PUBLICATIONS

 

(i) Referred Books 

Forthcoming

Fongwa, S., Munene, I. & Abdelkadir, D. Eds. (In Preparation). The Evolution of the University specie in Africa: From the Medieval University, the Developmental University to the Post-modern University.  This book is sponsored by South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).  A contract has been signed with authors and the book is to be published by African Sun Media an academic publisher based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.  https://africansunmedia.co.za/publishing-house/

Published

 

Jamil, B.; F. de la Jara; I. Roy; I. Munene; P. Rose; Sabates, R. Eds. (2024). Ensuring Foundational Learning: Insights from the Global South. 

Munene, Ishmael (Ed.) (2021). Ensuring All Children Learn: Lessons from the South on What Works in Equity and Inclusion. Lanham: MD Lexington Books (A Division of Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). 

A. K. Bangura, J. A. Obando, I. I. Munene, and C. Shisanya. Eds. (2019). Conducting Research and Mentoring Students in Africa: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications.

Munene, Ishmael (Ed.) (2018). Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). 

Munene, Ishmael (Ed.) (2016). Achieving Education for All: Dilemmas in System-wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). 

Munene, Ishmael. (2014). Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience. New York: Routledge.

Munene, Ishmael (Ed.) (2011). An Interdisciplinary Primer in African Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2009). The Politics & Economics of Higher Education Transformation in Kenya: Impact of Globalization, Privatization, Quasi-Marketization and New Managerialism. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag.

Munene, Ishmael I. (Ed.). (2009). Transforming the Academia: Exploring African Universities in a Comparative Context. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

 

(ii) Refereed Book Chapters

 

Forthcoming

 

Munene, Ishmael (In Preparation).  Reimaging University Faculty Development in Africa: Spaces for Conservative Change or Disruption in Kenya.  Contract signed with Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.  Book to be published by African Sun Media, an academic publisher in South Africa. 

 

Published

 

Lemley, C., Wood, G. Waitere, H. Marks, D. & Munene, I. (2024) Promoting Data Literacy to Increase Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In Reyhner, J. et. al. (eds) Honoring Our Indigenous Languages and Culture. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University.  PP. 85-93.  https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/HOILC/HOILC6.pdf

 

Munene, Ishmael 1. (2022). The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya’s Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance. In Krishna Bista (ed). Routledge Studies on Global Student Mobility Book Series. New York: Routledge. PP. 179 – 194.  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-93865-9_13

 

Munene, Ishmael I. & Muyaka, Jafred. (2022). Coroeducation. In A. K. Bangura, Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Lanham: Lexington Books (A Division of Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), pp. 13-49. https://rowman.com/Action/Search/_/corohysteria

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2021). Equity and Inclusion in Education For All: What Works in the South. In Munene, Ishmael I. (Ed.) Ensuring All Children Learn: Lessons from the South on What Works in Equity and Inclusion Lanham: MD Lexington Books (A Division of Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793636270/Ensuring-All-Children-Learn-Lessons-from-the-South-on-What-Works-in-Equity-and-Inclusion pp.9-31.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2021). Postscript: Honor the Past, Embrace the Future, Live in the Present: The Future of Equity and Inclusion in EFA in the South. In Munene, Ishmael I. (Ed.) Ensuring All Children Learn: Lessons from the South on What Works in Equity and InclusioLanham: MD Lexington Books (A Division of Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.). https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793636270/Ensuring-All-Children-Learn-Lessons-from-the-South-on-What-Works-in-Equity-and-Inclusion pp. 257-265.

Munene, Ishmael 1. (2019). Thriving as a PhD Mentee: Mediating Mentor-Mentee Conflicts. In A. K. Bangura, J. A. Obando, I. I. Munene, and C. Shisanya (eds.). Conducting Research and Mentoring Students in Africa: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook. Darkar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications. pp. 1-18.

Munene, Ishmael l. et. al. (2019). Brief Descriptions of Qualitative Research Methods. In A. K. Bangura, J. A. Obando, I. I. Munene, and C. Shisanya (eds.). Conducting Research and Mentoring Students in Africa: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook. Darkar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications. pp.59-116.

Munene, Ishmael l. et. al. (2019). Brief Descriptions of Quantitative Research Methods. In A. K. Bangura, J. A. Obando, I. I. Munene, and C. Shisanya (eds.). Conducting Research and Mentoring Students in Africa: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook. Darkar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications. pp.117-146.

Shisanya, C & Munene, Ishmael 1. (2019). The Art, Science and Politics of Publishing. In Oanda, et. al. (Eds.). Conducting Research and Mentoring Students in Africa: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook. Darkar, Senegal: CODESRIA Publications. pp. 249-284.

