How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change

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.

• Reframing Academic Leadership
• Organizational Theory in Higher Education (Core Concepts in Higher Education)
• How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership
• The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process
• A History of American Higher Education
• Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students (Higher Education)
• Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
• High-Impact ePortfolio Practice: A Catalyst for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning
• The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era