The recommendations by leading African academics will be presented at the African Higher Education Summit in Dakar in March 2015.
The series, entitled "A Life of Learning," celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance.
Awards were made across a dozen programs to scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
A Memorandum of Understanding was executed on October 2 at the ACLS offices.
The American Council of Learned Societies mourns the passing of its President Emeritus Frederick Henry Burkhardt, who died in Bennington, Vermont on September 23, 2007, at the age of 95.
