Dubois-Nkrumah-Dunham International Conference
Academic Achievement in Africa and Its Diaspora: Challenges and Solutions
May 1-2, 2009
Department of Africana Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Jerome Taylor, PhD, Conference Convener
Oronde Sharif, MSW, Conference Co-Convener
Call for Papers
We are soliciting abstracts for papers that complement presentations of featured speakers. As such we are particularly interested in receiving abstracts for papers that are responsive to one of the four questions motivating this conference:
- What academic challenges do we face?
- How do we account for identified challenges?
- Which policy reforms offer promise of overcoming identified challenges?
- Which practice reforms offer promise of overcoming identified challenges?
We invite students and scholars as well as administrators and policy makers from Africa and its Diasporan nations including but not limited to Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States to submit abstracts pertinent to one of these questions.
Each abstract should include in part of its title the identified question being examined along with your institutional affiliation and regular and email addresses.
The abstract narrative should contain no more than 300 words which identify the rationale for the presentation, data or policy sources to be utilized in answering the question, a statement of findings with implications, and a note on equipment needed to support the presentation.
Abstracts must be postmarked or date marked no later than April 3, 2009, contain your regular and email addresses, and submitted by regular or email to:
Professor Consuella Lewis
Administrative & Policy Studies
School of Education
5907 WWPH
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15260
lewisc@pitt.edu
The author(s) of each juried submission accepted will have 20 minutes for presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Also the author(s) of accepted submissions are expected to forward full narratives with exhibits to post on our website and for possible submission to a professional journal or publication in an educational monograph.
