ERIC Number: ED661448
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 10
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Building Capacity at African Universities through Curricular Collaboration
Institute of International Education
A central component of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is curriculum co-development between U.S. and Canadian academics from the African Diaspora and host collaborators at African higher education institutions. The CADFP aims to build the capacity of African higher education institutions by increasing and enhancing curriculum offerings, graduate programming, and research production. Amongst educators, it is well-known that curriculum development and the accompanying approval and implementation processes are, by nature, time-consuming, multi-year endeavors that engage a wide range of stakeholders. The CADFP model gives Fellows the opportunity to receive the award up to three times, giving Fellows and their host institutions the possibility to complete curriculum development work through to its implementation. The Institute of International Education Research, Evaluation, and Learning (REL) Unit developed a targeted survey in May 2021, which was administered to the 63 CADFP alumni who had completed at least one fellowship with a focus on curriculum development between 2013-2017. The survey asked respondents to update the status of their curriculum development projects and indicate if they had returned to the host institution since their initial fellowship period for work related to the curricula. Overall, the study shows that curricula projects were likely to be implemented by the African host institution within four to five years. The qualitative findings highlight the effect of curricula projects on the students, faculty, and host institutions for which the curriculum was designed to support. They also identify challenges that respondents encountered as they sought to see the curriculum through to implementation.
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Universities, International Education, Immigrants, Fellowships, Curriculum Development, International Cooperation, College Faculty, Alumni, Curriculum Implementation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Course Content, Technology Integration, Mentors, Educational Resources, Barriers
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Authoring Institution: Institute of International Education (IIE)
Identifiers - Location: Africa; Canada; United States
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