Bring World-Class Black Scholarship to Your Institution
B3D provides universities, tourism boards, NGOs, cultural institutions, and community-based organizations with access to a highly curated network of Black doctoral professionals and scholars capable of contributing global perspectives, applied expertise, and culturally diverse scholarship.
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Why Partner with B3D
Diverse Global Perspectives
Access a curated network of Black doctoral professionals and scholars capable of contributing global perspectives, applied expertise, and culturally diverse scholarship to your institution or organization.
Strengthen Internationalization
B3D supports universities seeking to strengthen internationalization efforts, expand global engagement, and diversify academic perspectives through meaningful cross-cultural collaboration.
Curated Scholar Matching
B3D handles the matching process, connecting your institution or organization with scholars whose expertise, research focus, and engagement style align with your academic priorities and institutional goals.
Flexible Engagement Formats
Partner institutions and organizations can host B3D scholars for guest lectures, workshops, faculty collaboration, research exploration, executive education, mentorship, and speaking engagements, tailored to your needs.
Reduced Administrative Burden
B3D manages the logistical coordination between your institution or organization and deployed scholars, reducing the administrative complexity typically associated with international academic exchange programs.
Foster Cross-Cultural Collaboration
B3D deployments create lasting connections between your faculty, students, and visiting scholars, fostering ongoing research partnerships, collaborative publications, and sustained international relationships.
The Partnership Process
How Institutional Partnerships Work
Express Interest
Contact B3D to express your institution's or organization's interest in hosting a deployed scholar. Share your academic priorities, preferred engagement formats, and available timeframes.
Partnership Agreement
B3D works with your institution or organization to establish a partnership framework that outlines engagement expectations, logistical arrangements, and mutual commitments.
Scholar Matching
B3D identifies and presents scholar candidates from the cohort whose expertise and interests align with your institution's or organization's needs. You review profiles and confirm your preferred match.
Deployment & Engagement
Your matched scholar arrives for their two-week deployment. Week 1 is dedicated to Academic Deployment: lectures, workshops, research collaboration, or speaking engagements with your institution or organization. Week 2 is reserved for cultural heritage exploration, during which the scholar engages in curated Diaspora-connected cultural programming throughout the destination. Free time for rest and relaxation is also built into the itinerary.
Partner Types
Who Can Partner with B3D
B3D welcomes partnerships with a wide range of academic and professional organizations committed to expanding diverse global perspectives and fostering cross-cultural intellectual exchange.
- Universities & Colleges
- Research Institutions
- Professional Organizations
- Think Tanks & Policy Centers
- Executive Education Programs
- Academic Conferences & Forums
- Tourism Boards
- Non-Government Organizations
- Community-Based Organizations
- Government Agencies
- Cultural Institutions
Ready to Host a B3D Scholar?
Reach out to begin the partnership conversation.