A MARSHALL PLAN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Friday, March 16, 2007, 1pm EST

Special Guests: Dr. William Tierney, director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education. He is the past president of the Academic Senate of the University of Southern California. 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 Preparing for College: Nine Elements of Effective Outreach (edited with Julia Colyar and Zoë Blumberg Corwin; SUNY Press, 2005), Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm (editor; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), and Building the Responsive Campus: Creating High Performance Colleges and Universities (Sage Publications, 1999).

This session of EPILive will focus on Dr. Tierney's "Marshall Plan" for increasing college access.

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