UC Davis was selected as one of 27 partner institutions to host the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders and Global Affairs is set to run a Public Management Institute this summer (June 20–July 27, 2018). The 2018 Mandela Fellows are welcomed from 17 countries and bring with them a passion for public policy and partnership.
As national news regularly draws attention to concerns about international students on United States’ college campuses, The Enterprise sat down with Joanna Regulska, the UC Davis vice provost and associate chancellor of global affairs.
UC Davis Global Affairs will host its third institute for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of the U.S. government’s Young African Leaders Initiative.
Through programming in partnership with businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and local and state government agencies, the Public Management Institute at UC Davis exposes Mandela Fellows to a diversity of perspectives on public management.
The 2017 UC Davis Mandela Washington Fellows sent a personal letter to the Global Affairs Mandela Washington Fellowship team expressing their gratitude for the program and for their fellowship experience.
Twenty-five young African leaders were out planting trees in Crawford Park in Woodland Thursday, as part of a six-week energy institute they are attending at UC Davis.
Evelyn Mugisha and 24 other young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa — where two out of three people lack access to electricity — have come to the University of California, Davis, to equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.
The president singled out UC Davis for hosting the the first class of Energy Fellows — “young people at UC Davis studying new ways to promote clean energy and fight climate change.”
When Fatima Oyiza Ademoh of Nigeria arrived in California in June to attend the Power Africa/Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Energy Institute, she expected the gender component of the trainings to offer the usual information on how energy access impacts women and men differently.
The Mandela Washington fellows last week were visiting UC Davis’ Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility, learning about irrigated and dry-land agriculture.
