Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) 2017/2018 for African Born Academics ($200/day Stipend)

Application Deadline: December 8, 2016, 11:59 PM EST.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE in partnership with the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). In the first two years of the program, the CADFP supported 110 short-term faculty fellowships for African-born academics. In October 2015, additional funding was secured from CCNY to support up to 140 fellowships. The program exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships. USIU-Africa provides strategic direction through Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and an Advisory Council he chairs.

Eligibility Requirements:

• African-born academics currently living in the United States and Canada and working in higher education. Fellows will engage in educational projects proposed and hosted by faculty of public or private higher education institutions in the following CCNY partner countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.

Eligible types of project activities that can be requested by the African host institution are:

• curriculum co-development,
• research collaboration and
• graduate student mentoring and training.

A Project can be conducted in the African host country for between 14 and 90 days, with one visit by 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. See the program description for information on the purpose, benefits, fellowship allowances and cost sharing from the African host institution.

Fellowship

For the fellowship, the African Diaspora Fellow will receive

• a $200/day stipend
• visa costs
• limited health insurance coverage
• round-trip international air travel and ground transportation costs to and from home and the U.S. or Canadian airport.

IIE manages the fellowships and payments to Fellows. Host Institutions are strongly encouraged to provide cost-share to cover the Fellow’s costs while in the host country. These costs include daily meals, lodging and transportation to and from the host country airport and to and from campus to the site of lodging.

Download a Microsoft Word version of the project request (548 KB, DOC)

Download project request guidelines (245 KB, PDF)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) 2017/2018