The Pan African University: Rethinking the Link Between Education and Development
The Pan African University:
Rethinking the Link Between Education and Development
The Pan African University is a global university whose faculty, staff, students, and external partners employ intellectual and financial resources to enrich the lives of those we serve. The University’s spirit of service through people with a commitment to:
· Linking education with economic development,
· preparing educated men and women for meaningful and productive lives,
· educating students for life in a global economy
· promoting the diversity of people and ideas, and
· providing reasonable and affordable access to higher education.
Online Campus Overview
The Pan African University educates students to assist in the enlightening and disciplining of their minds and their preparation for active, professional leadership. To achieve this, the University engages in the mutually supportive activities of teaching, learning, research and service. Dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse population, the Pan African University seeks to meet its responsibilities as an emerging pan-African university, actively partnering with regional “bricks and mortar” schools, business and industry and offering expanded instructional opportunities that respond to area needs.
The hallmark of the University is outstanding teaching by an international faculty of experienced educators. Small classes, personalized advising, and frequent opportunities to interact with faculty provide a student-oriented learning experience. Research is a priority for the University. Effective teaching and faculty involvement in scholarship, research and creative activities are interdependent. These activities increase the intellectual capital of the countries with whom we partner and to provide students with opportunities to participate in the development and application of new knowledge to enhance the region's growth. A program of well-endowed centers and chairs and professorships builds upon a tradition of faculty research.
The University's programs provide both a firm grounding in the liberal arts and strong professional preparation. Master's degrees, post-master's specialists degree, doctoral degrees, and Certificates of Advanced Study are awarded through our Colleges of Arts and
Sciences, Business Administration, Health, Education and Professional Studies, and Information Technology.
Accreditation
With its own degree-awarding powers, the Pan African University is poised to be a highly valuable partner in education for people interested in new careers and experiences they can use to work and give back to their communities. The new University has sought accreditation from five African countries. It will be open to students in February 2007. It is now recruiting students from across Africa and the Caribbean.
HistoryThe Pan African University (PAU) is an institution with an interest in the economic development and educational expansion of African and Pan African countries. The primary purpose of PAU is to promote African and Pan African nations through education, continuous learning, social evolution, and economic growth. It is a university founded by notable scholar-practitioners representing citizens of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone, Togo, and the United States.The Pan African University offers programs that reflect the most urgent educational and development needs the people of Africa and the Caribbean. The intention is to have those outcomes quickly translate into tangible development opportunities for nations struggling with a variety of needs ranging from agriculture to health to infrastructure development. For further information, please contact:
The Director of International ProgramsPan African University112 Main StreetSuite 177Brewster, NY 10509United States of AmericaTel: 1-888-864-7756Fax: 1-888-864-7785Email: info@panafricanu.org Visit Us At: www.panafricanu.org
Welcome to Pan African University
Pan African University (PAU) is an institution of persons with an interest in the educational expansion of African and Pan African countries. PAU exists to find the energy to rethink Africa's development needs, and allow higher education to find a new direction and be better adapted to a knowledge-based world economy. At the centre of such academic globalization is the Atlantic African Diaspora of academics and other professionals. The University will provide instructed access to moral and political philosophers as well as science and technology as a way for Africans to create a revolution in public morality; a distant, difficult but essential aspiration to offer public thinkers in these institutions.
Learn more about how PAU can help you earn a degree from a University whose core curriculum would enable you to think through problems of social reform and economic competition in the context of the global economy. Request information today. Visit our Home at www.panafricanu.org
Help Fund a University whose Core Curriculum Enables Students to Think Through Problems of Social Reform and Economic Competition
Júlio César de Carvalho, M.Ed. & CAGSPh.D. Scholar-Practitioner (Education)Chief Executive OfficerWelcome to the WebBlog of the the Pan African University. If you are visiting this Blog, and have supported the Pan African University in the past, first and most importantly THANK YOU!
We recognize that philanthropy is a personal decision and we at the Pan African University will appreciate your support for our initiative to develop intellectual capital in African and Pan African countries. We are developing a new model for a Pan African operation in Higher Education in Africa and the Caribbean countries that will help meet the demand for highly trained professionals. Through a model of distance learning, the university will establish itself as an incubator for success and will offer advanced degrees in professional, scientific, and academic fields; develop communities of practice and professional support groups; and provide knowledge based information on educational and economic expansion of beneficiary countries.
Why Pan African University:
The Pan African University, also referred to as PAU, is an institution of persons with an interest in the educational expansion of African and Pan African countries. The primary purpose of PAU is to promote lifelong learning that will advance African and Pan African nations through education, continuous learning, social evolution, and economic growth. It is a university founded by notable scholar-practitioners. And principals of the Working African Group that founded the University represent citizens of Cape Verde, Nigeria, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone, the United States, and other countries representing the pan-African community.
The Pan African University is committed to the people of Africa and the Caribbean with the founding architects of the University and its appointed working committees will be working closely with local communities in Africa and the Caribbean to understand what educational programs would be most beneficial and what employment opportunities have an immediate need for practitioners. The programs offering thus reflects the most urgent educational needs the people of Africa and the Caribbean have and those disciplines which will quickly translate into tangible development opportunities for the struggling nations. As needs evolve in these countries, so will the Pan African University, as it increases its selection of unique, relevant and accessible education opportunities for adults interested in securing Africa’s and the Caribbean’s future and in the process, their own. It is therefore incredibly satisfying to witness the fruition of the Pan African University as it perfectly encapsulates its mission to provide access to relevant education, enabling personal and economic growth while respecting students’ priorities and values.
The Pan African University is poised to be a highly valuable partner in education for people interested in new careers and experiences they can use to work and give back to their communities. Completely independent with its own degree-awarding powers, the University will be fully developed in five to seven years. The new University has sought accreditation from five African countries. It will be open to students in February 2007. It will recruit students from across Africa and the Caribbean.
What We Need to Maintain the University:
The University wishes to enter the domain of e-learning model of instruction with great confidence. With generous financial support from people like you, the University seeks to be in a position of leadership to provide first-rate customized advanced degree programs based on efficient research and e-learning teaching techniques.
The University's contribution to development in Africa will continue apace with present-day development strategies considered by international development agencies like the Breton Woods institutions, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Overseas Development Administration and the NORDIC Institute. And it will remain strongly committed through the teaching and research of its staff to the advancement of learning and ennoblement of life in Africa and the Caribbean.
We are inspired by your faith in humanity and their belief in the human spirit to overcome. And because you believe that education is freedom since it provides the tools to affect one's own destiny we will rely on your gifts to make the Pan African University an incubator for the success it aspires to be.
We are asking for your support. As a powerful force on human development issues, you have the ability to inspire women and men in Africa and the Caribbean to do extraordinary things. With your support, in kind or cash, we look to strengthen the work we have begun as well as gain new knowledge and insights about strategies needed by Africa and the Caribbean to sustain their development. We will undoubtedly be able to achieve this goal, provided we are able to secure the necessary resources. For more information visit the University at www.panafricanu.org
Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely:
Júlio César de Carvalho, M.Ed. & CAGSChief Executive Officer
