Description
Joining theory and practice, How Colleges Change unmasks problematic assumptions that university leaders and change agents typically possess, and provides research-based principles for approaching change. Featuring case studies, teaching questions, change tools, and a greater focus on scaling change, this monumental new edition offers updated content and fresh insights into understanding, leading, and enacting change. Recognizing that internal and external conditions shape and frame change processes, Kezar presents an overarching practical toolkit—a framework for analyzing change, as well as a set of theoretical perspectives to apply that framework in order to custom-design a change process, no matter the organizational challenge or context. How Colleges Change is a crucial resource for aspiring and practicing campus leaders, higher education practitioners, scholars, faculty, and staff who want to become agents of change in their own institutions.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I : Thinking Differently about Change
Chapter 1: Why Change?
Chapter 2: The Ethics of Change
Chapter 3: Theories of Change
PART II: A Multi-faceted Framework for Understanding Change
Chapter 4: Type of Change
Chapter 5: Creating Deep Change
Chapter 6: Context of Change
Chapter 7: Leadership and Agency of Change
Chapter 8: A Multi-theory Approach to Change
PART III: Challenges for Change Agents in our Time
Chapter 9: Change Implementation
Chapter 10: Scaling Up Changes Beyond the Institutional Level
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
