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“To Do Real and Permanent Good in This World.” Andrew Carnegie, the Gospel of Wealth, 1900 Contents ANNUAL REPORT 2012 REPORT ANNUAL “To do real and permanent good in this world.” Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1900 Contents REPORT ON PROGRAM 3 International Program National Program External Affairs Centennial Grants Special Opportunities Fund REPORT ON FINANCES 43 REPORT ON ADMINISTRATION 60 REPORT ON INVESTMENTS 63 STAFF 67 3 Report on Program International Program KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, London, UNITED KINGDOM Higher Education and Libraries A FINAL GRANT FOR BUILDING A NEXT GENERATION OF in Africa SCHOLARS IN PEACE, SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES. 36 MONTHS, $1,999,900. AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, New York, NY King’s College London’s (KCL) African Leadership A FINAL GRANT FOR FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES IN Centre (ALC) is a pioneering project that is built on AFRICA. 66 MONTHS, $5,450,000. the recognition of the lack of capacity in an area that is perhaps the greatest threat to African development: The American Council of Learned Societies launched the peace, security, and development. The ALC combines African Humanities Program in 2008 in response to the world class training through internships, placement, and dearth of research opportunities for early-career African research in a network of eight African institutions, along humanities scholars. Fellowships for either doctoral with an effective mentoring systems—over forty men- dissertation or postdoctoral research and writing are tors—while building long-term partnerships and relation- awarded on a competitive basis to humanities scholars ships with African universities and faculty members. The working in universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, current ALC renewal will train an additional twenty-four Tanzania, and Uganda. Fellows may apply for additional Carnegie Fellows in a twelve-month MA program in funds to spend time at an approved study center in an- peace, security, and development studies. The Fellows other African country. To date, 109 fellowships have been will be attached to African universities and will also con- awarded, with another fifty-seven fellows to be selected 4 duct institutional visits to a range of academic, policy, and in April 2012. This grant will support an additional 204 research institutions in Europe and the United States. fellowships, including fifty in a new category for senior scholars, and 148 residential allowances. A publications series will be launched, in partnership with the University REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES FORUM FOR CAPACITY BUILDING of South Africa Press, to disseminate fellows’ research. IN AGRICULTURE (RUFORUM), Kampala, UGANDA FOR STRENGTHENING REGIONAL DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN CAPE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM, WYNBERG MEWS, AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES. 36 MONTHS, $997,900. Wynberg, SOUTH AFRICA The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building ONE-TIME ONLY GRANT FOR A RESEARCH REVIEW OF U.S. in Agriculture (RUFORUM) seeks, in part, to promote FOUNDATION INITIATIVES IN EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION the development of internationally competitive doctoral AT SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES. 12 MONTHS, $158,000. training programs in African universities. It does this through partnering with its member universities to iden- U.S. foundations have been supporting equity and trans- tify those with capacity in relevant fields, making them formation of postgraduate education at South African uni- focal points for regional training programs. This grant versities since postapartheid. Since 2005, the Corporation will support twenty-eight doctoral students who have has funded postgraduate training and staff development faculty appointments in African universities. Six of these at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of students will be recruited from universities in Ghana and Cape Town, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This Nigeria; the rest will be staff members of RUFORUM support was a component of each university’s institutional member universities in East and Southern Africa. The strategy for transformation. South Africa is currently grant also will support a visiting professor, upgrading of conducting national investigative research to inform video-conferencing capacity, publications, and monitor- expansion of its postgraduate education system. In this ing and evaluation activities. context, the proposed project seeks to research, retrieve, and compile lessons learned from the approaches that were trialed with U.S. foundation support to inform gov- ernment, universities, and the donor community focused on developing the next generation of academics. