Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

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The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE, the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). A total of 583 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships.

The next round of applications and project requests will open on August 1, 2022 and for projects taking place from January 1, 2023 to November 30, 2023. Visit https://www.onlinesubmissionportal.com/adf to submit materials during the application window.

Eligibilty Criteria for African Institutions

Faculty at degree-conferring higher education institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, as well as faculty at institutions that are members of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), are eligible to apply to serve as hosts the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) by using the online project request system.

Note: Project requests can be submitted between August 1, 2022 until the deadline of September 30, 2022.

Types of Fellowship

African host institutions may request a Diaspora scholar to work on a project for a period of 14 to 90 days. The CADFP supports multiple fellowship types. Host institutions can name a specific eligible scholar, or submit a project without one. If a request is submitted without naming a specific scholar, IIE will search the CADFP Scholar Roster to identify a qualified candidate.

Host universities can submit Project Requests to support one or two of the following activities. Under these activities, potential hosts are highly encouraged to propose:

Innovations in curriculum co-development. Requests outlining activities in curriculum co-development should focus on innovative and collaborative approaches to designing and implementing new courses and curriculum(s). Fellowships that assist host institutions in developing and strengthening online instructional capacities are highly encouraged.
New approaches and methods to graduate mentoring and training. Requests which include mentoring and training graduate students should identify new approaches and methods that will enhance graduate students’ disciplinary knowledge and academic research skills.
Impactful research collaboration and capacity strengthening. Research collaborations proposed by potential hosts and fellows should demonstrate long-term impact and strengthening of host faculty disciplinary knowledge and academic research skills.

Project requests must include a letter of support from an administrator at the level of Dean or higher at the prospective host institution. All materials, including the letter of support, must be submitted online.

Eligibility Criteria for Scholars

The CADFP is always accepting applications for the scholar roster. In addition to reviewing the information below, scholars should familiarize themselves with the process of submitting a project by a prospective host institution in Africa.

To be eligible for the CADFP, a scholar must:

Have been born in any African country, as evidenced by the biographical data in the scholar’s passport;
Live in the United States or Canada;
Hold a terminal degree; and
Be employed at an accredited college or university.

Scholars may hold any academic rank, but postdocs are not eligible.

As part of the application, scholars submit personal statements and information about their academic qualifications, disciplinary expertise and administrative experience. A letter of recommendation from a Dean (or from an administrator of equal or higher level) from the scholar’s current institution is required.

Fellowship Benefits

African Diaspora Fellows receive the following:

a $150/day stipend
visa costs (if required)
supplemental health insurance coverage
round-trip international air travel and ground transportation costs to and from the scholar’s home to the North American airport
potential opportunities to apply for supplemental funding to cover knowledge production activities and workshop attendance.

Please visit Review Process and Criteria and How to Apply for African Institutions for more information on how the program operates.

Please email AfricanDiaspora@iie.org with questions.

Review Process and Criteria

Projects and scholars submitted to the CADFP are evaluated through a three-tiered review process.

Tier One–Technical Review: This process is conducted by IIE staff and confirms that the host institution and scholar are eligible to participate in the CADFP, and that all application materials have been submitted. Incomplete applications may be given time to submit required materials.
Tier Two–Discipline and Regional Review: Eligible project-scholar packages are assigned to committees made up of scholars representing an array of disciplines, all of whom have experience working in academic systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Disciplinary committees either recommend applicants for final selection, or do not recommend them, in which case the project goes no further and will not be funded. Notifications are sent to all hosts and scholar applicants informing them of the recommendation status of their submissions.
Tier Three–Advisory Council Selection: The Advisory Council of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program reviews all recommended projects and scholars and makes the final selection of which projects will receive CADFP funding. IIE makes notifications to all projects and scholars that had been recommended as to the final status of their applications.

