Change Leaders Critical Resources

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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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Leading Change
× Leading Change This book describes the process of leading change in any type of organization. Suggested Citation Kotter, J. P. (2012). Leading change. Harvard business press.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
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.
× 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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
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

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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Assessment
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change

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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development

Competencies for Community College Leaders
× Competencies for Community College Leaders This resource offers information on competencies leadership programs/colleges should consider when designing programs to develop tomorrow's community college ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
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

The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen and Warren Code
× The Science Education Initiative Handbook This book offers advice on implementing a department-level changes to curricula and instructional practices facilitated by Discipline-Based Educational Specialists ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
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

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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training

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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders
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

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 ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
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

Transforming Institutions
Transforming Institutions This book brings together chapters from scholars in the 2011 and 2014 Transforming Institutions conferences. It provides an overview of the context and challenges in STEM higher ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Costs and Benefits
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Professional Development