William G. Tierney
Expert on higher education, including policy, faculty, culture and minorities
University Professor
Co-Director, Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC
Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, USC Rossier School of Education
Expertise
- higher education policy analysis
- governance and administration in higher education
- 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 academe
- 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 academe
- gay and lesbian studies (LGBT)
- ethnography
Additional Information
- Author, Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High-Performance Colleges and Universities (1999), Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy (1997), The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance (1997), Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the 21st Century (1993), Official Encouragement, Institutional Discouragement: Minorities in Academe – The Native American Experience (1992), Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas: Transformative Leadership in Higher Education (1989), and The Web of Leadership: The Presidency in Higher Education (1988)
- Co-author, Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (1997) and Collegiate Culture and Leadership Strategies (1988)
