CIE was awarded a $1 million sub-contract from AMIDEAST, with USAID West Bank & Gaza funding, to help with the reform of teacher education in the West Bank and Gaza. The project, Leadership and Teacher Development, is a comprehensive education reform initiative that supports the Ministry of Education's national effort in teacher development. The overall goal is to improve the quality of education through a comprehensive approach to leadership and teacher development, concentrating on in-service teachers in grades 5-10, principals, and supervisors, and the macro policy context.
CIE received a contract from the 
The graduation ceremony for the first cohort of Biomedical Equipment Technology (BMET) associate degree program was held at Kabul University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) on September 11, 2018.
In fall of 2017, three new Associate Degree programs were initiated. The new associate degrees in Business Administration and Business Accounting are located at the universities in Balkh, Herat, and Nangarhar provinces. A total of 93 students (23 females) are now enrolled in these three programs. A total of 21 instructors have been identified and prepared to teach in these programs. 
CIE assisted by the Center for Educational Assessment at UMass Amherst was contracted to provide evaluation services for Valorisation de la Scolarisation de la Fille (VAS-Y Fille) project to increase girls’ access to education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Bjorn Nordtveit is the Prinicipal Investigator (PI), responsible for the qualitative analysis and Jennifer Randall is the CoPI, responsible for the quantitative analysis, of the project.
UMass partners with Shaeed Rabani Education University in Kabul to start a Master's degree. Pictured left is the first cohort of students for the degree program.
The Center for International Education is part of a team working with community college administrators from Pakistan to help them develop a better understanding of community colleges in the US and apply that knowledge to their own institutions in Pakistan.
The Center for International Education is continuing its work with the higher education system in Afghanistan as the lead technical partner for FHI 360 on a USAID’s third largest higher education project in the world - University Support and Workforce Development program (USWDP), a $92 million five-year project (2014-2019)