Event in New York: Voices of Change in African Higher Education

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
3:30-5:30pm
Institute of International Education (IIE)
809 United Nations Plaza, New York City

The Institute of International Education (IIE) will host an event to commemorate the launch of Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education, a new publication that tells of innovation and change across campuses and national boundaries. This is an invitation-only event. For more information, please contact lepplin@iie.org.

IIE is convening this event on behalf of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), an unprecedented collaboration between seven major U.S. foundations to support African higher education institutions in building capacity and training the next generation of scholars, public servants, and entrepreneurs. The ten-year, $440 million initiative was directly and indirectly responsible for improving conditions for over four million students at 379 African colleges and universities. The foundations are: Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation.

Weaving Success details how the support from the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa helped to catalyze social and economic development in African higher education. With inspiring tales of success from African professors, university administrators, and students, Weaving Success examines the exceptional steps that African universities have made over the past decade to apply their innovations in ways that benefit their respective societies, and highlights the transformative processes that are shaping the future of African colleges and universities.

Weaving Success is available for download in a variety of electronic formats. For more information and to download the book, please visit: www.iie.org/weavingsuccess.