William G. Tierney

Featured Work
Tierney, W. G. and Hentschke, G. C. (2011). Making it happen: Increasing college access and participation in California higher education . La Jolla, CA: National University System Institute for Policy Research.

Other recent works
Tierney, W. G. (in press). The conundrum of profit-making institutions in higher education. In Laura Perna (Ed.), Preparing today's students for tomorrow's jobs in metropolitan America. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Tierney, W. G., & Relles, S. (2011, November 2). The looming crisis of remedial writing. The Washington Post. Garcia, L. D., & Tierney, W. G. (2011). Undocumented immigrants in higher education: A preliminary analysis. Teachers College Record, 113, 2739–2776. Hentschke, Guilbert C., Lechuga, Vicente M., & Tierney, William G. (Eds.). (2010). For-profit colleges and universities: Schools or businesses: Their markets, regulation, performance and place in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing LLC. Findlay, Christopher, & Tierney, William G. (Eds.). (2010). Globalization and tertiary education in the Asia Pacific: The changing nature of a dynamic market. Singapore: World Scientific. Tierney, William G. and Colyar Julia E. (Eds.). (2009). Urban high school students and the challenge of access: Many routes, difficult paths. (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Peter Lang. Tierney, William G., Bailey, Thomas, Constantine, Jill, Finkelstein, Neal, and Hurd, Nicole (2009). Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do: A practice guide (NCEE # 2009-4066). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Tierney, William G. & Hentschke, Guilbert C. (2007). New players, different game: U nderstanding the rise of for-profit colleges and universities. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.