Review Criteria

Quality of proposed project
Evidence of mutual benefit for host institution and scholar in proposed project
Appropriateness of time proposed for project visit
Fit and quality of proposed scholar match
Potential for impact
Host institution cost share

From the review criteria posted on the program website, a summary of what to look for follows:

Quality of proposed project

Specific and relevant activities are proposed to collaborate on research, curriculum co- development, and/or graduate student teaching, training and mentoring.
Strong project concept and rationale are provided; project demonstrates innovation and is practical.
Project Request clearly indicates what has been done by the institution on the proposed topic(s), the committed resources of the host institution, the host institution’s need(s)/problem(s) to be addressed, the goals of the project and what will change/ improve in order to meet the need(s)/solve the problem(s) and the anticipated specific role of the Diaspora Fellow in the proposed activities.
Clear mission of what the host institution wants to accomplish through project visit is articulated, and justification is provided on reasons to partner in the effort with a Diaspora scholar.
Project contributes to the overall CADFP goal of strengthening higher education in the continent.

Evidence of mutual benefit for host institution and scholar in proposed project

Mutual benefits are clearly outlined.
Concerted effort is demonstrated to include, engage and provide benefits to host institution and scholar home institution.
Home institution has experience, linkages and demonstrates commitment to support diaspora initiative.

*Partnerships between established and upcoming universities are encouraged.

*Applicants are encouraged to apply to host institutions whose status is equivalent to their home institutions.

Appropriateness of time proposed for project visit

Time proposed is sufficient to accomplish the specific objectives for the project visit.
Project is feasible in time proposed for visit; project activities are focused and not too broad for the project visit time period.
Proposed project fits into longer term collaboration and goals of the home and host institutions.

Fit and quality of proposed scholar match

The proposed scholar’s discipline, subfields, areas of expertise and professional experience and motivation for applying are well-suited to the success and impact of the project.

Potential for impact

Project forms or builds on a strong base for continued partnership.
Evidence of sustainability of project is presented.
If potential impact of longer term project will take more time to be realized or evaluated, explanation is provided on how initial impact of project visit will be measured or how it is expected to contribute to larger goals.
Projects which include curriculum development provide the actual or anticipated course titles and number of courses to be evaluated and developed, and how the host institution plans to staff teaching of new curricula. Collaborative research includes anticipated publication titles and academic journals for publication, where applicable. Projects in graduate student teaching and mentoring indicate the number and type of graduate students who will be taught and/or mentored (name, if possible) and the nature of the relationships (i.e. course instruction, thesis/dissertation advising, dissertation committee, research methodology training, etc.).

Host institution cost share

Host institution demonstrates commitment to project activities by offering cost share for lodging and/or meals. Host institution commits to host, support the fellow and to report on the fellowship visit.
Host institution will arrange for transportation from/to the airport in Africa, provide food and lodging.

Ratings

Reviewers rate each project request and proposed scholar match, using the following scale:Highly Recommend (HR)
Project quality is considered outstanding, with clear evidence of mutual benefit, an appropriate timeframe and high potential for impact. The proposed scholar’s expertise, experience, and motivation for applying are extremely well suited to the success and impact of the project. The host institution demonstrates capacity for hosting and commitment to the project activities by cost sharing lodging, meals and local transportation between the airport and lodging.

Recommend (R)
Project quality is considered to be at a sufficiently high level to meet the program goal and purpose, explains mutual benefit, proposes an acceptable timeframe and shows promising impact potential. The proposed scholar’s expertise, experience and motivation for applying fit the needs of the project. The host institution demonstrates some ability to cost share lodging and/or meals.

Not Recommended (NR)
Project lacks sufficient quality, does not demonstrate mutual benefit, is not considered feasible in time proposed or shows little potential for impact
and/or the proposed scholar’s expertise, experience or motivation for applying are not considered a good fit for the success and impact of the project.

Recuse (RE)
Unable to review due to conflict of interest
Reviewers will not review scholar applications from their home institution. Reviewers will also recuse themselves from reviewing a project request or scholar application submitted by a member of their family or from someone with whom they have worked closely, for example, co-taught or co-published.

Source: OpportunityDesk

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