Wane, N. & Munene, Ishmael I. (2019). African Indigenous Education in Kenyan Universities a Myth or a Reality.  In Miller, J. et. al. (Eds.). International Handbook in Holistic Education. New York: Routledge.  pp. 319-327

Munene, Ishmael I. (2018). Introduction: The Casualization of Academic Labor & Faculty Agency. In Munene (Ed.). Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books (Division of Rowman & Littlefield Inc.). pp.3-14 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2018). Prometheus Redefined: Theorizing & Contextualizing Contingent Faculty in Universities. In Munene (Ed.). Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books (Division of Rowman & Littlefield Inc.). pp. 15-33

Munene, Ishmael I. (2018). Afterthought: Unchaining Prometheus and Decaualizing Academic Labor. In Munene (Ed.). Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books (Division of Rowman & Littlefield Inc.). pp. 219-227

Munene, Ishmael I (with Guy Senese). (2017). Reclaiming Academic Freedom and Shared Governance: Comparative Reflections from Kenya and the United States.  In Fatma Mizikaci et. al. (Eds.) A Language of Freedom and Teacher's Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) pp. 143-167

Munene, Ishmael I. (2016). Introduction: Universal Primary Education in Africa—The Dilemmas of Access, Equality and Quality. In Ishmael I. Munene (Ed.) Achieving Education for All: Dilemmas in System-wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) pp. 1-26

Munene, Ishmael I. (2016). Conclusion: Questioning Paradigm, Reframing Strategy. In Ishmael I. Munene (Ed.) Achieving Education for All: Dilemmas in System-wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) pp. 209-224

Munene, Ishmael I., Flower Darby & John Doherty (2014). Blended for Student Engagement and Retention: The Case of Cinema and Visual Culture and Healthy Lifestyle Studies. In Jared Keengwe & Joachim Agamba (Eds.). Models for Improving and Optimizing Online and Blended Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. PP 129-146.

           http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/blended-for-student-engagement-and-retention/114292

Munene, Ishmael I. (2014). Limited Engagement: Historical Flashpoints in the Politics of University-Community Engagement in Africa. In Toyin Falola and Emmanuel Mbah (Eds.) Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor: A. B. Assensoh and African Politics in Transition.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. PP. 200 – 217.

          http://www.cambridgescholars.com/intellectual-agent-mediator-and-interlocutor

Munene, Ishmael I. (2012). African Higher Education: Institutional Response to Globalization.  In C. Legum (Ed.). Africa Contemporary Record 29. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier Publishers, pp. A1 - A15.

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2011). Grounded Theory and African Higher Education Transformation. In Ishmael I. Munene (Ed.) An Interdisciplinary Primer in African Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 149 - 168. https:rowman.com/ISBN/978-0-7391-6597-3

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2010). Universities and Centers of Learning.  In F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo (Editors). Encyclopedia of African Thought. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 309 - 402.

 

Munene, Ishmael I (2009). How Do We Pay For It?—Diversifying Financing in Constrained Economies.  In Ishmael I. Munene (Ed.), Transforming the Academia: Exploring African Universities in a Comparative Context. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 59 -76.

 

Munene, Ishmael I (2009). From Academic Elites to Managed Professionals: The Decline of the Academic Profession in Africa.  In Ishmael I. Munene (Ed.), Transforming the Academia: Exploring African Universities in a Comparative Context. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 107 - 128. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2009). Africa Education Initiative.  In Munene, Ishmael I. et. al. Assessing George W. Bush’s Africa Policy and Suggestions for Barack Obama and African Leaders.  New York, NY & Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc. 80-99.

 

Munene, Ishmael. (2007). Higher Education. Munene, Ishmael. et. al. Stakes in Africa-United States Relations: Proposals for Equitable Partnership. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, pp. 149 – 172.

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2006). Brain Drain. In Leonard, T. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Vol. 1. New York: Routledge Publishers, pp. 195 – 198.

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2006). Civic Education. In Leonard, T. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Vol. 1. New York: Routledge Publishers, pp. 338 – 343.

 

Munene, Irungu. (2003). Student Activism in African Higher Education In Altbach, P and Teferra, D. (Eds.), African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp.117 – 127.

