The Transnationally Partnered University: Insights from Research and Sustainable Development Collaborations in Africa (International and Development Education)

## International and Development Education The International and Development Education Series focuses on the complementary areas of comparative, international, and development education. Books emphasize a number of topics ranging from key international education issues, trends, and reforms to examinations of national education systems, social theories, and development education initiatives. Local, national, regional, and global volumes (single-authored and edited collections) constitute the breadth of the series and offer potential contributors a great deal of latitude based on interests and cutting-edge research. The series is supported by a strong network of international scholars and development professionals who serve on the International and Development Education Advisory Board and participate in the selection and review process for manuscript development. In The Transnationally Partnered University, Koehn and Obamba explore the transnational-higher-education landscape in Africa and examine the extent to which the reality of partnership matches its golden rhetoric. By partnering across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, universities enable societies to make progress in alleviating poverty, adapting to climate change, and dealing with other current and future challenges. Specific approaches for linking African scholars and institutions of higher learning through symmetrical and mutually beneficial North-South and South-South partnerships are explored. The authors' creative and original process-based analysis of transnational-higher-education partnerships will be of interest to students of comparative and international education, science and technology, development studies, and African affairs as well as higher-education administrators, donor and development-agency professionals, and ministry personnel in Africa Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-26 Higher Education and Development: Knowledge as Igniter....Pages 27-37 The Landscape of Research and Development THEP Opportunities....Pages 39-70 Asymmetry and Symmetry in Transnational Higher-Education Partnerships....Pages 71-82 Initiating and Constructing the Transnational Higher-Education Partnership....Pages 83-96 Managing the Transnational Higher-Education Partnership: What Does Not Work and What Works....Pages 97-112 Symmetrical Capacity-Building Challenges for THEPs....Pages 113-130 Partnership-Sustainability Challenges....Pages 131-141 Symmetrical THEP Evaluation Challenges....Pages 143-163 Evidence from Africa....Pages 165-195 Conclusion: Promoting Synergy through Symmetry....Pages 197-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-273 Analyzing the growing importance of the transnational higher education landscape and the role of African universities, Koehn and Obamba show how transnational partnerships among universities can inform policy, strengthen synergies between knowledge producers and knowledge users, and advance sustainable-development practice.