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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:02:58 -0500 From: Afr Studies Assn <wiley@msu.edu> Subject: FYI: ASA Special Colloq: African Higher Education This message was originally submitted by wiley@MSU.EDU to the H-HAUSA list From African Studies Association Annual Meeting Preliminary Program Washington, DC, December 5-8, 2002 COLLOQUIUM ON AFRICAN AND NORTH AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION: NEW PARTNERSHIPS, NEW DIRECTIONS Sponsored by the ASA Board of Directors The project is generously supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. (See project description below.) Three Panels: Challenges Facing Higher Education in Africa Friday, December 6, 8:30 am-10:30 am External Support to Higher Education in Africa: Hopes, Frustrations, and Challenges Saturday, December 7, 9:00 am-11:00 am Higher Education Partnerships: Problems and Prospect Saturday, December 7, 11:15 am-1:15 pm (III-H13) Challenges Facing Higher Education in Africa Friday, Dec. 6, 8:30a.m.-10:30a.m. Chair: Damtew Teferra, Boston College Akilagpa Sawyerr, Association of African Universities, "Challenges Facing Higher Education in Africa" Discussants: Mamadou Diouf, University of Michigan; Ebrima Sall, Nordic Africa Institute-Uppsala; William Saint, World Bank; Mala Singh, Department of Education, South Africa (VII-H14) External Support to Higher Education in Africa: Hopes, Frustrations, and Challenges ( Saturday, Dec. 7, 9:00a.m.-11:00a.m. Chair: N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University Paper by Joel Samoff, Stanford University and Bidemi Carrol, Stanford University, "External Support to Higher Education in Africa: Hopes, Frustrations, and Challenges" Discussants: Amina Mama, University of Cape Town; Nahas Angula, Minister of Higher Education, Training, and Employment Creation, Namibia; David Court, The Rockefeller Foundation and World Bank; Michael Chege, University of Florida. (VIII-H15) Colloquium: Higher Education Partnerships: Problems and Prospects Saturday, Dec. 7, 11:15a.m.-1:15p.m. Chair: Ronald Kassimir, Social Science Research Council-New York Narciso Matos, Carnegie Corporation Teboho Moja, New York University Joyce Lewinger Moock, The Rockefeller Foundation David Wiley, Michigan State University Description of the ASA Project The African Studies Association received funding in 2001 from the Rockefeller Foundation to support the planning stages of a new initiative on higher education in Africa. The ASA initiative has two principal aims: to stimulate new intellectual debate and research on the development of higher education in Africa, and to take practical steps toward improved academic partnerships in which African scholars and practitioners set the agenda and foreign researchers work with them to meet new education challenges in both Africa and the U.S. The Rockefeller grant supports several related activities, including a planning workshop in the Spring of 2002, a Colloquium on African and North American Higher Education: New Partnerships, New Directions at this Annual Meeting, and the development of a major web portal on Resources on African Higher Education and North American Partnerships. Two papers have been commissioned for the December Colloquium. One, to be prepared by Dr. Akilagpa Sawyerr, former Rector of the University of Ghana at Legon and Research Director of the Association of African Universities, will focus on Major Challenges Facing the Development of African Higher Education. The second, to be prepared by Joel Samoff and Bidemi Carrol (Stanford University), will address higher education in Africa through the prisms of external support and academic partnerships. To assist the development of those papers, and especially to provide feedback and suggestions on themes, orientations, and issues, the authors presented overviews of their work at a workshop held at Rutgers University, April 5-6, 2002. Along with the authors, participants in the workshop included members of the advisory committee for this initiative, the African Studies Association Board of Directors, and interested colleagues from Rutgers University. Following the April workshop, the African Studies Association Board of Directors decided to make higher education in Africa a priority focus over the next several years. To sustain and build on the momentum developed by this year's activities, the ASA expects to explore possibilities for commissioning a second set of focused papers, to set the theme of higher education in Africa for a future annual meeting, and to consider other strategies for encouraging and fostering exchanges and partnerships among U.S. and African institutions. --
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