The Media and Communications Department to host visiting Carnegie fellow
By Dorothy Njoroge
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) Advisory Council has selected Dr. Dorothy Njoroge and Professor Uche Onyebadi’s proposed project, ‘Co-develop Ph.D. in Communication and New Media and mentor graduate students in research while supporting roll out of Online MA in Communication’ for funding. Prof. Onyebadi, who arrived last week on campus, is a Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Journalism Department, Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University.
Prof. Onyebadi will be based at the Media and Communications Department and will spearhead the of establishment of a well-thought, globally-oriented Ph.D. program given his extensive experience background in the media industry and academia. He will also support thesis examination and conduct research workshops for graduate students and Department faculty. Prof. Onyebadi is the second CADPF fellow in the Department to collaborate with faculty in research and curriculum development. In 2017, Dr. Njoroge and Prof. Nancy Muturi of Kansas State University were similarly funded by CADPF to strengthen the graduate teaching and research. Prof. Muturi continues to support the Department in teaching during the summer semester, thesis advising and research mentorship.
The USIU-Africa project is one of 60 projects that will pair African Diaspora scholars with higher education institutions and collaborators in Africa to work together on curriculum co-development, collaborative research, graduate training and mentoring activities in the coming months. The CADFP, now in its tenth year develop long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada. It is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU). Nearly 650 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013.
