2nd Edition
How Colleges Change Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change
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
Biography
Adrianna Kezar is Co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern California, USA.
"Leavened with uncommon wisdom, this authoritative volume draws on theory, empirical research, and examples from the field to distill lessons for navigating and purposefully responding to the challenging circumstances affecting virtually every aspect of contemporary college and university life."
—George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Indiana University, USA"Adrianna Kezar has captured the reality of what it means for higher education to adapt to the needs of a world in which even the nature of change itself is changing. How Colleges Change guides us gracefully through the uncertain landscape that we face as we set out to help our campuses respond to the needs and interests of our students and our society today."
—Judith Ramaley, President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service, Portland State University, and President Emerita of Winona State University, USA
