OPEN SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS EVALUATION REPORT

In terms of the geo-political context, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc meant that the countries George Soros had seen as “closed” then had the potential to become “open.” The Open Society Foundations then engaged or initiated various activities to foster open society including: engaging in the expansion of national foundations throughout Eastern Europe and. [...] This resulted in an expansion of the Scholarship Programs’ geopolitical focus (in conjunction with partners like the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office) to engage beyond the former-Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries like Indonesia and Turkey, and the Palestinian and the West Bank territories.32 In terms of organizational context, it is critical to understand the way in which the Open Soc. [...] Working with local communities in more than 100 countries, the Open Society Foundations support justice and human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education.44 A review of 16 ScholarForum publications between 1999–2016 demonstrated the ways that the core issues identified by the Scholarship Programs in the late 1990s traversed the first decade and a half of the 2000s. [...] To ascertain who the survey invitation could be sent to, ahead of the survey invitations being issued, the Reassigned Grants Unit staff sent out an email to the potential email recipients informing them that the Open Society Foundations were conducting a summative evaluation on the work of the Scholarship Programs and that they 18 Open Society Foundations were going to receive an email from the ev. [...] The interview questions sought to provide additional information on the relationship between the Open Society Foundations and the institution, and the ways that hosting Open Society Foundations’ scholarship awardees contributed to internationalization at the host universities.