 

Munene, Irungu. (1997). Origins and Perceptions on Universities, Students and Student Organizations of Kenyatta University Student Leaders, Kenya. In Okuni, A. and Tembe, J. (Eds.), Capacity Building in Educational Research in East Africa: Empirical Insights into Qualitative Research Methodology. Bonn, Germany: DSE, pp. 279 - 298. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1997). Proposed M.Ed. Comparative Education Course at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.  In Amini, S. et. al. (Eds.). Towards a Shared Vision for Higher Education: Cross-Cultural Insights and Projects.  Kassel, Germany: University of Kassel, pp. 159 – 166. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1996). The Crisis of Governance in Kenya’s Public Universities: Reflection on National Politics and Institutional Decline. In Marope, P. and Weeks, S. (Eds.). Education and National Development in Southern Africa. Gaborone, Botswana: SACHES, pp. 41 - 51. 

 

In Press 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (In Press) "....is ISO 9000:2008 Certified”:  Neoliberal Echoes, Knowledge Production and Quality Assurance in Kenyan State Universities. In Tabitha Kanogo and Hannington Ochwada (Eds.) Remembering Kenya: Essays in Honor of William Robert Ochieng. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers.

 

 

(iii) Refereed Journal Articles

 

Published 

 

Munene, Ishmael (2024). Cost and Equity: Decoding University Financing Reforms in Kenya.  International Higher Education, 118, Spring, 20-21. https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2024.118.10

 

Mtawa, N., Munene, I., Fongwa, S., Kibona, B. & Wangenge-Ouma, G. (Forthcoming). Covid-19 and Access to Higher Education: Achieving Social Justice or Entrenching Inequalities?  Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 21, 2, 1-27. 

Munene, Ishmael (2021). Universities and Labor Market Mismatch in Kenya. International Higher Education, 108, Autumn, 17 – 19 DOI: https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2021.108.08

Munene, Ishmael I. (2020). Mid-level Academic Leadership in Africa. Guest Editor, Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 18, 2, pp. 1-6. (Special issue on Mid-level Academic Leadership).  

Munene, Ishmael (2020). Reimagined University Bureaucracy and Mid-level Academic Leadership in Africa.  Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 18, 2, 1-4 DOI: https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/jhea/article/view/1874/1933

Munene, Ishmael (2020). The Evolution of University Chancellorship in Kenya. International Higher Education, 103, 1, 33-34. https://www.internationalhighereducation.net/en/handbuch/gliederung/#/Beitragsdetailansicht/815/2985/The-Evolution-of-University-Chancellorship-in-Kenya

Muyaka, Jafred, Wawire, Violet & Munene, Ishmael (2020). Internationalization Perspectives of Kenyan Universities: A Consideration of Stakeholders' Understanding and Motivations, and the Implications for the Provision of Quality Academic Programmes. Research in Comparative and International Education.

Munene, Ishmael I.& Wambiya, Paschal. (2019). Bridging the Gender Gap Through Gender Difference: Aiding Patriarchy in South Sudan Education Reconstruction.  Afirca Education Review, 16, 2. pp. 1- 16.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2019). Kenyan Universities: On the Brink of Financial Insolvency. International Higher Education, 97, Spring, pp. 25-27.

Munene, Ishmael I., Kangethe, Simon Ngigi & Mbae, Justus G. (2016). Faculty Development in a Private University in Kenya: Faculty Perceptions on What Is and What Should Be. Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, 8, pp. 70-92.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2016). University Branch Campuses in Kenya. International Higher Education, 86, Summer, pp. 22-23.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2015). Does Teacher Availability Matter?-Evidence from Uwezo East Africa Study. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education 10, 1, pp. 46-60.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2015). Profits and Pragmatism: The Commercial Lives of Market Universities in Kenya and Uganda. Sage Open, 5, 4, pp. 1-14.

Munene, Ishmael and Ruto, Sara (2015). Pastoralist Education in Kenya: Continuity in Exclusion in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL). Journal of Third World Studies, XXXII, No. 1 pp. 133-158.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2015). Providing Basic Education for All in Africa: What We Have Learned. Guest Editorial as Guest Editor, Africa Education Review, 12, 1, pp. 1-6. (Special issue on Evidence-based Learning Outcomes).  

Munene, Ishmael I. (2015). Private Twilight: Wither Private Universities in Kenya. International Higher Education, 79 Winter, pp. 18 - 19.  http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ihe/article/view/5844

Munene, Ishmael I. (2014). Outsiders Within: Isolation of International Faculty in An American University. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19, 4, pp.450 - 467

Munene, Ishmael I. (2014). The Problem with Public University Salaries in Kenya. International Higher Education, 77 Fall, pp. 21 - 22.  http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ihe/article/view/5681

Munene, Ishmael and Sense, Guy. (2014). No Free Set of Stake Knives: One Long, Unfinished Struggle to Build Education College Faculty Governance. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 23: 23 - 36.

