Team Blitz India
AHIGH-power delegation of 31 provosts, vice provosts, deans, and other leaders from 17 top American universities are visiting India 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 of attacks on Indian students and those of Indian origin in various parts of the US.
The delegation builds on recent years of US and Indian government-led efforts to partner in pursuit of mutually beneficial strategies.
“We will have the opportunity to talk about collaboration, mobility of students and scholars between our two countries and securing and fostering enduring partnerships between institutions,” A. Sarah Ilchman, copresident of Institute of International Education (IIE), said.
“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.
Apart from meeting Indian Government officials, the delegates will visit US consulates, the Indian School of Business, IIT Hyderabad, Mahindra University, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, and Somaiya Vidyavihar University.
