Higher Education for Development (HED) organized an Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative Partners’ Meeting that was held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 13-15, 2012 for the African and U.S. partnership directors and invited guests from various development agents. Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education assisted in hosting the meetings. Representatives from the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative, Addis Ababa University, the American Council on Education, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (A•P•L•U), Higher Education for Development, the Association of African Universities, the World Bank, the African Union Commission, the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Ministry of Education, USAID/Ethiopia, the African Capacity Building Foundation, the European Universities Association, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, as well as 2009 World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta and several partnership directors of other successful USAID- and HED-sponsored partnerships in Africa presented during the meetings. Also contributing at the meetings were representatives from the Association of American Universities, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. A special focus of the meetings were the presentations by and discussions of each of the 11 Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative partnerships on their activities, outcomes, challenges and lessons learned to date.
CaptionOpening reception at the Hilton Hotel
CaptionOpening reception at the Hilton Hotel
CaptionOpening reception at the Hilton Hotel
CaptionTully Cornick, Executive Director, Higher Education for Development
CaptionAdmasu Tsegaye, President, Addis Ababa University
CaptionThomas Staal, Director, USAID/Ethiopia
CaptionTerry Hartle, Senior Vice President, American Council on Education, HED Board Chair
CaptionRepresentative of the Minister of Education, Ethiopia
CaptionOutside the United Nations Conference Centre
CaptionInside the United Nations Conference Centre
CaptionJoanna Masingila, U.S. partnership director for the Kenyatta University-Syracuse University partnership
CaptionVimolan Mudaly, University of KwaZulu-Natal, presenting on a completed partnership with the University of Buffalo in the area of mathematics education
CaptionAgnes Gathumbi, African partnership director for the Kenyatta University-Syracuse University partnership
CaptionPosters from two of the partnerships
CaptionPoster from the Kenyatta University-Syracuse University partnership
CaptionAzra Nurkic, HED, and Gary Bittner, USAID, discussing monitoring and evaluation in a training meeting with the partnership directors on the last day
CaptionTraining meeting for the partnership directors on the last day
CaptionTraining meeting for the partnership directors on the last day
CaptionGroup photo during the training meeting with the partnership directors
About Joanna Masingila
Joanna Masingila is Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at Syracuse University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Kenyatta University in 1998, and since that time Syracuse University and Kenyatta University have an institutional linkage.
