The International Policy research area explores the effects of globalization on higher education throughout the world, with a special emphasis on understanding the policy environments that maintain and improve institutional quality. The Institute's activities in the International Policy area support collaborative networks of scholars, policy-makers, and higher education professionals in Israel, India, and in several countries across Africa. This research area is directed by Dr. Teboho Moja, clinical professor of higher education in the Department of Administration, Technology and Leadership.
Collaborative Projects
Summer School - From Principles to Practice: Higher Education Policy and Research Project Management
The 2013 Summer School is co-hosted with the Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) and other partners in Cape Town from Jan 20 to Jan 25. The seminar will reflect on two increasingly important but seldom-addressed topics in doctoral education: research project management and policy formation in higher education. The program is research-oriented and the existing projects of the invited professors will serve as examples through which the students will be introduced to challenges and recent changes in the research and policy worlds. NOMA Summer School aims at giving the participants an inside view into the working life of an externally-funded research project and the process of application, planning for outcomes, and possible policy effects.
Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA)
The Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA) is a specialized search portal for accessing research on higher education in Africa from around the world. In collaboration with international news services, journals, publishers, universities, and NGO's, HERANA makes available timely and important scholarship on African colleges and universities.
Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET)
The Center for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) is a non-governmental organization that engages a network of international scholars in research projects on capacity building in African higher education. CHET's program areas respond to the need for research and advocacy, performance indicators for African institutions, knowledge building and curriculum development in higher education programs, and ongoing policy dialogues around critical issues in higher education across African nations.
Higher Education in Israel
This project draws public attention to the declining conditions of higher education in Israel through collaborative meetings with Israeli and American senior faculty and policy makers and by publicizing timely and critical research on Israeli higher education policy.
University World News
University World News is an international online newspaper dedicated to providing coverage on issues of higher education across the globe. University World News engages a network of three dozen journalists in two dozen countries to provide weekly analysis, features, and news reports aimed at higher education readers worldwide.
Publications
Moja, T. (2008). Institutional Challenges and Implications for HEIs: Transformations, Mission and Vision for the 21st Century. In Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Higher Education in the World (3rd Edition). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Moja, T. (2007). Politics of Exclusion in Higher Education: The Inadequacy of Gender Issues in the Globalization Debates. In Ndri Assie Lumumba (Ed.), Women and Higher Education in Africa: Reconceptualizing Gender-Based Human Capabilities and Upgrading Human Rights to Knowledge. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Ceparred.
Cloete, N., Maassen, P., Fehnel, R., Moja, T., Gibbon, T. & Perold, H. (Eds.). (2006). Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities. New York: Taylor and Francis.
Cloete, N., Pillay, P., Badat, S., & Moja, T. (2004). National Policy and a Regional Response in South African Higher Education. Oxford: James Currey Publishers.
Courses
HPSE-GE 2152
HPSE-GE 2157
HPSE-GE 2156
HPSE-GE 2153
International Scholars
David Augusto Gomez Gamboa, Visiting Scholar
Dr. Gomez Gamboa is a member of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Univerity of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of the School of Law. In addition to his work in the university, he is the Director of the Aula Abierta Venezuela, an NGO whose main objective is to promote academic freedom and human rights related to the university community. His research with the Steinhardt Institute revolves around studying academic freedom, higher education, and institutional autonomy in a comparative public international law context of the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
Penghu Li, Visiting Scholar
Penghu Li is a Ph.D. student at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China. He is spending the 2017-2018 academic year at the Steinhardt Institute studying organizational change in "world-class universities." In particular, he is exploring what should Chinese universities learn from the American experience in building world-class universities.
News
Steinhardt Institute Fellow, Teboho Moja, will participate in a three-day seminar to discuss the development of a new book on higher education in South Africa since 2000. The event, facilitated by the Center for Higher Education Transformation, will engage higher education specialists from South Africa and around the world in dialogue about higher education reforms in South Africa.
Professor Moja was the executive director and commissioner to the National Commission on Higher Education under President Nelson Mandela. She has also served as special adviser to the minister of education in South Africa and chair of the Board of Trustees of South Africa's largest university, the University of South Africa.
The meeting and forthcoming publication have received generous funding from the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation.