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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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
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: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
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
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
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
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: White Paper, Conference Paper
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, 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
Achieving Systemic Change; a sourcebook for Advancing and Funding STEM Education
A resource page for the "Achieving Systemic Change" sourcebook that details strategies, funding approaches, and rationale for transforming undergraduate STEM education, including investment areas, policy insights, and key reports from an AAC&U 2014 workshop. 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, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Institutional Systems
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC: A Dean's Perspective
A resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network featuring Dean Simon Peacock's white paper on lessons learned from leading the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC, focusing on systemic STEM education reform, faculty development, and institutional change 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: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation
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
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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: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change
From Faculty to Change Agent: Lessons Learned in the Development and Implementation of a Change Workshop
Journal article detailing effective change strategies and workshop design for STEM faculty transitioning into change leadership roles, emphasizing systemic reform in higher education through practical implementation and facilitation techniques. 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: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Preparing Future Teachers, Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Outreach:Presentations/Talks