NEWS PROFESSOR HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY Dr. Mumbi Mwangi was appointed as an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa this spring. Nelson Mandela University’s Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD) conferred the title of Honorary Professor onto Mwangi in recognition of her intellectual and scholarly accomplishments in the development and application of knowledge that has a transformative impact on society.
Photo courtesy of Michael Klitzk (Spring 2004 program)
Dr. Mumbi Mwangi, professor of A professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Gender and Women’s Studies St. Cloud State University, Mwangi’s work with Nelson Mandela University has helped CANRAD to create a more democratic, equal, socially just and sustainable world through her work on the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality.
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Mwangi was the recipient of a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship and served her fellowship in CANRAD at Nelson Mandela University in 2015. She is also founder and CEO of Ngatha International USA, a non-profit with the mission to restore hope and dignity to women and children through sustainable community projects in rural Africa. Following her fellowship visit, she continued working with CANRAD and helped to guide and nurture the development of a Women and Gender Studies Center at Nelson Mandela University. She also serves as an external examiner evaluating doctoral dissertations for Nelson Mandela University graduate students and helps to facilitate study abroad exchanges between the two institutions. Read more: https://scsu.mn/2ZTyRFN Photo courtesy of Amy Zenzen (Spring 2012 program)
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Student and faculty theses, dissertation and papers are being found and downloaded from St. Cloud State University’s Institutional Repository. This June the repository saw its 1 millionth download. Established in August 2011, the Repository provides open access to a diverse collection of academic, scholarly, scientific, and creative content produced by faculty, students, and staff at the University. These scholarly materials have been downloaded by scholars across the world said Repository manager University Archivist Tom Steman. “Knowledge is to be shared — sharing is good for all. And then to make that knowledge shareable worldwide is fantastic,” Steman said.
