Higher Education in Africa
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Excerpt from Higher Education in Africa: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, May 17, 1993 U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on African Affairs Of The Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 3:32 p.m., in room SD-419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Paul Simon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Simon. Senator Simon. The subcommittee hearing will come to order. We are holding a hearing on the question of higher education in Africa. Back in the early 1960´s, there were fewer than six established higher educational institutions in Africa. That number has gone up thanks to the help of the United States and some of the colleges and universities here and people in other countries. But after that improvement in the situation, there has been a rapid deterioration in the higher education community as the economies in Africa decline. Of the 30 African countries with higher education institutions, there are few institutions that really thrive today. Many of them are in very bad shape. And even among those that exist, opportunities, for example, for women and the number of women faculty members is not at a healthy level. Furthermore, U.S. institutions and programs working in Africa have too often relied on their own experts rather than developing African personnel capacity. But my feeling is as we approach aid to Africa, we are looking at the short-term problems. And I see a friend of mine. Buz Palmer, in the audience. We discussed these short-term problems. But we also ought to be looking at how can we help Africa long-term. And as you look at helping Africa long-term, we have to be looking at higher education more than we have. Higher education gets about 1.5 percent of the aid that we now provide for Africa. My hope is that that can increase that amount and that we can find ways beyond limiting ourselves to Aid assistance in Africa. We have a number of excellent witnesses today. And let me just add that one of the witnesses, Vivian Lowery-Derryck, who is the president of the African-American Institute was going to be one of our witnesses, but went through an emergency appendectomy on Friday. She has sent Mr. Carl Schieren to act in her place. Our first witness is the Acting Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Africa, Mr. John Hicks with AID and we are very happy to have you here, Mr. Hicks, and look forward to your testimony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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