Munene, Ishmael .(2013). Our University: Ethnicity, Higher Education and the Quest for State Legitimacy in Kenya. Higher Education Policy, 26: 43 - 63.

Munene, Ishmael. (2013). ) “……University is ISO 9000:2008 Certified”: Neoliberal Echoes, Knowledge Production and Quality Assurance in Kenyan State Universities.  Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 11, 1 & 2, pp. 161 - 182

 

Sorden, Stephen & Munene, Ishmael I. (2013). Constructs Related to Community College Student Satisfaction in Blended Learning. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 12: 251 - 270.

Munene, Ishmael;  (2013). New Reforms in Kenya. International Higher Education, 73 Fall: 14 - 16.

Munene, Ishmael I. & Ruto, Sara. (2010). The Right to Education for Children in Domestic Labor (CDL): Empirical Evidence from Kenya. International Review of Education, 56 (1), 127 - 147

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2009). Anticipated Developments: East Africa’s Private Universities and Privatization of Public Universities in the Global Context. Africa Education Review, 6, (2), 254 – 268. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. & Otieno, W. (2008). Changing the Course: Equity and Risk amid Policy Shift in Higher Education Financing in Kenya. Higher Education, 55, 461 - 479.

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2008). Privatizing the Public: Marketization as a strategy in Public University Transformation. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 13, (1), 1 – 17. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2007). Experimenting in Distance Education: The African Virtual University (AVU) and the Paradox of the World Bank in Kenya—A Rejoinder. International Journal of Educational Development, 27, 77 – 85. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. & Otieno, W. (2005). Vouchers, Informal Training and Loose Coupling: What Kenya’s Universities can Learn. Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 3, (1), 102 – 130. 

 

Ishmael Irungu Munene. (2002). University Academics: Demographic, Role Structure Characteristics and Attitudes towards Merit and Equity--A Kenyan Case Study. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 7, (3), 247 – 272

 

Munene, Irungu. (1997). The Struggle for Faculty Unionism in a stalled democracy: lessons from Kenya's Public Universities. Journal of Third World Studies, XIV (1), 91 - 114

 

Munene, Irungu. (1994). Adult Education and Democratization in Kenya: New Directions. Basic Education Forum, 4, 39 - 43.

 

 

(iv) Refereed Book Reviews

 

Published

Munene, Ishmael I. (2018). Review of Otenyo, Eric  E. Trade Unions and the Age of Information and Communication Technologies in Kenya.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. 229 pp.  African and Asian Studies, Fall, 18, 1, 421 – 423.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2016). Review of Huttenbach, Laura Lee The Boy is Gone: Conversation with a Mau Mau General.  Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. 251 pp.  Africa Today, Fall, 63, 1, 109 – 112.

Munene, Ishmael I. (2012). Review of Mwanzia J. & Strathdee, R. Participatory Development in Kenya. Africa Today 58 (3), 106 – 108. 

 

 Munene, Ishmael I. (2012). Review of Sifuna, D. N. & Sawamura, N. Challenges of Quality Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 32 (1) 201 - 202.

  

Munene, Ishmael I. (2010). Review of Carbone, G. No-Party Democracy? Uganda Politics in Comparative Perspective. Africa Today, 56 (4) 91-94.

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2005). Review of Suarez-Orozco, M & Qin-Hilliard, D. (Eds.). Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium. Comparative Education Review, 49 (3), 420 – 423. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I. (2005). Review of Krus, G & Kraak, A. (Eds.). A Contested Good: Understanding Private Higher Education in South Africa. Journal of Third World Studies, XXII, (1), 266 – 269. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1996). Review of Sifuna, D. and Otiende, E. An Introductory History of Education. Journal of Third World Studies, XII (1), 430 – 433. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1995). Review of Otiende, E. et. al. Education and Development in Kenya: A Historical Perspective. Journal of Third World Studies, XI (2), 550 - 552.  

 

Munene, Irungu. (1994). Review of Mukulu, A. 30 Years of Bananas. Msingi: Journal of Educational Foundations, l. (3), 61 - 63.

 

(v) Non-Refereed Book Reviews

 

Munene, Irungu. (1992). Review of Bogonko, S. A History of Modern Education in Kenya1985-1991. Blackboard, Daily Nation, 1992 p. 14.

 

(vi) Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

Munene, Irungu. (1999). Gender and Socio-structural configurations in Higher Education Administration: The Kenyan Experience. In Skidmore-Hess, C. (Ed.). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Third World Studies, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Costa Rica, November 18-20, pp. 251 - 280. 

