If you are a local college/university student who was born in Africa you are eligible to participate in an educational research study at the University of Nebraska. Contact africancollegestudentsNE@gmail.com to participate. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom in the Fall of 2021.
Eligibility criteria for participants in this study. You must be:
- born in Africa
- enrolled in a Nebraska college or university within the past six months (at the time of the interview)
- at least 19 years of age (for legal reasons)
You can be undergraduate or graduate, “international” or “domestic”, community college or 4-year institution, any passport/visa type/citizenship status. You can be any major/discipline/department.
About this research: This study of African students’ experiences of racism is approved by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) as IRB #20323 and will be conducted by Eileen Boswell for her doctoral dissertation. There is no risk or benefit to participating. All participants will be represented with a pseudonym and all identifying details will be removed in the dissertation report. The interviews began in Spring 2021 and will continue through the Fall 2021 semester. If you are an African-born student in Nebraska and you would like to share your experiences with racism, please contact Eileen Boswell at eileenboswell@huskers.unl.edu or africancollegestudentsNE@gmail.com.
About the researcher: Eileen Boswell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at UNL studying racism in higher education. She lived in Senegal and Guinea from 1998-2001 where she was a teacher and community volunteer. Eileen also participated in a travel study to South Africa to learn about comparative education and she has also traveled to Mali, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.
More details at: https://bit.ly/AfricanStudentsNE”