Wednesday, February 1, 2012 3:30-5:30pm Institute of International Education (IIE) New York City
On February 1st, the Institute of International Education (IIE) will host an
event to commemorate the Partnership of Higher Education in Africa (PHEA)
and 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. To attend the event, please contact
lepplin@iie.org.
This event will take place on February 1, 2012, from 3:30-5:30pm at the IIE
headquarters in New York City. Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie
Corporation; Olugbemiro Jegede, Secretary General of the Association of
African Universities; Brian O’Connell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of
the Western Cape; Teboho Moja, Professor of Higher Education at New York
University; and Allan E. Goodman, president and CEO of IIE, have already
confirmed their participation at the launch event.
The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa was 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,
The Kresge Foundation. Weaving Success details how the support from the Partnership for Higher
Education in Africa (PHEA) 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:
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