 

(vii) Non-Refereed Short Essays

 

 

Munene, Ishmael (2024). Kenya’s Public Universities: Financing Funding Model Fails to Address Biggest Challenge-Funding. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, May, 6.

 

Munene, Ishmael (2024). Kenyan Universities are Very Short of Professors: Why it Matters and What to do About It. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, February, 1

 

Munene, Ishmael (2023). George Magoha was A Force For Better Education in Kenya. But He Had His Flaws. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, February, 1.

 

Mtawa, Ntimi; Fongwa, Samwel; Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald; Munene, Ishmael; and Kibona, Bertha (2022). Access to Higher Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic: What Mitigations Can Be Made For The Future Of African Higher Education? CODESRIA Bulletin, 6, 21 – 22.

 

Fongwa, Samwel; Kibona, Bertha; Munene, Ishmael; Mtawa, Ntimi; and Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald (2022). Covid-19 and Knowledge Production In Africa: Entrenching Inequalities Or Promising Opportunities. CODESRIA Bulletin, 4 & 5, 21 – 22.

 

Munene, Ishmael (2024). Kenyan Universities are Very Short of Professors: Why it Matters and What to do About It. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, February, 1

 

Munene, Ishmael (2022). Kibaki’s Kenya Education Legacy: Well-intentioned, with Disastrous Consequences. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, April, 26.

 

Munene, Ishmael (2021). Why It’s Time to Break The Cycle of Reform and Protest in Kenya’s Universities. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, August, 2.

Munene, Ishmael (2020). Why Kenya's Decision to Appoint "Corporate" Chancellors Won't Fix Universities. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalist Flair, July 26

Munene, Ishmael (2019). Struggle Between State Control and Autonomy is Playing Out at the University of Nairobi. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalist Flair, October 14

Munene, Ishmael (2019). The Power of the Purse Threatens Academic Freedom in Kenya's Universities. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalist Flair, October 14

Munene, Ishmael. (2019). Kenya's Universities need Deep Reform--not Just a Hike in Fees. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, April 17.

Munene, Ishmael. (2018). What Kenya needs to do to stop the university strike cycle. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair. April 16.

Munene, Ishmael. (2016). Part-time Lecturers are the Norm in Kenya. There is a Plan to Reverse the Practice. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair. October 4.

Munene, Ishmael. (2016). Kenya's Universities must Open up their Budgets to Scrutiny. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair. April 18.

Munene, Ishmael. (2016). Kenya's Universities are in the Grip of a Quality Crisis. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair. February 17.

Munene, Ishmael. (2016). How the rise in ethnic tensions at Kenya’s universities is hurting the academy. The Conversation: Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair, January 11. Also in Huffington Post (see online link)

Munene, Ishmael (2015). Opinion-Of Preditor Pastors and Gullible Christians in Kenya. Op-Ed, The Standard, February 13, p. 6. Also appeared as Christians Should Go Back to Bible Roots, Op-Ed, The Star, November 26, 2014 p. 3

Munene, Ishmael (2014). Democratize Public University Budgets. Op-Ed, The Star, February 24, p. 3 (http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-156529/democratise-public-university-budgets).

Munene, Ishmael. (2008). African Image, Mass Media and Popular Literature: Lessons for a Curious Community. Op-Ed, NAU Global, Fall p. 4 continued in page 18.

 

Munene, Ishmael. (2008). Scholars failed to give directions. East African Standard, March, 8, p. 7

 

Munene, Ishmael. (2006). Don pay woes a symptom of failed reforms. East African Standard, Oct., 19, p. 7. 

 

Munene, Ishmael I.. (2005). Resource Sharing Way Out for Varsities. Daily Nation, Feb., 24, p. 7. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (2003). Peg Varsity Pay on Productivity. Op-Ed. Commentary, Daily Nation, Dec., 3, 2003, p. 7. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (2003). Rationalize Varsity Staff Pay Proposals, Op-Ed. Commentary, Daily Nation, Oct., 29, p.7. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1994). New areas to consider for improved higher learning. Blackboard, Daily Nation, May, 14, p.13. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1994). University Impasse: The way Americans solved it. Op-Ed. Commentary, Daily Nation, Jan., 17, p.6. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1993). When degrees are used to get, not Perform, jobs. Daily Nation, Sept., 19. p.6. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1991). Why Campus riots will never end, in Blackboard, Daily Nation, Dec., 9. p. 18. 

 

Munene, Irungu. (1990): Education goes beyond Examinations, Blackboard, Daily Nation, Mar., 31, p.23. 

 

(viii) Refereed Academic Conferences.

