South African Partnerships Program

Purpose

The South African Partnerships Program makes possible partnerships between UM System faculty members and a number of institutions throughout South Africa, including historically disadvantaged postsecondary education institutions, governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations.

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Eligible UM System faculty and staff are invited to apply. If you are interested in working with only the University of Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, then you want to apply under the UM/UWC Faculty Exchange Program; this Partnerships Program is for collaboration with other institutions or for a multi-institutional collaboration that may include UWC.

About the Program

The Partnership Program has supported training for and/or research about:

• Teachers in writing, language and media literacy
• The role of sports in the lives of political prisoners on Robben Island
• Women painters as guardians of Ndebele culture
• Statistics
• Structural health monitoring
• Community development
• Wildlife management and conservation
• Science education

The program was initiated in 1996. Thus far, it has funded 42 faculty members from the UM System's four campuses.

Reports about the Partnerships

2024

Wilson Majee, Claire Wolff Rippel and Sarah Hultine Massengale

2023

John Kevern

2022

• Charles Nilon and Andria Caruthers
  • Community Gardens and Indigenous and Local Knowledge
     
• Umit Tokac, Jennifer-Anne Chips and Petra Brysiewicz
  • Prediction of the Unplanned and Avoidable Trauma and Surgical Readmissions in South Africa
     
• Kate Trout, Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Julian May and Shane Norris
  • UM-UWC-Wits Partnership Report

2021

• Felix Fritsch and Hussein Shimelis
  • Utilizing and Teaching Modern Phenomics in African Crops for Environmental Stress Tolerance
• Mark Morgan and Namrita Lall
  • New Global Markets for Invasive Species: Malnutrition, Hunger & Health

2019

• Trent Guess and Antonis Stylianou
  • "Pediatric Knee Disorder Consortium – A Partnership between South Africa and the University of Missouri"
• Dorina Kosztin and Meera Chandrasekhar
  • "Developing Modeling Implementation and Leadership Practices for High School Physics and Physical Science Teachers" and "Modeling Workshop for High School Physics and Physical Science Teachers"

2017

• Meera Chandrasekhar
  • Modeling Workshops for High School Physics and Physical Science Teachers
     
• Candace Kuby
  • Multimodal Literacies: Pedagogies in Higher Education

2016

• Laura Schopp
  • Visits to Cape Town and Genadendal

2015

• Kateryna Schroeder
  • Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FARPI) / South African Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) collaboration

2014

• ICLDP Pilot Project between University of Missouri Extension - Columbia and the Community Engagement Unit at the UWC
  • Implementation Evaluation Report
• A trip to the University of Missouri...
  • Trip Report

2013

• Natalie Bolton
  •   Civic Education Partnership Initiative for South Africa
     
• Kenneth P. Thomas
  •   South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand

2012

• Kwame Awuah-Offei
  •   University of the Western Cape & Stellenbosch University
• Rolene Bauer
  •   Marine Polysaccharides for Application in Tumor Therapies
• Jere L. Gilles and Willi Meyers
  •   Community of Practice around GM crops for small producers
• Peter Motavalli
  •   Evaluation of Soil Quality for Improving Food Security and Sustainability of Irrigated Agroecosystems in Africa

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