Böcker av William G. Tierney

Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

The impetus for this book derives from the unusually high percentage of minority students generally, and Native American students specifically, who do not complete a collegiate degree. It offers suggestions based on longitudinal data for empowering Native American and minority students at the organizational, curricular and classroom levels.

After examining the ways in which participants at the seven colleges and universities view different curricular concepts, the author illustrates how the individuals view one another's actions about the curriculum.

The impetus for this book derives from the unusually high percentage of minority students generally, and Native American students specifically, who do not complete a collegiate degree. It offers suggestions based on longitudinal data for empowering Native American and minority students at the organizational, curricular and classroom levels.

Considers various facets of academic culture, discusses how to study it, how to analyze it, and how to improve it in order to move colleges and universities aggressively into the future while maintaining core academic values. This book presents eight key articles on organizational culture in higher education.

This book is a unique invitation to rethink some of the most basic assumptions of higher education.

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.

The author offers a critique of modern academe, as well as offering a proposal for making campuses more effective, which is to say meeting their 'client's' or 'customer's' needs.