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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Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to systemic institutional change
A resource page for the guide "Increasing Student Success in STEM," detailing systemic institutional change strategies in higher education, including change leadership, project management, and theory-based reform, developed by AAC&U and PKAL for administrators and change agents. 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: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development
Communities of Transformation and their work scaling STEM reform
A resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network presents a white paper on Communities of Transformation—specifically BioQUEST, PKAL, POGIL, and SENCER—detailing their roles in advancing and scaling STEM education reform through sustainability, leadership, and institutional change. 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: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems
Change as a Scholarly Act: Higher Education Research Transfer to Practice
× Change as a Scholarly Act: Higher Education Research Transfer to Practice This article offers a university president's perspective on research pathways higher education researchers ought to pursue to ...
Target Audience: College/University Staff, Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change, Inter-Institutional Collaboration
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
This journal article page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network examines challenges in hiring and integrating science faculty with education specialties, addressing misalignments in roles, expectations, and institutional support within STEM departments. 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: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
SFES: Science Faculty with Education Specialties Research Site.
A resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network that curates publications and research from the Science Faculty with Education Specialties (SFES) team at San Francisco State University, focusing on systemic change in STEM higher education, faculty roles in education specialties, and institutional transformation strategies. 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: Non-tenure Track Faculty, Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration, Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Promotion and Tenure, Evaluating Teaching, 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
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, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Interdepartmental 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
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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:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
Theory and practice of multicultural organization development
This webpage is a scholarly resource page presenting a framework for assessing organizational inclusivity to guide change makers in developing multicultural organizations, featuring a cited book section by Jackson (2006) on multicultural organization development within systemic change in STEM higher 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: Book Section
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
Accelerating change: The power of faculty change agents to promote diversity and inclusive teaching practices
R. Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary; Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College; Eric Baer, Highline College; Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary; Norlene Emerson, University of Wisconsin-Richland; Jan Hodder; University of Oregon; Ellen Iverson, Carleton College; John McDaris, Carleton College; Kristin O'Connell, Carleton College; Carol Ormand, Carleton College
This article about preparing faculty to act as change agents to support diversity and inclusion is applicable to both two-year colleges and a larger audience.
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:Diversity/Inclusion, Institutional Systems:Incentive/Reward Systems, Strategic Planning
Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties
This journal article page examines the role of science faculty with education specialties in driving pedagogical change within academic departments, detailing their strategies, influence mechanisms, and leadership in advancing systemic reform in STEM higher 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, Post-doctoral Fellows
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training