William G. Tierney is director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education. Former President of the USC Academic Senate, he chaired the Ph.D. program for the USC Rossier School of Education and chaired the University Committee on Academic Review. He also served as president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. His research interests pertain to organizational performance, equity, and faculty roles and rewards. Dr. Tierney teaches courses on the administration and governance of higher education and on qualitative methods.

His recent publications include The Impact of Culture on Organizational Decision-making (Stylus Publishing, 2008); New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-profit Colleges and Universities (with Guilbert Hentschke, John Hopkins, 2007);Trust and the Public Good: Examining the Cultural Conditions of Academic Work (Peter Lang, 2006); Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access: Many Routes, Difficult Paths (Peter Lang, 2006); and Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities (Sage, 1999).

He is currently involved in a variety of funded projects that pertain to two broad areas: equity and access, and governance and decision-making. Dr. Tierney conducts research pertaining to the effectiveness of programs that prepare low-income youth for college; he is also involved in projects geared toward improving governance and decision-making in colleges and universities.

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