Efforts are also made to establish long-term linkages among the participants so they can remain in close contact with each other as their projects and careers progress. Participants' expenses are fully covered by the university sponsoring the workshop, through a grant to the University of California, Berkeley, from the Rockefeller Foundation. Within common parameters, the format of the workshops varies at each institution. In every case, the workshops are designed to enable the participants to engage with each others' projects, conceptually and methodologically refine their own, clarify the links between theory and evidence, and seek connections among their projects. The workshops involve twelve to twenty-five advanced doctoral students and five or six faculty.
Several workshops employ long-distance learning approaches.
Students may apply to several workshops but may attend only one in any given year. Selected Internet Resources. Association of Concerned African Scholars. Founded in 1977, the ACAS is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa.