How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change
Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar offers new insights for university leaders and change agents.
Available July 31, 2018.
The only constant is change, as Heraclitus famously said. Yet fostering and implementing change remains a major challenge for university leaders. How can we make meaningful changes at an institution of higher education? What theories of change should be considered? And on a more basic level, why change at all?
The new second edition of How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change, available July 31, 2018 from Routledge, answers these and many other questions. Authored by Adrianna Kezar, co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, this book offers practical principles for approaching, understanding, and enacting change based on proven research.
How Colleges Change contains case studies, theoretical perspectives, and teaching questions as well as a toolkit for change — all with a focus on the process of scaling change. The book is thus a compelling read and resource for all stakeholders in higher education, from campus leaders to faculty and staff eager to enact change.