Change Leadership Toolkit: A Guide for Advancing Systemic Change in Higher Education

Several years into a pandemic, a racial reckoning unfolding, enrollments fluctuating, and with strapped finances, leaders are in dire need of a guide that can help support them in leading systemic change. Successful systemic change in higher education involves multiple leaders at various levels across campus employing an array of specific strategies, which we call Change Leader Moves, to create change. It requires an understanding of leadership context and the ways that elements of context can be leveraged to promote change or navigated to overcome barriers to change. However, there are minimal research-based tools for change and no models that connect leaders’ actions with their Leadership Context, and no Resource Library that bridges various individual existing leadership tools. For these reasons, we provide this Change Leadership Toolkit. The Toolkit consists of an array of tools that were developed with higher education leaders in varying roles across numerous institutional types nationwide.

Categories: Leadership, Equity and Leadership