Publications

Featured Publications

  • Shared Leadership in Higher Education

    Shared Leadership in Higher Education

    Kezar and Holcombe co-authored a report in the latest ACE Center for Policy Research and Strategy’s Viewpoints: Voices from the Field.
  • Emerging Issues In Federal Higher Education Law

    Emerging Issues In Federal Higher Education Law

    An introductory report for faculty and administrators to raise awareness about issues key to federal higher education law, in light of the Higher Education Act’s impending reauthorization.
  • Understanding DACA and Higher Education

    Understanding DACA and Higher Education

    A brief overview of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the implications for educational organizations and how to respond to the current climate in the U.S.
  • The University as a Sanctuary

    The University as a Sanctuary

    We offer a brief overview of what the traditional understanding of a sanctuary has been and consider the current calls for colleges and universities to become sanctuaries. Possible steps for those working in higher ed are offered.

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College Access & Financial Aid

  • Emerging Issues In Federal Higher Education Law

    Emerging Issues In Federal Higher Education Law

    An introductory report for faculty and administrators to raise awareness about issues key to federal higher education law, in light of the Higher Education Act’s impending reauthorization.
  • The University as a Sanctuary

    The University as a Sanctuary

    We offer a brief overview of what the traditional understanding of a sanctuary has been and consider the current calls for colleges and universities to become sanctuaries. Possible steps for those working in higher ed are offered.
  • Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

    Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

    We share an overview of activities conducted and lessons learned from the first two years of the grant. Our intent is to provide readers with insights into the process of conceptualizing and implementing a large-scale practitioner-oriented research project.
  • New Report from the USC Community College Project

    New Report from the USC Community College Project

    Melguizo and team have issued a new report on their findings from their U.S. Department of Education IES project.
  • FITW Project Summary

    FITW Project Summary

    Over four years, the Pullias Center will implement the college application game in schools across California through a Web-based platform. The role-playing game, along with an extensive student-centered social media campaign and support materials for teachers and counselors, offers schools online tools to actively engage students in preparing for college.

  • Financial Aid and Access: Getting the Word Out—Research Findings and Possible Practices by Mari Luna De La Rosa and Paz Oliverez

Academic Governance & Change

  • Shared Leadership in Higher Education

    Shared Leadership in Higher Education

    Kezar and Holcombe co-authored a report in the latest ACE Center for Policy Research and Strategy’s Viewpoints: Voices from the Field.
  • Understanding DACA and Higher Education

    Understanding DACA and Higher Education

    A brief overview of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the implications for educational organizations and how to respond to the current climate in the U.S.
  • Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century

    Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century

    The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. As colleges and universities evolve to meet the changing demands of society, how might their leaders design viable alternative faculty models?  
  • Communities of Transformation and their Work Scaling STEM Reform

    Communities of Transformation and their Work Scaling STEM Reform

    Kezar and Gehrke issue their findings from an NSF-funded study examining four STEM communities in order to better understand the roles of these communities in advancing the goals of scaling STEM education reform. View their findings here.
  • Prospects for Vocational Education in the United States

    Prospects for Vocational Education in the United States

    The 2nd in a series of reports by Lanford, Maruco, and Tierney, investigating other possible obstacles to effective implementation of career-oriented education in the US by looking at the German vocational education system.

Equity & Diversity

Miscellaneous Publications

  • Futures in Urban Education

    Recently, USC President C.L. Max Nikias sat down with University Professor William G. Tierney to talk about leadership.

A New Game in Town: Competitive Higher Education by Lloyd Armstrong
This paper outlines how the system of higher education faces increased competition from the for-profit sector. This competition foreshadows structural
changes in faculty work and university organization.

Creating the Inclusive Campus: The Essential Role of Faculty Diversity by John Brooks Slaughter
John Slaughter looks at the demographic changes in academe and reminds us of the importance of diversity for preparing students to live in a
democracy.

The Coming Transformation of the American University by Roger Benjamin
In this paper, Roger Benjamin tracks how global changes will impact higher education. Based on these conclusions, he then looks toward redesigned mission statements that focus on K-16 education.

Developing the High Performance Organization: Impediments To Change and Innovation in Colleges and Universities by William G. Tierney
In light of recent and expected changes in higher education, this paper considers how we might create a climate for organizational change and innovation. Tierney suggests that the way to increase organizational effectiveness is through an attention to the structural and cultural processes that circumscribe organizational action.

Higher Education at a Crossroads by Arthur Levine
This paper offers a discussion of distance learning and its implications for higher education.

The University After 9/11 by William G. Tierney
This paper offers a discussion of academic freedom in the post-September 11 era and its implications for higher education
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Books by Faculty

Rethinking Education and Poverty (2015)
William G. Tierney (Eds.)

Postsecondary Play: The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education (2014)
William G. Tierney, Zoe Corwin, Tracy Fullerton, Gisele Ragusa

New Players Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities (2007)
William G. Tierney, Guilbert C. Hentschke

Trust and the Public Good (2006)
William G. Tierney

Governance and the Public Good (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education)
William G. Tierney (Ed.)

Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access: Many Routes, Difficult Paths
William G. Tierney, Julia E. Colyar (Eds.)

Higher Education for the Public Good: Emerging Voices from a National Movement (2005)
Adrianna Kezar, Anthony Chambers, and John Burkhardt (Eds.)

Preparing for College: Nine Elements of Effective Outreach (2004)
W G. Tierney, Zoë Corwin, Julia Colyar (Eds.)

Restructuring Shared Governance in Higher Education: New Directions for Higher Education (2004)
Vicente Lechuga, William G. Tierney (Eds.)

Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm (2004)
William G. Tierney (Ed.)

Taking the Reins: Institutional Transformation in Higher Education (2003)
Peter Eckel, Adrianna Kezar

Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Students (Frontiers in Education) (2002)
William G. Tierney and Linda S. Hagedorn

Faculty Work in Schools of Education: Rethinking Roles and Rewards for the Twenty-first Century (2001)
William G. Tierney

Rethinking Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe