CofC Professor Receives Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship
Finance professor James Malm was selected for a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
James Malm, associate professor of finance in the College of Charleston School of Business, was recently selected for a prestigious fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
After being selected from a highly competitive application cycle, Malm’s project became one of 60 new projects that pair African diaspora scholars with higher education institutions and collaborators in Africa to work together on curriculum, collaborative research, graduate training and mentoring activities.
“It is an honor to be named a CADFP Fellow,” says Malm. “The fellowship is an opportunity to give back. It will provide a platform to educate students and business professionals about career prospects and opportunities in business and data analytics. The fellowship will also give me the opportunity to develop my professional network.”
As a Diaspora Fellow, Malm will travel to Ghana to work with Joshua Ofori-Amanfo at the University of Ghana Business School to create the curriculum for a new graduate program in business analytics. Specifically, the scholars will develop instructional materials for a data analytics in supply chain course based on Malm’s previous work.
The new data analytics applications in supply chain course will give University of Ghana students the necessary knowledge to analyze data to support strategic decision-making in organizations. During his time in Ghana, Malm will also mentor graduate students and collaborate with faculty for curriculum implementation.
The CADFP, now in its 10th year, is designed to strengthen capacity at the host institutions and develop long-term, mutually beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa, the United States and Canada. It is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education in collaboration the Association of African Universities. Nearly 650 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception.
