Critical Resources - Change Leaders
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!
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How Does Your Professional Organization Lead Positive Change?
Pamela Brown, CUNY New York City College of Technology
This blog post page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) explores how STEM professional organizations drive systemic change in higher education, featuring expert insights on initiatives like faculty development workshops, curriculum reform, and cross-society collaboration, with contributions from leaders in mathematics and physics education. auto-generated
The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change
Competencies for Community College Leaders
A resource page detailing leadership competencies for community college administrators, developed by the American Association of Community Colleges, offering guidance for leadership development programs within higher education institutions. auto-generated
The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development, Supporting Students:Professional Preparation, Outreach:Policy Change
Leading Change
A resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network presents John Kotter’s book *Leading Change*, detailing strategies for organizational transformation in STEM higher education, including citation, summary, and public domain image reuse permissions. auto-generated
The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change
Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive through the dangers of change.
Book resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network covers leadership strategies for managing organizational change, based on Heifetz and Linsky’s "Leadership on the Line," emphasizing skills to disrupt the status quo while maintaining personal and institutional resilience. auto-generated
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Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration
Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
Scholarly article page analyzing network roles in systemic STEM education reform, introducing the conceptual framework of "curators" and "sojourners" to describe strategic actors who build network alignment and bridge institutional change, respectively, within learning networks. auto-generated
The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen and Warren Code
A resource page for *The Science Education Initiative Handbook*, a guide for implementing department-level STEM education reforms through Discipline-Based Educational Specialists, featuring implementation strategies, a webinar, and citation details. auto-generated
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Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Interdepartmental Collaboration
Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments
This resource page presents a scholarly article outlining four strategic frames—structures, symbols, power relationships, and people—for driving systemic, culture-level change in STEM higher education departments, targeting change agents with practical implementation insights. auto-generated
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Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change
Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers
This resource page presents a report on transformative learning networks, offering guidelines and insights for "netweavers"—individuals who build and sustain networks that foster collaborative practice, shared learning, and systemic change in STEM higher education, with a focus on capacity-building and relationship cultivation across institutions. auto-generated
The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change, Inter-Institutional Collaboration
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: Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Institutional Systems
Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms
A resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network presents a white paper detailing five strategies for fostering collaboration between STEM and education faculty to integrate education research into postsecondary STEM teaching practices, emphasizing interdisciplinary brokering and systemic reform. auto-generated
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Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: White Paper, Conference Paper
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change