Texas Border Business
By Amanda L. Alaniz
Rio Grande Valley, Texas – Dr. Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Information Systems, has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) to travel to Ghana to work with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Business.
Andoh-Baidoo will work on collaborative research with Dr. David Asamoah, of KNUST, to organize seminars and workshops for graduate students and faculty of the School of Business, and the faculty of other, private universities affiliated with KNUST.
The goal of the project is to enhance the knowledge base and research capabilities of both the faculty and doctoral students. The anticipated impact is to increase the quality and productivity of faculty research activities that lead to publication in high-impact journals.
Andoh-Baidoo’s fellowship runs from June 12 to Aug. 11, 2018. He already is working with several graduate students from multiple institutions in Ghana, he said, and he sees multiple benefits from the fellowship that he can apply in the classroom.
“The fellowship will enrich my knowledge on global issues that I can share with the UTRGV community through my teaching,” Andoh-Baidoo said. “I also hope to strengthen research collaboration between the host institution and some of my colleagues who may be interested in collaborating with other faculty and students in Ghana.”
Andoh-Baidoo was one of 55 African-born scholars chosen to travel to Africa to work with higher-education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities.
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