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Tierney uses research derived from ethnographies, case studies and interviews to address the problems that many academic institutions have today in clinging to the practices and organization of the past.

Educational change --- Universities and colleges --- Enseignement --- Universités --- Administration. --- Faculty. --- Réforme --- Administration --- Corps enseignant --- Campus planning. --- Organizational change. --- College campuses --- Educational planning --- College administrators --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Planning

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"The message of this book is that understanding organizational culture is critical for those who recognize that academe must change, but are unsure how to make that change happen. An understanding of culture enables an organization's participants to interpret the institution to themselves and others, and in consequence, to propel the institution forward." "An organization's culture is reflected in what is done, how it is done, and who is involved in doing it. It concerns decisions, actions, and communication on an instrumental and symbolic level. This book 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."--Jacket.

Universities and colleges --- College environment. --- College environment --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Campus climate (College environment) --- Environment, College --- Environment, University --- University environment --- School environment --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Education, Higher --- Administration --- Decision making --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Decision making.

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Scholarly yet provocatively written, Academic Outlaws presents a discussion of how life in the academic world is experienced by gay men and lesbian women. Using a narrative style that mixes autobiography, case study data and fiction, William G Tierney provides timely insight into the challenges gays and lesbians face in higher education and proposes an alternative process for redefining long-established cultural norms.

Culture -- Study and teaching (Higher). --- Gay and lesbian studies. --- Gay culture. --- Gay teachers. --- Gays -- Identity. --- Queer theory. --- Culture --- Gays --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Identity.

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"Relational sociology was conceived by theorists frustrated by what they viewed as an incomplete accounting of social reality. Torn between notions of structural rigidity on the one hand and rational choice individualism on the other, relational sociologists have sought new units of analysis. Social reality, they have argued, is manufactured through relationships. People are who they are, and society is what it is, not because of some individual or collective "essence," but rather because of the networks that social beings build amongst one another. Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities demonstrates the value of introducing new relational methods and epistemologies in educational research. Across seven original chapters, the editors, William G. Tierney and Suneal Kolluri, and a series of leading and emerging scholars in the field examine the roles and significance of ongoing transactions among connected social actors-students, peers, families, teachers-in a variety of institutional contexts. The book explores various uses and applications of relational sociology in education while highlighting its promise to provide fresh insight into intractable problems of inequity in United States schools"--

Universities and colleges --- Sociological aspects. --- Relational sociology.