How Colleges 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.