This book provides readers with the theoretical foundations and innovative perspectives for undertaking qualitative research to influence policy and practice discussions.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Introduction

MARYBETH GASMAN

Preface: Examining Higher Education Policy and Organizations through Qualitative Research Methods

PENNY A. PASQUE AND VICENTE M. LECHUGA

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Refocusing Policy and Organization Scholarship on Inequality in American Higher Education: Legacy Lost

EDWARD P. ST. JOHN

Part I

Ethnography in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research

Chapter 2 The Utility of Qualitative Research to Inform Public Policy

RANDALL F. CLEMENS AND WILLIAM G. TIERNEY

Chapter 3 The Ethnographic organization: (Critical) Ethnography and the Organizational Analysis of Higher Education

RYAN EVELY GILDERSLEEVE AND BRENDA SIFUENTEZ

Part II

Case Study in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research

Chapter 4 Translating Qualitative Data into Policy Recommendations: Meta-analyses for Qualitative Researchers

YVONNA S. LINCOLN

Chapter 5 Critical Case Study as an Imperative for Organizational Activism and Institutional Change: Critical Methodologies in Higher Education Organization Research

PENNY A. PASQUE, LENA M. KHADER, AND COREY STILL

Part III

"Grit" in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research

Chapter 6 An Overview of Paradigms and the Introduction of Methodological Grit: Using Qualitative Methods to Inform Higher Education Policy and Practice

DANIEL J. ALMEIDA

Chapter 7 Revising the Grounds for the Study of Grit: Critical Qualitative Inquiry in Post-Secondary Education Organizational Research

LESLIE D. GONZALES

Part IV

National and Institutional Higher Education Organization and Policy Research

Chapter 8 Qualitative Research and Public Policy: Reconsidering Actionable Intelligence

JAMES T. MINOR AND CHARLENE MUTAMBA

Chapter 9 Transforming Higher Education Institutions through Critical Qualitative Leadership Inquiry

ROZANA CARDUCCI

Part V

The Imperative Nature of Qualitative Inquiry

Chapter 10 The Imperative Nature of Qualitative Inquiry for the Future of Higher Education Organization and Policy Research

PENNY A. PASQUE AND VINCE M. LECHUGA

Biographies of Contributors

Index

Penny A. Pasque is the Brian E. & Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor and Program Area Coordinator of Adult and Higher Education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

Vicente M. Lechuga is Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration at Texas A&M University, USA.