Change Leaders Critical Resources
What are the Critical Resources for Change Leaders?
This searchable collection contains documents and sites for those who are interested in leading change. Review the questions below to learn more about leading change and explore the curated resources in the collection.
The critical resource collection explains why the resources are useful for change leaders or those who want to become change leaders.
How can I lead change?
Anybody can be a change leader. If you are creating, facilitating, or advocating for change in STEM education, at any level of the higher education system, you are a change leader. Change leaders may be either formal or informal leaders -- graduate students, faculty members, education leaders, department chairs, professional developers, administrators, etc.
To effectively lead change, think carefully about what type of change you are trying to accomplish, and how you might accomplish this. Who else do you need to involve? What do you need to learn? What might the barriers be? What data might support your planning?
How can I support those who lead change?
Those supporting change leaders often have skills, connections, and/or authority that can be valuable to the change leader. Supports can be within the institution, from chairs and administrators, teaching and learning center staff, or other faculty. Outside the institution, professional organizations and other support networks can be critical.
Develop change leadership competencies
What professional development might they need, and how can they get it? How can you help them identify resources, barriers, and institutional context? How can you help them to access or collect relevant data?
Champion change leader's efforts
Make the work of change leaders work visible within and across departments, celebrate their efforts, and reward them as possible. You may act as a valuable liaison to other stakeholders, including those in positions of authority, translating the change leader's efforts to appropriate language.
Professional development resources for supporters of change leaders include leadership and facilitation training, training in organizational change, and involvement with organizations for professional developers (such as POD).
Review the resources below to learn more!
Change Topics (Working Groups)
Target Audience
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Developing the capacity of faculty to become institutional agents for Latinos in STEM
Developing the capacity of faculty to become institutional agents for Latinos in STEM Bensimon and Dowd. A report aimed at increasing STEM degree attainment for Latinos, through supporting faculty to act as ...
Target Audience: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, College/University Staff, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC: A Dean's Perspective
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC: A Dean's Perspective By Dean Simon Peacock, describes his perspective on the lessons learned as Dean helping to lead this effort. The Carl Wieman Science ...
Target Audience: Institution Administration, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development:Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development
Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive through the dangers of change.
× Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive through the dangers of change. This book describes leadership skills needed to thrive in positions that require disrupting the status quo to ...
Target Audience: Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Non-tenure Track Faculty, College/University Staff
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Personnel/Hiring, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration
Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments
× Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments Aimed specifically at change agents operating at the department level, this short article outlines four areas that change agents should focus on -- ...
Target Audience: Post-doctoral Fellows, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Non-tenure Track Faculty, College/University Staff
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning
How Does Your Professional Organization Lead Positive Change?
Pamela Brown, CUNY New York City College of Technology
We are creating resources for the ASCN Working Group 4: Demonstrating Impact and others, interested in higher education systemic change efforts, by soliciting responses to important questions. This month's ...
Target Audience: Non-tenure Track Faculty, College/University Staff, Institution Administration, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change
Strategic Toolkit: Strategies for Effecting Gender Equity and Institutional Change
Strategic Toolkit: Strategies for Effecting Gender Equity and Institutional Change The Toolkit includes 13 Strategic Intervention Briefs that each explain a specific intervention to foster change for greater ...
Target Audience: Post-doctoral Fellows, Graduate Students, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Institutional Systems
Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers
× Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers ( This site may be offline. ) This report, aimed at designers and members of learning networks, explores how networks can foster ...
Target Audience: Institution Administration, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, College/University Staff
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration, Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring
Theory and practice of multicultural organization development
× Theory and practice of multicultural organization development This article presents a framework to identify the level of inclusivity in an organization. Change makers can use the information to create ...
Target Audience: Institution Administration, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, College/University Staff
Resource Type: Book Section
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Evaluating Teaching, Outreach:Policy Change
Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties
× Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties Science faculty with education specialties often have a role in ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Post-doctoral Fellows, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training
Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms
× Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms This paper describes five strategies which STEM faculty can use to build and ...
Target Audience: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Non-tenure Track Faculty, College/University Staff
Resource Type: White Paper, Conference Paper
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning