Carnegie Corporation sponsors survey of African diaspora academics

An email distributed to its members by the African Studies Association notes that the Carnegie Corporation of New York is looking for academics from the African diaspora in North America to answer questions in a survey in advance of the African Higher Education Summit on the Future of African Higher Education in March 2015 in Senegal.

Here is the full request:

As part of the upcoming African Higher Education (AHE) Summit on the Future of African Higher Education in March 2015 in Dakar, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program is organizing a Diaspora Convening, comprised of academics in the African diaspora, for the November 2014 African Studies Association's annual meeting. The goal of this convening is to develop a series of concrete recommendations that represent the Diaspora's voice(s) at the AHE Summit.

These resolutions will be sent to Carnegie Corporation of New York, who are one of the 11 organizing partners, for inclusion during the Summit.

We are reaching to African-born academics in higher education in the United States and Canada to gather foundational information on the activities of the diaspora, as well as to identify panel presenters who could represent themselves and their diaspora networks. Thank you for your cooperation in this process. You can access the survey at this website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1681e7u0vaO82qB20y1qaYatjxZTnZXsjDv3PycwfMII/viewform

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