Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education

The Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), popularly known as the Bahá'í Open University, is a university in Iran designed and managed by the Bahá'í community for Iranian Bahá'ís as a Bahá'í school for those who are excluded from access to higher education in their country. Founded in 1987 and offering 17-degree programs, the BIHE offers academic programs of learning and research in the sciences, the social sciences and the arts. In 2011 there were 475 volunteer faculty that includes accredited professors from universities outside Iran who assist as researchers, teachers and consultants.

Context

Bahá'ís value education highly. By 1973 the Bahá’ís in Iran were the first to have achieved a literacy rate of 100 per cent among women under the age of 40, despite the national literacy rate of 15 per cent.[1]

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the new Islamic government fired Bahá'í professors from all universities and expelled Bahá'í students.[2] In 2007 the government established a new university admission system where only individuals who identified themselves with one of the four religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism – recognized by the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, were given admission[3] though systematic expulsion of students and faculty became clear to Bahá'ís by 1983.[4]

The BIHE was established in 1987 to allow Bahá'í youth an opportunity to obtain a university-level education. The New York Times called it "an elaborate act of communal self-preservation."[5] Initially, Muslim[6] and Bahá'í teachers and professionals taught the courses primarily through correspondence;[7] more recently, BIHE also offered a number of courses online.[8]

The student population in 1998 is reported to have had 900 students with ten subjects at the Bachelor's level.[7] 2012 estimates are of 50,000 students having gone through the courses.[9]

Curriculum

BIHE offers Bachelor, Graduate and Associate degrees in the following subjects administered as five university "departments":[10]

The Institute offers more than 700 courses each term, with many of them being offered online. The BIHE was the first Iranian member of the Open Courseware Consortium[11] and BIHE developed and implemented a project through them out of MIT.[12]

Graduates

BIHE graduates have gone on to other work in a number of areas academic and otherwise.

Some of the papers published by students have been in academic subjects like distance learning technologies,[13][14] materials science,[15][16] biology,[17] and computer science[12][18][19] and civil engineering.[20]

At least one of the graduates is a member of the arrested leadership in Iran among the Bahá'ís.[21]

The effectiveness of BIHE to deliver curricula has been studied, finding it to be a "social space" that enables Bahá'í students and staff to remain academically and socially engaged; to bond and share with peers and colleagues equally suffering from religious persecution; and to live up to principles such as learning, community service, and resistance in times of socio-political marginalization[22] as well surviving because of international support, community sacrifices, and individual resiliency.[23]

According to BIHE, graduates of its course work have been accepted at more than 65 different university graduate programs outside Iran.[24]

Some universities have begun to accept BIHE credit[25] while accreditation with International Association of Universities is still lacking with BIHE as well as a transcript evaluation from one of the Academic Evaluation Services.[26][27] The University of New Mexico stopped taking BIHE credit in 2010 as part of a general review and not directed specifically at BIHE.[28] Meanwhile, UCLA and Columbia have been accepting students who have studied at the BIHE.[29]

Faculty

In 2011 the 475 volunteer faculty is composed in significant part by professionals who once held teaching positions at government-run universities in Iran but lost their jobs because of affiliation with the Bahá'í Faith. Professors are responsible for the development and implementation of the university curriculum which now consists of 32-degree programs (5 associate,17 undergraduate and 10 graduate).[30]

As the online capabilities of the BIHE expand, so too does its Affiliated Global Faculty (AGF), a body of volunteer professors with doctoral degrees who work and reside outside Iran. The Affiliated Global Faculty was created in response to the emerging needs of the BIHE including increasing numbers of courses offered in English and the desire to achieve internationally accepted educational standards. Some faculty have publicly listed their affiliation.[31]

Locations

Courses at the university were originally offered principally via correspondence; for specialized scientific or technical courses small groups assembled in private homes. After some time, the university was able to establish a few laboratories in privately owned commercial buildings near and in Tehran. Due to the increasing number of courses being offered online, students are now able to participate in classes via the internet.

Raids

Between 1987 and 2005 the Iranian authorities closed down the university several times[2] as part of the pattern of suppressing the Bahá'í community.[32] Between September 30 and October 3, 1998[33] members of the Iranian Government's intelligence agency, the Ministry of Information, started a massive crackdown, when officials raided over 500 Bahá'í homes, and confiscated teaching materials and arrested more than 30 faculty members.[7][34]

Most of those who were arrested were released soon afterwards, but four were given prison sentence ranging from three to 10 years. The faculty members who were arrested were asked to sign a document declaring that BIHE had ceased to exist as of September 29, and that they would no longer cooperate with it, but all refused to sign the declaration.

