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!
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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: 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
Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
× Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation In this article Risien provides a framework for examining structures, roles and practices of networks, and particularly of roles ...
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
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department This paper describes the role and potential contributions of science faculty with education specialties within ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
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: 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
Institutional change to strengthen teacher prep
× Institutional change to strengthen teacher prep Final grant report for the APLU Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative, to increase the quantity, diversity and quality of the science and mathematics ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Pedagogical Training, Preparing Future Teachers, Cultural Competency
From Faculty to Change Agent: Lessons Learned in the Development and Implementation of a Change Workshop
From Faculty to Change Agent: Lessons Learned in the Development and Implementation of a Change Workshop Presents successful change strategies through workshop preparation and facilitation, for change agents, that ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Preparing Future Teachers, Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Outreach:Presentations/Talks
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: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development
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 ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Professional Development
The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops
The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops Contains expanded versions of presentations from a conference, describing current scientific society efforts to improve college level STEM faculty ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Outreach:Presentations/Talks