 

April 3rd – 7th, 2024: Access Restrained, Success Denied: How Covid-19 Subverted Social Justice in Higher Education Access, Experience and Success in Africa. Paper presented at the World Social Science Association 66th Annual Conference, Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas.

 

April 12th – 15th, 2023: Reimaging University Faculty Development in Africa: Spaces for Conservative Change or Disruption. Paper presented at the World Social Science Association 65th Annual Conference, Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, Arizona.

 

August 3rd, 2022. Discussant, Launch of Universities, Society and Development: African Perspectives of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities edited by Samuel Fongwa, Thierry Luescher, Ntimi Mtawa and Jasmael Mataga.  Pretoria, SA: SUN PReSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXs3Gtkd6J0

 

July 14th, 2022. Effective Learner Engagement in the Digital Era. Presentation at the launch of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, KCA University, Nairobi, Kenya

 

April 12th, 2022. Invited to review the KCA University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Strategic Plan

Dec. 14-16, 2021. The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya's Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance in the Context of Northern Dominance. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Association of Global South Studies (Virtual Conference due to Covid-19). 

https://sites.google.com/georgiasouthern.edu/agss2021/conference-schedule

 

June, 19-20, 2019. Stewards Observing and Advocating Responsive Relationships: (In)tensions Engaging Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Relations. Paper presented at the 10th American Indian Indigenous Teacher Education Conference (AIITEC), College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. (Presented with Christine K. Lemley & Gerald Woods).

Mar. 28-30, 2019. On the Brink of Financial Insolvency: Contextualizing the Financial Crisis in Kenya's Public University Sector. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the African Studies Research Forums (ASRF), North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.  

 

June, 22-23, 2018. Stewards Observing and Advocating Relational Responsiveness (SOARR) Initiative: Promoting Data Literacy. Paper presented at the 9th American Indian Indigenous Teacher Education Conference (AIITEC), College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.  (Presented with Christine K. Lemley & Makayla Owens)

Mar. 29-31, 2018. Differentiating Tuition Costs: A Comparative Analysis of Market-based Costing of University Fees in Ghana and Kenya.  Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the African Studies Research Forums (ASRF), University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.  

Dec 14 – 16, 2017. Closing of the Kenyan Mind: How University Transformation Subverts Intellectual Values in the Academy. The 35th Annual Conference of the Association of Global South Studies, Hotel El Andalous, Marrakech, Morocco.

July 19 – 21, 2016. Closing of the Kenyan Mind: How University Transformation Subverts Spirituality in the Academy. The 10th Annual Decolonizing the Spirit Conference, Embu University College, Embu, Kenya

 July. 9-11, 2016. International Faculty in USA: Issues and Experiences. The Global State of Scientists (GloSYS) Africa Regional Study In-person Meeting. Le Labourdonnais Waterfront Hotel, Port Louis, Mauritius.  

 Nov. 22-24, 2015. University Revitalization through Faculty Development in Africa: Institutional Imperative and Faculty Apathy. The 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Hotel Dann Carlton, Quito, Ecuador.

 Oct. 14-16, 2015. Mediating Cultural Issues in Cross-National Supervision of Doctoral Research: Concept Mapping to Enhance Critical Dialogue. Higher Education and Research for Africa.  1st CODESRIA Africa Diaspora Support to Africa Universities Program Research Partnership Networks Methodological Workshop, Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.

April. 11, 2015. Identifying Issues with Faculty Authority and Security (with Guy Senese & JeanAnn Foley). 1st NAU AAUP Conference, Contingent Faculty: The New Majority and Impacts on Higher Education. 

Oct., 15 - 19, 2014. Knowledge Production and Quality Assurance in Kenyan State Universities. 32nd Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Springhill Suites by Marriott, Downtown Denver at Metro State.

Dec., 28 - 30, 2013. Pastoralists Education and Learning Outcomes in ASAL Regions of Kenya: Continuity and Change in Exclusion and Inclusion. Paper Presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India.

Nov., 20 - 23, 2011. Outsiders Within: Exclusion and Isolation of Third World Faculty in American Universities. Paper Presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Hotel Pestana, Salvador De Bahia, Brazil.

Oct., 7 – 9, 2010. Our University: Ethnicity and University Development in Kenya. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Marriott Savannah Riverfront, Savannah, Georgia.

 

Oct., 26 – 28, 2009. Anticipated Development: East African Private Higher Education in its Global Context. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, Elmina Beach Resort, Cape Coast, Ghana.

