RWU offers scholarships to Syrian student refugees

ROGER WILLIAMS University will offer four scholarships to students from Syria, joining a global network of more than 60 colleges, universities and organizations helping displaced students resume their studies in safety.
ROGER WILLIAMS University will offer four scholarships to students from Syria, joining a global network of more than 60 colleges, universities and organizations helping displaced students resume their studies in safety.

BRISTOL – Four Syrian refugee students will receive full tuition scholarships to attend Roger Williams University as it joins the Institute for International Education’s Syria Consortium, according to a statement by the school on Tuesday.

The announcement by RWU came a day before President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders which will temporarily ban refugees and suspend visas held by Syrian nationals as well as immigrants from six additional Middle Eastern and African countries, according to Reuters.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday: “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!”

Scholarships for two graduate-level architecture students and two law school students will be awarded by RWU to qualified students of Syrian descent looking to complete their studies and enter the workforce in their home country.

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Kate A. Greene, RWU’s director of international program development, said RWU “strives to be the university the world needs now.”

Now counted among more than 60 institutions of higher education around the world which have committed to support Syrian students, Greene added: “We recognize the unprecedented tragedy of the Syrian conflict and the vital role of higher education in charting a course to recovery, reconciliation and reconstruction of Syria.”

Through its Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis, the IIE, a nonprofit organization founded in 1919, has helped support more than 500 students whose education was interrupted when violence in Syria commenced in 2011.

RWU estimates that the total number of students affected by the violence who were forced to terminate their studies is approximately 200,000.

IIE President Allan E. Goodman thanked RWU for its commitment to aiding Syrians in need.

“An investment in education is a long-term investment in peace,” he said.

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