National Council for Black Studies &

Ford Foundation

summer Administrative Workshop

July 14 -17, 2010
Atlanta, GA

The National Council for Black Studies and the Ford Foundation are pleased to announce a four day Administrative Workshop. The Workshop will provide Africana Studies chairs and/or directors with the tools, skills, and perspectives to successfully lead, sustain, and develop their departments.

Participant Recruitment and Selection Process: The Workshop seeks ten (10) new and existing chairs and/or directors with three years or less of experience who wish to advance their administrative skills and leadership of Africana Studies. Applicants must submit a one-page statement of purpose, reason for applying to the Workshop, type of program they lead as well as their goals, objectives, and challenges. Vita and one letter of recommendation are also required.

Participants will engage in hands-on activities, group discussions involving case studies, program assessment, review of budget spreadsheets, and reading materials that address both Africana Studies and the national/global debate surrounding higher education. Selected participants will be asked to bring the mission statements for their departments/programs, their budgets and staffing, their faculty productivity and student learning outcomes. Participants will also bring their college and university strategic plans and budgets as available.

NCBS Summer Administrator Workshop Facilitator: Professor Diedre L. Badejo, Ph.D. currently serves as Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at California State University East Bay. She formally served as associate dean of curriculum and program development in the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University. Professor Badejo is an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow (2006-07), a Fulbright Senior Scholar (Ghana, 1990-91), and an internationally published scholar in African and African Diaspora Studies. She also served as senior editor and head of the Editorial Department at Ahmadu Bello University Press in Zaria, Nigeria.

Application should include:

·         Application Form (see below)

·         A one-page statement of purpose and reason for applying to the Workshop. The statement should also include the type of program you lead as well as your goals, objectives, and challenges you seek to address.

·   Vita

·   One Letter of Recommendation 

Mail application along with statement, letter and vita to:

NCBS Ford-Administrative Workshop
National Council for Black Studies 
P.O. Box 4109 

Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4109

All applications must be post dated by May 7, 2010.