USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Formal Launch Announcement

Dear Dr. Aluko,

Thank you very much for your interest in the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (ADF) Program, administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).  We are pleased to announce the opening of the application and project request system, which you can find at https://www.onlineapplicationportal.com/adf.   We have also published project request guidelines available on our site and within the online project request system to assist you in completing the project request.  You can find all of these materials online at http://www.iie.org/Programs/Carnegie-African-Diaspora-Fellows-Program. 

For your convenience, we have also made available a Microsoft Word version of the project request system, so that you can collaborate with colleagues at your institution or in the U.S. and Canada before logging in and submitting a project online.  This form is attached here.  Please note that you will have to submit the project online in order request an African Diaspora Fellow.              

As a reminder, the types of project activities that can be requested by an African host institution are:

• Curriculum co-development,
• Research collaboration, and
• Graduate student mentoring and training.

Projects can be conducted in the African host country for between two weeks and one semester (between 14 and 90 days), with an African-born scholar who lives in the United States or Canada and works in an accredited college or university in either of those two countries.   If you know of a scholar that meets these criteria, you may identify that individual in the project request.  Both a prospective scholar and an institution must apply through the online system, and both scholar and project will be evaluated.  If you do not have a candidate in mind, we may be able to match a scholar to the project you have designed.

African host institutions are strongly encouraged to consider providing cost-sharing for the fellow.  Host institutions are advised to consider ways to cover the costs of the fellow’s housing, meals and transportation needs during the fellow’s time at the institution. 

We at IIE that are working on the ADF Program are ready to assist host institution in completing the project request form and using the online module.  Please feel free to contact us at any time.

Best regards,

Debra Egan

Director of Academic Partnerships

Dylan Gipson

Senior Program Officer

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

Scholar Exchanges Division

Institute of International Education (IIE)

1400 K Street, NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20005-2403 USA

Tel: 202.686.6245

Fax: 202.686.4029

Email: africandiaspora@iie.org

http://www.iie.org/Programs/Carnegie-African-Diaspora-Fellows-Program