 

Oct., 26 - 28, 2008. From Academic Elites to Managed Professionals: The Decline of the Academic Profession in Africa. Round Table Panel Presentation at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, October 26-28, Willow Valley Resort and Conference Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

 

Nov., 18 – 20, 2007. Transformation Turbulence: Grounded Theory and African Higher Education Transformation. Paper Presented at the 25th Association of Third World Studies Annual Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Lima, Peru. 

 

Nov., 2 - 4, 2006. Public Aid, Private Conditions: Tied Aid, Globalization and USA- Africa Higher Education Relations. Paper Presented at the 24th Annual Association for Third World Studies Conference, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 

 

Nov., 20 – 22, 2005. Changing the Course: Equity and Policy shift in Higher Education Financing in Kenya. Paper Presented at the 23rd Annual Association for Third World Studies Conference, Hotel Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  

 

Oct., 7 – 9, 2004. Loose Coupling, Vouchers and Informal Training: What Kenyan Universities can Learn. Paper Presented at 22nd Annual Association for Third World Studies Conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Macon, GA, USA. 

 

Nov., 18 – 20, 1999. Gender and Socio-Structural Configurations in Educational Administration: The Kenyan Experience. Paper Presented at 17th Annual Association for Third World Studies Conference, Herradura Resort and Golf Club, San Jose, Costa Rica. 

 

Dec., 12 – 18, 1994. University Students, Student Organizations and National Politics as Antecedents of Democratization Crisis in the governance of Kenya's Public Universities: A case Study of Kenyatta University. Paper Presented at the Pan-African Colloquium on Educational innovation in Post-colonial Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 

 

Oct., 25 – 27, 1994. The Crisis of Governance in Kenya's Public Universities; Reflections on National Politics and Institutional decline. Paper presented at the Southern Africa Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES) Conference, Oasis Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana. 

 

Jun., 14 – 17, 1994. Democratizing the financing of Education in a Declining Economy: The case of educational subsidies in Kenya. Paper Presented at the All- Africa conference on Education and Democracy, I.C.I.P.E., Nairobi, Kenya. 

 

May 2 – 5, 1993. Basic Education in Kenya: Constrains and Strategies towards Democratization. Paper presented at the I. C. J. Seminar on Sectorial Studies Focusing on Kenya's future Policy Reforms, The Abadares Country Club, Nyeri, Kenya.  

 

(ix) Seminars and Workshop papers

 

Nov., 27 – Dec., 10, 1994. Origins and Perceptions on Universities, Students and Students' Organizations of Kenyatta University Student Leaders, Kenya. Research Report presented at the International Seminar on Education and the changing Society-Challenges for Education Research, Training and Policy. Berlin, Germany. 

 

May 20 – 22, 1993. Adult Education and Democratization in Kenya: An Exploration of Rationale, Goals and directions. Paper presented at the Regional Workshop on Education and Democratization in East Africa, Fairview Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. 

 

(x) University Symposium / Seminar Papers

 

Apr., 17, 2006. Prometheus Re-bound: Privatization, Quasi-Marketization and New Managerialism in African Higher Education Reform—A Preliminary Analysis. Faculty Research Center, College of Education, Northern Arizona University.   

 

Jun., 20, 1992. Kenya's Public Universities in the eras of political monism and political pluralism: Abridgment of Academic Freedom and Future Prospects. Department of Educational Foundations, Kenyatta University. 

 

Sept., 25, 1991. The development of Universities and it's implications for Kenya: A Historio-comparative Perspective. Department of Educational Foundations, Kenyatta University. 

 

(xi) Grant Awards

 

February 26, 2024. Reimagining DEI in Africa’s University Spaces: The Kenyan Experience. Proposal submitted to the Scholarly and Creativity Awards Program (SCA), Northern Arizona University. AWARDED.

 

Dec. 7, 2021. Munene, Ishmael, Tony Cuevas, Emily Evans, Frances Riemer, & Gerald Woods. Cultural Storytelling as Research: How youth agency and restorative practices can transform schools and communities impacted by historical trauma. Proposal submitted to the Spencer Foundation, Research-Practice Partnership Grant Program. NOT AWARDED.

 

Sept.13, 2019: Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald; Munene, Ishmael; Fongua, Samuel; Mtawa, Ntimi and Kibona, Bertha (P.I.s). Understanding the shifting dynamism between higher education, state and society: A Revisit of the 1970 Conference outcomes and the 2015 Higher Education Summit Action Plan for revitalizing Higher Education for Africa’s Development, CODESRIA Meaning-Making Research Initiative (MRI) Program. AWARDED.

 

Dec. 2018: Munene, Ishmael (P.I.). Ensuring All Children Learn: Lessons on Inclusion and Equity from the South, People’s Action for Learning Network (PAL) Research and Publication Project. AWARDED. 

