The Study on sub-Saharan African Alumni (PARIS) was officially launched during a two-day workshop held last December at UC Berkeley with participants from seven universities – University of Toronto, McGill, and Simon Frasier (Canada), Earth University (Costa Rica) and UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Arizona State University (USA)
Participants included faculty, administrators and graduate students with expertise in international education, institutional research, and African Studies.
Dr. Robin Marsh, lead researcher on the study, opened the workshop by noting the historic opportunity offered by this new research grant from The MasterCard Foundation (MCF), both to increase knowledge on the influences of international education on the careers and leadership positions of Berkeley and partner university alumni from the African continent, and to positively impact the experiences of current and future African scholars…(Read the full story here)