A second raid of BIHE educators took place on May 22, 2011. Officials from the Ministry of Intelligence entered the homes of at least 30 of the academic staff of the BIHE, seizing books, computers and personal effects. A total of 16 educators were arrested. Some of those arrested were transferred to Evin prison. The buildings used as laboratories and for academic purposes in Tehran have also been closed. The searches or arrests took place in Tehran, Zahedan, Sari, Isfahan and Shiraz.[35] According to CNN, nine of those arrested have since been released.[36]

The Iran Daily, an official government newspaper, reported that "The BIHE university was a cover for the propagation of the Baha'i faith and was used to trap citizens in the Baha'i spy network and to gather information from within the county". It stated that ""Authorities have discovered Baha'i propaganda, CDs and books in the possession of those who have been arrested."[36] Spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations said the raids on BIHE were because it "systematically controlled activities of cult members, and ... interfered in their private, social and economic lives." He also said the organization had the aim of "entrapping" non-Baha'is, in order to eventually create "an extremist cult movement."[37] See Political accusations against the Baha'i Faith.

Teachers and staff of the BIHE have vowed to continue the BIHE's activities.[38][39]

Developing a response

Following the 1990s raids the Canadian Association of University Teachers condemned them.[40]

Since then there has been a further expansion and diversity of objections to these raids and the attempts of the Iranian government to exclude Bahá'ís from high education. Christian Solidarity Worldwide[41] and the Union of Jewish Students[42] urged Iran to end its discriminatory educational policies of Bahá'ís. An international set of 43 academic theologians and philosophers – of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds – signed an open letter, published in The Daily Telegraph (UK), and reported in the Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) condemning the recent attacks.[43] A petition in India has garnered support from members of Judicial, Executive and Legislative branches of government, academics, religious leaders, NGOs and business leaders.[44] Another in the States garnered support from 48 Deans and Senior Vice-Presidents of American medical schools.[45] The chief signatory – Dr. Philip Pizzo, Dean of Stanford University’s School of Medicine – helped collect the signatures at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Council of Medical School Deans. On March 20, the American Physical Society Committee on International Freedom of Scientists reiterated its 2010 support[46] for Bahá'í students not being denied education in requesting the arrested lectures be released.[47]

Education Under Fire

Following developments reported on October 13, 2011, by the UN Secretary General with a report on "The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran",[48] specifically citing the raids,[49][50] Nobel Laureates Desmond Tutu and José Ramos-Horta wrote an open letter calling for the immediate release of the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education professors and other initiatives[6] which is part of a program of action that is called Education Under Fire (EUF).

Single Arrow Productions produced a 30-minute documentary by the same title, Education Under Fire.[51] This documentary traces the Islamic Republic of Iran's three-decade-long policy of denying the members of its Bahá´í community basic human rights including the right to attend any institution of higher education. It is endorsed by Amnesty International.[52] The documentary and laureates’ letter together form part of university and community activities to address the situation. The campaign’s premiere event showing the documentary was co-hosted by faculty from Columbia University, Duke University, and Eastern Kentucky University, as well as Amnesty International and the director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, on October 28, 2011.[53][54] A "successful" Kickstarter campaign associated with the documentary was completed[55] and Iran Human Rights held a podcast on the initiative in November 2011.[56]

The documentary was shown at the mid-February 2012 12th Annual Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival[57] and the 10th Annual University of San Francisco Film Festival in late March.[58]

Goals

The campaign's stated goals are:[6]

Head administrators of Wheelock, Wheaton Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst[59] as well as faculty from various Canadian[60] and Australian[61] colleges and universities have signed letters in support of the cause of the campaign which have been released to the public. Screenings of the documentary often with discussions and action agenda items for the campaign have been held or are scheduled for 2012 at a wide number of universities and colleges in the United States,[62] Canada,[63] and Italy.[64] The documentary was also shown at a public library in Shrewsbury, New Jersey,[65] and City Hall at Stratford, Ontario[66] and the Ohio Commission on Hispanic / Latino Affairs hosted an event in Columbus Ohio.[67] The American Friends Service Committee supported two screenings – one at the DePaul University Art Museum, and the other at Northeastern Illinois University's Student Union.[68] David Docherty, President of Mount Royal University recommended the documentary.[69] A Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention contributor spoke at a screening and discussion in Toronto on the campaign and situation in Iran.[70] The Human Rights, Social Justice and Canadian Complicity with Torture – Criminology and Human Rights Symposium of St. Thomas University in March 2012 hosted a screening and discussion.[71]

The campaign has also received televised local news coverage in New York (WNBC),[72] Miami (WTVJ)[73] as well as Houston community radio (KPFT).[74]

Can you solve this?

Another response to the situation was using QR codes for the website "Can you solve this?" (can-you-solve-this.org) It is an online email campaign system to send letters about the situation to various leaders in several countries[75] was started in August 2011.[76] A related website claims it has sent over 1,700 letters[77] with coverage from the Mashable website.[78] Promoted on the website bahairights.org, the Muslim Network for Baha'i Rights, it is a project by Mideast Youth.[79]

See also

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