Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

Deadline: 28-Feb-22

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is seeking applications for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP), a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions.

The program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).

A total of 527 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.

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.

Eligibility Criteria

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a fellowship program for African institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to host an African-born scholar to work in projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development.
The application process has two parts.