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• William_G._Tierney abstract "William G. Tierney is an American scholar of higher education. He earned a master’s degree from Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in administration and policy analysis. He has had Fulbright Fellowships Scholarships to Latin America and Australia. He also was Scholar-in-Residence at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Tierney served as president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Link label from 2001-2002 and as president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Link label from 2012-2013. He is currently University Professor, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education Link label at the University of Southern California (USC) Link label. Under Tierney's direction, the Pullias Center serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. The center is involved with USC’s Game Lab in creating a suite of interactive web-based games for teenagers that enable them to develop successful strategies for applying to college. Tierney and the Pullias Center are housed in the Rossier School of Education.Tierney is a recognized expert on higher education, including policy analysis, governance, and administration; cultural leadership in higher education; decision making in higher education; faculty reward structures; organizational culture and its role in academic decision making, innovation, and organizational change in postsecondary education; power, ideology, and cultural politics in academia; equity issues in higher education; diversity issues in higher education; building communities of difference on the multicultural campus; Native Americans and other minorities in higher education; quality of faculty performance; faculty socialization as a cultural process; race, class, gender and sexual identity in the socialization of faculty; socialization and culture of college students; critical and feminist interpretations of higher education policy; anthropology of higher education; educational institutions as political and organizational cultures; organizational/institutional politics; affirmative action; for-profit universities; tenure reform; the college presidency; cultural politics in academia; gay and lesbian studies; and ethnography. Tierney is well known for his commitment to high-quality, rigorous qualitative research and strategic dissemination of knowledge. Tierney’s research and scholarship are both applied and theoretical and focus on increasing access to higher education, improving the performance of postsecondary institutions, and analyzing the quality of for-profit institutions. Tierney’s work has been funded by a wide range of sources including: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Irvine Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and Lumina Foundation for Education among others. The results of his work have appeared in numerous op-eds, journal articles, book chapters, and books. His most recent books are Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access and For-profit Colleges and Universities: Their Markets, Regulation, Performance and Place in Higher Education. He has chaired a panel for the U.S. Department of Education and the What Works Clearinghouse that resulted in the monograph: Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What Schools Can Do. He is currently involved in a life history project of low-income first generation high school students en route to college. He is also editing a book on the impact of technology and social media on tertiary education.Tierney teaches graduate courses on higher education policy, administration and governance, organizational behavior, and research design.Tierney's blog is entitled 21st Century Scholar Link label. The blog regularly features the work of prominent guest scholars from around the country including John Brooks Slaughter, Barry Munitz, and Yvonna Lincoln.".
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