secretary of state, and [[Stephen P. Duggan|Stephen Duggan, Sr.]], professor of political science at the College of the City of New York (and IIE's first president) formed the Institute of International Education with the idea that educational exchange would incite understanding between nations.<ref name="History">{{cite web|url=http://www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/History|title=History|website=Institute of International Education|publisher=Iie.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205165423/http://www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/History|archive-date=2014-02-05|url-status=dead|access-date=2019-05-01}}</ref> | ||
IIE president Stephen Duggan influenced the U.S. government to create a new category of non-immigrant student visas, bypassing post-war quotas set by the [[Immigration Act of 1921]]. In the 1930s, IIE began expanding its activities beyond Europe, opening the first exchanges with the Soviet Union and Latin America. [[Edna Duge]] was director of the IIE's Latin America department in the 1940s. After [[World War II]], the institute facilitated the establishment of what is now [[NAFSA]] and the [[CIEE]]. In the 1940s, IIE aided more than 4,000 U.S. students to study and work on reconstruction projects at European universities devastated by the war.<ref name="History" /> | IIE president Stephen Duggan influenced the U.S. government to create a new category of non-immigrant student visas, bypassing post-war quotas set by the [[Immigration Act of 1921]]. In the 1930s, IIE began expanding its activities beyond Europe, opening the first exchanges with the Soviet Union and Latin America. [[Edna Duge]] was director of the IIE's Latin America department in the 1940s. After [[World War II]], the institute facilitated the establishment of what is now [[NAFSA]] and the [[CIEE]]. In the 1940s, IIE aided more than 4,000 U.S. students to study and work on reconstruction projects at European universities devastated by the war.<ref name="History" /> | ||