Responsive University

William G. Tierney is the Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and the director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California. His books include Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe and Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the 21st Century.

The book's forward-thinking recommendations should provide useful guideposts as readers assess the challenges and constraints facing their own universities. -- Elaine El-Khawas Studies in Higher Education This book may startle some people... Definitely food for thought. Virginia Quarterly Review The deliberately challenging essays provide both compelling arguments and practical discussions of the implications of these arguments... Like Tierney's other works... this volume is well edited, well written, and challenging. Choice This book is about getting out of the box. It is about rethinking fundamental assumptions of higher education. To survive and thrive in the next century, colleges and universities will have to be responsive in the eyes of those being served. Future Survey Their critical, balanced guide to the for-profit sector presents a welcome antidote to the ill-informed hysteria that has greeted its arrival on both sides of the pond. -- Geoffrey Alderman Times Higher Education Supplement Of interest to scholars and students in education and social sciences, this text would also revitalize the entire university community's conversations on removing barriers for student access and outcomes. Recommended. Choice

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction. On The Road To Recovery And Renewal: Reinventing AcademeChapter 1. Listening to The People We ServeChapter 2. Tenure Is Dead. Long Live TenureChapter 3. Forming New Social PartnershipsChapter 4. The Implications Of The Changed Environment For Governance In Higher EducationChapter 5. Achieving High Performance: The Policy DimensionConclusion. The Responsive University In The Twenty-First CenturyContributors Index