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The Power (and necessity) of Students in Systemic Change


Posted: Sep 28 2017 by
Dr. Rob Shorette
Marcos Montes
Marcos Montes and Dr. Rob Shorette
Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Target Audience: Graduate Students, Transfer Students, First Generation College Students, Teaching/Learning Assistants, Underrepresented Minority Students, Undergraduate Non-Majors, First-year College Students, Undergraduate Majors
Program Components: Supporting Students:Student Engagement

Almost any change in higher education is difficult. And slow. Systemic change, which produces seismic shifts in the operations and culture of an organization, is even more difficult to achieve. Or in the words of another ASCN blogger Jeanne Century, "the stakes are much higher and the challenge is greater." Particularly for public higher education institutions, there is no shortage of stakeholder groups with keen interests in the outcomes of systemic change efforts, including faculty, staff, administrators, lawmakers, community members, and the general public. Certainly, a process that authentically includes all of these stakeholder groups and reflects the varying perspectives each bring to the table is essential to successful change. However, no group has as much at stake when it comes to systemic change in higher education as students. More

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