Prof Adeboye,
Happy New Year to you and the Family. And thanks for the correction on Falola. Wallahi, I really dont want people to throw eggs at me the next time I am in Austin, Texas! As you may know, Prof Falola is not just a world Scholar in his discipline, he is an Ogbuefi (abi Otunba) in Austin TX! I have been reading him and about him since my Graduate School Days in the Mid-to-late-1980s.
Frankly, I am confident that Prof Falola would muster the necessary resources and expertise to TRULY catalogue African Professors in American Colleges and Universities. I seriously encourage him to do it, if he has the time and space. Such information has serious national policy implications. For example, if American Colleges and Universities realize from published stats that African-born scholars represent 10 to 25 percent of the teaching staff, immigration and hiring policies will be structured to favor the population. There are other implicatins as well, as you would know more than JUI.
BTW, do you envision any immediate prospects (in the foreseeable future) for a street in Austin, TX to be named after our own FALOLA? Pardon me, I am just stretching my imagination this early morning. Take care. JUI (just waking up!)
From: Adeniran Adeboye [mailto:aadeboye@mac.com]
Sent: Mon 03-Jan-11 11:18 PM
To: Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID)
Cc: NigerianID@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: NigerianID | RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)
Happy New Year.
The professor's name is FALOLA. The name FALOLU belongs to an early Oba of Lagos and, now, a street named after him in Surulere.
Adeniran Adeboye
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID) wrote:
It may be apt at this point for Prof Falolu et al to underake a thorough survey and document African Scholars and educators in Collleges and Universities in the Americas and elsewhere outside Africa. We cannot settle for this inadequacy and under-representation that may have serious implications in policies toward Africa and in handling African matters. I consider this matter to be SERIOUS! Take care. JUI
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Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] RE: [NaijaPolitics] RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)I agree with your sentiments below. I remembered my visits to Huston, Baton Rouge, Boston and it was not teaching positions but right through lecturers to Presidents and Vice-Presidents and they were so many. Projecting this across the Nation makes a mockery of data quoted below.OJ
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Subject: [NaijaPolitics] RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)
It is uncertain how this Journal or Institute of International Education defines the colleges and universities surveyed in this report. However, I would seriously dispute the Nigerian data because I can count more than 300 Nigerian Scholars teaching in colleges and universities in just 6 States in the US, not talking of the whole country. In fact, the State of Georgia alone has more than 100 Nigerian scholars teaching in Colleges and Universities. So the published stats are very bogus, spurious and under-stated for whatever purpose the authors had! So no serious-minded person should buy the numbers. Take care. JUI
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Subject: RE: [NIgerianWorldForum] Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)the size of nigerian intellectuals does not reflect that of the country's population.
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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:02:15 -0800
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)
Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents
According to the Institute of International Education, during the 2008-09 academic year there were 113,494 foreign scholars teaching at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Of these, 3,800, or 3.3 percent, were from the African continent.
About 30 percent of these African scholars were from the Arab nations of North Africa, mostly from Egypt. But there were about 2,700 academics from black African nations teaching in the U.S.
There were 441 black academics from Nigeria teaching at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2008-09 academic year. This was the most from any black African nation. Kenya came in a very close second with 440 scholars teaching in the United States.
Other countries sending more than 100 scholars to teach at U.S. institutions of higher learning were Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa.
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