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, RONDEBOSCH, UNITED KINGDOM Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA FOR COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA FOR A CONFERENCE ON STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME POVERTY AND MakERERE UNIVERSITY TO PROMOTE RESEARCH AND INEQUALITY. 12 MONTHS, $100,000. EXCELLENCE AND RETENTION OF EARLY- AND MID-CAREER As part of its long history of support to South Africa, SCHOLARS AND SCIENTISTS. 36 MONTHS, $1,200,000. the Corporation in 1938 and 1982 financed inquiries on The “Cambridge Africa Partnership for Research poverty through Carnegie Commissions. At the request Excellence” aims to improve international research com- of Minister Trevor Manuel, chairman of the Planning petitiveness in selected fields at the University of Ghana Commission of the Republic of South Africa, University and Makerere University through a mix of postdoctoral of Cape Town (UCT) proposes a National Conference on fellowships, workshops, and mentorship. Thirty early- Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality to consti- and mid-career faculty members will spend up to six tute the inception phase for research and policy to tackle months at Cambridge, conducting research and engaging the chronic problems of poverty in South Africa. Named in a variety of skill-building activities. Twelve research Carnegie III, this project will generate 150 papers, managers will make study visits to the Cambridge films, and multimedia materials, a report to the National Research Office and will use their training to strengthen Planning Commission (NPC), and the inauguration of a their universities’ capacity to support research activity. national research and policy agenda around the theme. The project team expects the project to result in collabora- As the host of the 1982 Carnegie II Inquiry, UCT is well tive research grants and publications and greater retention placed in terms of history, research capacity, infrastruc- of scholars and scientists in the African universities, ture, and national legitimacy to effectively implement among other benefits. The Isaac Newton Trust and the this project. 5 Alborada Trust also will contribute to the project. UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON, Accra, GHANA UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, RONDEBOSCH, AS A FINAL GRANT FOR POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA RESEARCH PROGRAMS TO ADVANCE SCHOLARSHIP AND FOR A POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL IMPROVE THE RETENTION OF AFRICAN ACADEMICS. TECHNOLOGY AND AN AFRICAN ELEARNING NETWORK. 36 MONTHS, $2,350,000. 48 MONTHS, $1,499,300. This grant to University of Ghana (UG) is one of four As universities worldwide are grappling with efficiency grants that advances the International Program’s Africa and access, the use of technology for teaching and re- strategy of developing and retaining the next generation search is creating a disruptive environment and generat- of African academics through promoting excellence in ing radical new ideas about how to reform education. postgraduate training and research while emphasizing The debate includes both decision makers and the pace of retention and strengthening intellectual communities. change. Given the urgency of cost and access in Africa, This program will strengthen the university’s capability Africans should be part of the debate and innovators in for high-quality postgraduate training and research along their own context. The Corporation has invested signifi- with staff retention. It will train twenty Ph.D.s, fifteen cantly in technology infrastructure at its partner African M.Phil.s, provide capacity-building and methodological universities. To build capacity of the next generation of workshops for 300 postgraduate students, writing work- African academics to contribute to reform, the proposed shops and mentoring for 120 junior faculty members, and grant aims to support development of a postgraduate di- establish Ghana-diaspora faculty exchange in computa- ploma in educational technology at the University of Cape tional and biosphere sciences and sociology, identified as Town Center for Educational Technology (CET), provide national needs. It will also support retention strategies. scholarships for the program to academic staff at partner universities, and develop an Africa e-learning network. UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA EURasIA FOUNDATION, INC., Washington, DC AS A ONE-TIME GRANT FOR A LIBRARY LEADERSHIP AS A FINAL GRANT FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY skILLS AND TRAINING CENTERS IN THE CAUCasUS. 24 MONTHS, TRAINING PROGRAM. 48 MONTHS, $2,000,000. $2,000,000. Modern academic libraries and librarians provide an At the core of the Corporation’s initiative on Higher enabling environment for a strong academic sector. The Education in the former Soviet Union are the Centers changing work environment for information profession- for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs) in Russia, als due to the fast pace of technology innovation requires Belarus, and the South Caucasus
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