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!
Change Topics (Working Groups)
Target Audience
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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.
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 ...
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
Achieving Systemic Change; a sourcebook for Advancing and Funding STEM Education
Achieving Systemic Change; a sourcebook for Advancing and Funding STEM Education The sourcebook from the AACU 2014 workshop discusses how best to effect systemic change in undergraduate STEM, including the ...
Target Audience: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Institutional Systems
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 ...
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
Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to systemic institutional change
Increasing Student Success in STEM: A Guide to systemic institutional change From AAC&U and PKAL, authored by Elrod and Kezar is aimed at campus leaders and administrators who are leading comprehensive ...
Target Audience: Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty, Institution Administration
Resource Type: Book
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