Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 2, No. 2 | The First Africa-Wide Journal About Higher Education is Launched (low bandwidth)

The Partnership to Strengthen African Universities, together with Boston College and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), has recently launched the first Africa-wide journal devoted to higher education on the continent that will also serve as a principal means for sharing the experiences, success and lessons learned in the partnership countries. The Journal of Higher Education in Africa (JHEA) is a signature achievement for the four-foundation collaboration, one that they hope will help to create and sustain a concerned community of African higher education researchers and policymakers by ensuring access to and the dissemination of knowledge. An additional goal of the foundation partners is for JHEA to strengthen higher education’s role in informing the national and regional developments associated with democratization and socioeconomic progress.

In the first phase of development, Boston College and CODESRIA will co-publish the journal three times a year and distribute it, in Africa, through CODESRIA’s existing networks, free of charge, to appropriate university libraries and to a limited number of individual researchers, policymakers and government officials. Outside Africa, there will be a charge for the journal, which will be made available on the Internet, through Boston College’s web site, in collaboration with CODESRIA and Michigan State University’s African Studies Center. As a multidisciplinary and bilingual journal, published in English and French, JHEA will include peer-reviewed research articles and essays on a wide range of higher education issues relating to Africa. The journal will also publish special thematic issues comprising conference papers or articles on specific subjects relevant to African higher education.