William G. Tierney is University Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. A past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Association, Tierney was awarded the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award from ASHE, and the Distinguished Research Award from Division J of AERA. Tierney is a member of the National Academy of Education, and an AERA Fellow.  His most recent book is Get Real: 49 Challenges Facing Higher Education (SUNY, 2020).