Description
The Change Leadership Toolkit for Advancing Systemic Change in Higher Education project aims to develop a set of tools and resources to help campus leaders and teams develop strategies and leadership competencies that contribute to implementing, scaling and sustaining campus systemic change and transformation initiatives.
About
There is an increasing need to build leaders’ capacity to facilitate systemic institutional change and transformation that improves student success as well as other important campus goals. Campus leaders play critical roles in helping facilitate and support the institutionalization of policies, programs and changes to infrastructure, processes and culture that are necessary for institutional transformation efforts. Successful institutional transformation involves multiple levels, from grassroots faculty engagement to presidential vision and support – essentially shared or team leadership across campus.
This project fills a major gap — there are no research-based models of change which are focused on leader roles, moves (or actions), and competencies that are accessible and user-friendly. This project also provides a comprehensive set of tools that details how to lead, not just what to lead, in ways that connect leaders to the entire process of change.
The Change Leadership Toolkit, our Case Studies and online Resource Library will enable change leaders to facilitate more effective institutional change and transformation.
You can also watch the webinar, "Meeting Higher Education's Most Pressing Challenges with the Change Leadership Toolkit' recorded on February 13, 2024.
Project News
“Meeting Higher Education’s Most Pressing Challenges with the Change Leadership Toolkit” Webinar set for Tuesday, February 13
How Leaders Can Implement Systemic Change: the Change Leadership Toolkit
Pullias Expands Change Leadership Toolkit Project with Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) is launching an expansion of the Change Leadership Toolkit, with a $250,000 grant...
Project Team
Adrianna Kezar
Director
Susan Elrod
Chancellor, Indiana University-South Bend
Elizabeth Holcombe
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar
Angel Gonzalez
California State University, Fresno
Publications
Change Leadership Toolkit: A Guide for Advancing Systemic Change in Higher Education
California State University, Monterey Bay Case Study
University of Portland Case Study
San Francisco State University Case Study
University of LaVerne Case Study
CU Boulder Case Study
Dallas College Case Study
Amarillo College Case Study
Change Leadership Toolkit: University of Georgia Case Study
Funders
The ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION is a not-for-profit, mission-driven grantmaking institution dedicated to improving the welfare of all through the advancement of scientific knowledge. Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in four broad areas: direct support of research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics; initiatives to increase the quality and diversity of scientific institutions and the science workforce; projects to develop or leveragetechnology to empower research; and efforts to enhance and deepenpublic engagement with science and scientists.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Mark Suzman, under the direction of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.
National Science Foundation‘s mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country. Grant ##2017799.
