USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Future faculty jobs in African Universities

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From: Voke J. S.
Date: 10 August 2010 19:48
Subject: Fwd: Future faculty jobs in African Universities
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I'll be watching IAUP on this one and hope you will too. Pass it on to other Africans and let's see how we can help get this one to fruition... and done right.

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From: Information on academic career opportunities and programs for Harvard GSAS students and GSAS alumni <ocsacademic-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Future faculty jobs in African Universities
To: "ocsacademic-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu" <ocsacademic-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>

Dear GSAS Students,

 

Here's some news from the July/Aug 2010 issue of the International Educator:

 

Plans to Create 1000 Endowed Chairs in Africa Announced

 

The International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) with David Stangway, founding president of Quest University in Canada, plans to create 1000 endowed academic chairs for African universities.

 

Stangway was formerly president of both the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.  His proposal to create 1000 endowed chairs will cost $500 million dollars over five years.

 

The goal of this effort is to provide African universities with the personnel to design their own research agendas and the skilled faculty to bring them to fruition. Supporters of this effort include leaders in the United Nations, UNESCO, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and a number of associations of universities including the Association of African Universities.

 

 

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Laura Stark Malisheski, Ph.D.

Assistant Director, Graduate Student and Ph.D. Advising

Office of Career Services, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard University

54 Dunster St. Cambridge, MA 02138

 

617-495-2595

www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu

 

"Intellectual and professional development are fundamentally intertwined."

          -  Allan M. Brandt

             Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

 

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