IIE
is pleased to announce the launch of the new Carnegie African Diaspora
Fellows Program, funded by a two-year grant from Carnegie Corporation of
New York (CCNY). African-born
scholars currently living in the United States and Canada and working
in higher education are eligible to sign up now for further information.
The Carnegie Corporation called the scholar-exchange program, offered
by the Institute of International Education
in partnership with Quinnipiac University, "an ambitious project to
build international research partnerships mediated by Africa's
diaspora—in short, to turn the continent's ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain
gain’."
The
100 short-term faculty exchange fellows will conduct collaborative
research in curricula development, co-publish, and supervise graduate
students. IIE will manage and administer
the program, including applications, project requests, and fellowships.
Quinnipiac University will provide strategic direction through Dr. Paul
Tiyambe Zeleza, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of
History at Quinnipiac University, and an Advisory
Council he will chair. Fellows will engage in educational projects
proposed and hosted by faculty at higher education institutions in
countries where Carnegie Corporation operates in sub-Saharan Africa.
For more information and to sign up now to receive application forms and guidelines when they are available in early 2014, visit
http://www.iie.org/africandiaspora.
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Daniel Obst
Deputy Vice President, International Partnerships
IIE
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