 

March 31, 2015: Munene, Ishmael (P.I). Grant to facilitate editing and production of edited volume, Education for All: Dilemmas in System-Wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa, Twaweza East Africa Grants Program. AWARDED.

 

Oct., 2012 Munene, Ishmael I. (P.I). Consulting Contract for Research and Academic Writing for Twaweza Initiative for Uwezo East Africa.  Contract Grant. AWARDED.

 

April.5, 2011. Munene, Ishmael I. (P.I). Building the Periphery Sector: Multi-Campus University Systems and Implications for Access, Quality, and Governance in Kenya. Proposal submitted to the NAU College of Education Dean’s Research Grant. AWARDED.

 

April 1, 2011. Munene, Ishmael I. (P.I). Building a Multi-Campus University System in Kenya: Implications for Access, Quality and Governance in Kenya.  Proposal submitted to the NAU Faculty Grants Program (FGP). AWARDED.

 

Jun., 2010. Munene, Ishmael I.  EDF 672 Comparative Education Web Course Development Grant, Web Course Development Grants, Distance Learning Services, Northern Arizona University. AWARDED. 

 

Jan., 2009. Munene, Ishmael I (P.I), Sense G. & Sujo-Montes, L (Co-P. I’s). Distance Learning Technology in Innovative Teacher Education (DiLeTEC) for Marginalized Groups in Kenya: A Collaborative Support Partnership between Kenyatta University, University of Nairobi (Kenya) and Northern Arizona University (USA).  Proposal Submitted to the USAID Africa-U.S. Higher Education Planning Grants. NOT AWARDED.

 

May, 2008. How Chairpersons Enhance International Faculty Integration at NAU: A Grounded Theory Study.  Proposal submitted to the President’s Academic Diversity and Equity Research Program, Northern Arizona University. AWARDED.

 

Dec., 2007. Private Response to Public Threat: Public - Private university interactions in Kenya.  Proposal submitted to the Spencer Foundation, The Relation between Education and Social Opportunity Program. NOT AWARDED.

 

Feb., 2005. The Politics and Economics of Higher Education Transformation: Impact of Global Privatization, Quasi-Marketization and New Managerialism in Kenya. Proposal submitted the Intramural Grant Program, Northern Arizona University. AWARDED. 

 

Feb., 2000. Re-Conceptualizing Higher Education Management in an Era of Structural Change: Shared Experiences Between Kenya and the US (With Dr. Fred Dembowski). Proposal submitted to the Colleges and Universities Affiliation Program (CUAP) Program, US Department of State. Favorable Review. NOT AWARDED.

 

Apr., 1999. Equity Closet: Faculty Academic Values Under Pressure for Equity in Higher Education. Proposal submitted to the SUNY-Albany, Graduate Students Organization Research Grant Program. AWARDED. 

 

Jul., 1999. Equity Closet: Faculty Academic Values Under Pressure for Equity in Higher Education. Proposal submitted to the Deans’ Committee, University of Nairobi. AWARDED. 

 

(xii) Academic Honors / Awards

 

April 18, 2024: Awarded Fulbright US Scholar for Kenya 2024-2025 Academic Year.  Teaching Education Research & Comparative Education.  Research Project: Reimagining DEI in Africa’s University Spaces: The Kenyan Experience.

 

May, 2018. Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (CADF) Award. Awarded a second CADF; One of the 100 awardees in USA and Canada.  Fellowship undertaken at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, June – August 2018.

 

Nov. 20-22, 2016. Awarded (with Dr. Sara Ruto) The Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Scholarship Award, for the best Article on Africa published in the Journal of Third World Studies, Pastoralist Education in Kenya: Continuity in Exclusion in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL), XXXI, 1 pp. 133-159

 

May, 2014. Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (CADF) Award. One of the 100 awardees in USA and Canada.  Fellowship taken at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, June – August 2014.

 

August 1, 2012 – July 31, 2013: Sabbatical Fellowship awarded by the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

 

Oct., 28, 2008. The Excellence in Research Award.  Presented by the African Studies Research Forum annual meetings, Willow Valley Resort and Conference Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

 

Nov., 1999. School of Education, EAPS Dept. & GSO, SUNY-Albany, Travel grant to attend the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) 17th Annual Conference, Costa Rica. 

 

Aug. – Sep., 1995. United States Information Service (USIS) Fellowship to attend the XIVAmerican Civilization Course at the American Studies Research Center, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. 

 

May – Jul., 1995. German Foundation for International Development (D.S.E) Scholarship to attend the University Staff Development Program (UNISTAFF) course at the University of Kassel, Germany.