Responding to a Ford Foundation initiative to strengthen African Studies and assure the training and the diversity of the next generation of scholars and policy makers in the field, the Joint Stanford-Berkeley Center for African Studies is hosting a summer workshop at the Marconi Conference Center near Tamales Bay for 15 Northern California college and university faculty who will be incorporating African Studies into their undergraduate course curricula.

The workshop aims

1. to help strengthen the curriculum offerings on Africa in colleges throughout the area,
2. to create potential mentors who will encourage undergraduates, particularly minority students, to pursue African Studies in their post graduate careers, and
3. to further develop a collaborative and collegial group of Africanists in California post-secondary education.