Grant Activity: Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural and physical sciences. Supervise student theses and collaborate with faculty on research and program development. Conduct research in area of specialization.
Specialization(s): Applications are encouraged in education, foreign language and linguistics, geography, mathematics, mining and mineral processing, physics, business administration, engineering, American literature, agribusiness, computer science and journalism. Applications are also welcome in any discipline taught at a participating host institution.
Location: See comments.
Length of Grant: 10 months
Starting Date: Late September 2009; grantees with children to enroll in school should arrive by the end of August.
Comments: Information on possible host institutions and their Web site addresses, if available, follow: (1) University of Dar es Salaam in Dar es Salaam, www.udsm.ac.tz, offers arts and social sciences, commerce and management, sciences, education, aquatic sciences and technology, law and engineering. In addition, there are institutes of development studies, Kiswahili research, resource assessment and marine sciences. (2) Mzumbe University in Morogoro, www.mzumbe.ac.tz offers degrees in economics, business management, public administration, local government, economic planning, accountancy and financial management; (3) Open University of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, www.openuniversity.ac.tz, offers courses via on campus and distance learning; (4) Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, www.suanet.ac.tz, offers degrees in agriculture, agronomy, home economics and human nutrition, horticulture, animal science, food science and technology, agricultural engineering, agricultural extension and education, agricultural economics and agribusiness, wildlife management, veterinary medicine and environmental sciences; and constituent college Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies www.muccobs.ac.tz; (5) State University of Zanzibar in Zanzibar, offers degrees in languages, law and business administration and education; (6) Institute of Finance Management in Dar es Salaam, offers degrees in finance and management; (7) College of African Wildlife Management in Moshi, www.mwekawildlife.org (8) Karume Technical College, Zanzibar; (9) St. Augustine University of Tanzania offers degrees in mass communication and business administration, education, sociology, philosophy, religious studies and law, and has the following constituent colleges: (a) Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Mwanza for medicine, Ruaha University College, Iringa for law and computer science, and Mwenge College of Education, Moshi for Education; (10) Tumaini University has four campuses, (a) Iringa University College of Tumaini University, Iringa, www.tumaini.ac.tz, offers degrees in journalism, business administration, theology and agriculture, (b) Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College of Tumaini University, Moshi, www.kcmc.ac.tz, offers degrees in nursing, prosthetics and orthetics, medicine, pubic health and urology, and (c) Tumaini University in Dar es Salaam www.tumainidsm.ac.tz offers law, mass communication, business administration and library information services; (11) Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, www.hkmu.ac.tz, offers courses in medicine; (12) Mount Meru University, www.mmu.ac.tz, offers courses in theology, education and business administration; (13) Muslim University of Morogoro offers courses in mass communication and education; (14) Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, www.muchs.ac.tz, for dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health sciences, public health, primary health care, health education and traditional medicine; (15) Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam, www.universityofarusha.org, for land and environmental engineering, architecture and planning, human settlement studies and geo-information; (16) University of Arusha in Arusha offering degrees in theology, religion and business administration; and (17) University of Dodoma, Dodoma. Candidates are encouraged to correspond with potential host departments to determine whether their disciplines and specializations are of interest. For more information on higher education institutions in Tanzania, please visit www.msthe.go.tz or http://tcu.or.tz.
