books by William G. Tierney     books:       Trust And the Public Good: Examining the Cultural Conditions of Academic Work (Counterpoints: Studies in the ... William G. Tierney Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 Trust and the Public Good considers the role of trust in academic life?as related to social networks, communities, and organizational communication. The text also considers the unique relationship between higher education and the public, noting that trust is essential to fulfillment of the public good. Utilizing a series of institutional case studies, William G. Tierney maintains that the status quo is untenable for higher education. ...             Restructuring Shared Governance in Higher Education: New Directions for Higher Education (J-B HE Single Issue ...1 review Jossey-Bass, 2004 Point by point William Tierney and Vicente Lechuga (editors) have assembled an interesting array of essays that cover a wide variety of faculty governance topics. Included are discussions about structure, leadership, relationships, and trust. I found this resource valuable when researching faculty governance to develop a conceptual framework for further research. Especially helpful was Tierney and James T. ...             The Impact of Culture on Organizational Decision-Making: Theory and Practice in Higher Education William G. Tierney Stylus Publishing, 2008 Colleges and universities are currently undergoing the most significant challenges they have faced since World War II. Rising costs, increased competition from for-profit providers, the impact of technology, and the changing desires and needs of consumers have combined to create a dynamic tension for those who work in, and study, postsecondary education. What worked yesterday is unlikely to work tomorrow. The status quo or bromides such as ?stay ...             Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XII John Smart, William G. Tierney Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997             Academic Freedom and Tenure: between fiction and reality.(analysis of portrayals of academia in novels): An ... William G. Tierney Ohio State University Press, 2004 This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Ohio State University Press on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Academic Freedom and Tenure: ...             Preparing For College: Nine Elements of Effective Outreach (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education) State University of New York Press, 2004             Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume VIII William G. Tierney Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992             The Responsive University - Restructuring for High Performance (Reinventing Academe) John Hopkins University Press, 1998 We suggest that if academe is to go to the root causes of the problem, we need to rethink and, of consequence, restructure what we do. Change ought not to come from around the edges, but rather go to some of our core activities. Many previous managerial remedies were more concerned with improving systems that already exist than with inventing new ones. Our intent here is different, less instrumental and more strategic. Instead of improving a ...             Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume I William G. Tierney Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985             Urban High School Students And the Challenge of Access: Many Routes, Difficult Paths (Higher ed: Questions ... Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examines the different pathways that brought these students to where they are: living in poverty, attending overcrowded schools, and the pressure to be the first in their families to attend college are just a few of the challenges these students must battle en route to college and that impact their chances of ...             Meeting the Mandate:: Renewing the College and Departmental Curriculum (J-B ASHE Higher Education Report ... William Toombs, William G. Tierney Jossey-Bass, 1991 Presents the background theory and practice of curriculum change. Discusses current academic and professional curricular practices, and the curricular debate. Considers reconceptualizing, planning and implementing organizational and curriculum change.             Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm1 review The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 Faculty governance: An enduring storm Tierney continues to layout a plan for the perfect faculty governance system amidst the perfect storm. But, there is no better time than right now to have an honest discussion of the competing elements in higher education. These elements include the senior administration and the faculty themselves. Although we read about rampant apathy in the faculty ranks, Tierney is able to pull out those ...             Faculty Work in Schools of Education: Rethinking Roles and Rewards for the Twenty-First Century (Suny Series, ... State University of New York Press, 2001 A full-bodied, robust discussion of issues of concern to faculty in schools of education.             Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Students (S U N Y Series, Frontiers in ...1 review State University of New York Press, 2002 An Essential Guide This book is an excellent guide to understanding many of the issues and challenges confronting those who work with students from underserved backgrounds. Although there's a great deal of statistical data, it's easy to skip it unless you're a data geek (not me) and get right to the clear and humane conclusions stemming from what appears to be excellent research. Well written and focused, the ...             Enhancing Promotion, Tenure and Beyond: Faculty Socialization as a Cultural Process (J-B ASHE Higher ... William G. Tierney, Robert A. Rhoads Jossey-Bass, 1993 Reports on the significance and implications of faculty socialization, including the several levels of culture that affect socialization, and approaches to conceptualizing socialization. Discusses socialization of novice, senior, women and minority faculty, and examines the rituals of tenure and promotion.             Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education) William G. Tierney, Estele Mara Bensimon State University of New York Press, 1996             Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Studies in ... William G. Tierney Bergin & Garvey Paperback, 1993 Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals. Tierney believes that the problems are moral. He suggests that by following principles used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, institutions of higher learning can model themselves on ...             New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities William G. Tierney, Guilbert C. Hentschke The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 As the economic value of education increases, as more students seek to complete college courses while forgoing the "undergraduate experience," and as funding for public higher education decreases, the for-profit higher education sector has exploded. In New Players, Different Game, William G. Tierney and Guilbert C. Hentschke compare for-profit and not-for-profit models of higher education to assess the strengths and weaknesses of both. ...             Representation and the Text: Re-Framing the Narrative Voice State University of New York Press, 1997 This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice," and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies. Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations--from the "view from nowhere" to the view from ...              search for books communities, conceptions, conditions, counterpoints, curriculum, decision-making, departmental, difference, directions, for-profit, governance, increasing, negotiating, organizational, performance, portrayals, possibilities, postmodern, promotion, re-framing, reinventing, representation, responsive, restructuring, rethinking, socialization, twenty-first, understanding, universities, university books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: El lí­der como orientador (Spanish Edition) we recommend Faculty governance: An enduring storm leave a comment home  impressum - about us