Teboho Moja information

Teboho Moja is an educationist, academic, author and activist. She is a clinical professor of higher education and the department chair of administration, leadership, and technology at New York University. Additionally, she serves as an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, a visiting research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and a distinguished fellow of the International Institute of Migration and Diaspora Studies at the University of Guyana.^[1]

Moja's research primarily focuses on higher education policy and globalization of higher education, particularly in Africa. She has authored and co-authored several journal articles and 3 books including Higher Education Policy, Institutions and Globalisation: New Dynamics in South Africa After 1994, National Policy and a Regional Response in South African Higher Education, and Transformation in Higher Education – Global Pressures and Local Realities.

Moja has received the Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award,^[2] the National Research Foundation Lifetime Achiever Award,^[3] Women in International Education Award, and Graduate Students Star Award, all in 2019. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pretoria in 2021.^[4]

Moja is a Fellow of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council,^[5] and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa since 2013.^[6] She serves on editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa and African Journal of Higher Education Studies and Development (Nigeria).