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Identifying New Directions for African Studies: Methodology Report and Survey Results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2016
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The sample frame was constructed over several months through the combined efforts of three graduate students and Prof. Larry W. Bowman. Using the Internet whenever possible, and backed by the assistance of colleagues from many institutions, we constructed a sample frame of 1,793 U.S.-based Africanists. Our sample frame includes 46 percent more Africanists than the 1,229 individual U.S. members of the African Studies Association (ASA) in 2001 (1,112 individual members and 117 lifetime members). In all cases we allowed institutions to self-define who they considered their African studies faculty to be. By assembling this broad sample frame of African studies faculty, we probe more deeply into the national world of African studies than can be done even through a membership survey of our largest and most established national African studies organization. The sample frame for this study approximates a full enumeration of the Africanist population in the United States. Therefore, data collected from samples drawn from this frame can with some confidence be generalized to all Africanists in the United States, with minimal coverage error.
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1. The 16 Title VI institutions are Boston, Indiana, Michigan State, and Ohio Universities; the University of California-Berkeley, jointly with Stanford University; the Universities of California-Los Angeles, Rorida, Illinois, and Kansas; the University of Pennsylvania, jointly with Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr Colleges; the University of Wisconsin; and Yale University.
2. The 41 AASP member schools are California State University-San Bernardino; Central Connecticut State University; Colgate University; the Colleges of Charles-town and of William and Mary; Colorado College; Columbia College (South Carolina); Columbia University; Dartmouth and Davidson Colleges; Duke, Elon, and Emory Universities; the Five-College Program (Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts); Furman, Georgetown, Harvard, and Hofstra Universities; Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies; Northwestern, Ohio State, Pennsylvania State, Princeton, Rowan, Rutgers, and St. Lawrence Universities; SUNY-Albany; the Universities of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina-Greensboro, Richmond, and South Carolina; and Western Michigan University.
3. The 23 HBCUs surveyed are Alabama A & M; Albany State University (Georgia); Central State, Chicago State, Clark Atlanta, Dillard, Fisk, Howard, Jackson State, and Kentucky State Universities; Lincoln University (Pennsylvania); Morehouse College; North Carolina A & T; Savannah State and South Carolina State Universities; Southern University-New Orleans; Spelman College; Tennessee State, Texas Southern, and Tuskegee Universities; West Virginia State College; Wilberforce College; and Xavier University of Louisiana.
4. The 23 universities added that were not otherwise included are American, Binghamton, Claremont Graduate, Duke, Florida State, George Washington, Iowa State, New York, and North Texas State Universities; SUNY-Buffalo; Syracuse and Temple Universities; and the Universities of Arizona, Chicago, Colorado-Boulder, Denver, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Southern California, Texas-Austin, and Washington. To identify the 50 leading universities awarding graduate degrees in African studies (1977-2001), we relied exclusively on comprehensive tabulations provided by Joseph Lauer of Michigan State University.
5. The 24 colleges and universities not otherwise included but listed on one or more of these Web sites are Adelphi and Brandeis Universities; California State University-Sacramento; Carleton and Colby Colleges; Cornell, Florida International, and Georgia State Universities; Gettysburg and Kalamazoo Colleges; North Carolina State University; Oberlin and Providence Colleges; Purdue University; Trinity College (Connecticut); Tufts and Tulane Universities; University of California-Santa Barbara; the University of Massachusetts-Boston; the University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Union College; the Universities of Toledo and Virginia; and Wesleyan University.
6. The University of Connecticut Advance 21, no. 12 (November 12, 2002): 4.