This book presents real cases where new policies and practices have been implemented, unveiling the mechanisms required to create change, the challenges and opportunities that implementers face, and how effective methodology depends on context.

Adrianna Kezar is Associate Professor for Higher Education at the University of Southern California.

Preface, By Adrianna Kezar

Part I - Setting the Stage: Background and Context

Chapter 1: Needed Policies, Practices, and Values: Creating a Culture to Support and Professionalize Non-Tenure Track Faculty, By Adrianna Kezar

Chapter 2: Strategies for Implementing and Institutionalizing New Policies and Practices: Understanding Change Process, By Adrianna Kezar and Cecile Sam

Part II - Case Studies

Chapter 3: An Instructive Model of How More Equity and Equality is Possible: The Vancouver Community College Model, By Frank Cosco and Jack Longmate

Chapter 4: Taking a Multifaceted Approach to Change: Madison Area Technical College, By Nancy McMahon

Chapter 5: Institutionalization of a Positive Work Environment at a Community College, By Cecile Sam

Chapter 6: Instructor Career Ladder and Addressing the Needs of Research Faculty Evolving Policies at Virginia Tech, By Patricia Hyer

Chapter 7: "Lecturers Anonymous:" Moving Contingent Faculty to Visibility at a Masters Institution, By Päivi Hoikkala

Chapter 8: Lessons from Long-term Activism: The San Francisco State University Experience, By Shawn Whalen

Chapter 9: Creating Changes for Non-tenure Track Faculty within a Decentralized University Environment, By Ginger Clark and Jerry Swerling

Chapter 10: Building a Multi-prong, Context-based Strategy for Change at a Private Catholic College, By Adrianna Kezar

Part III - Synthesis of Lessons Learned

Chapter 11: Taking Heart, Taking Part: New Faculty Majority and the Praxis of Contingent Faculty Activism, By Maria Maisto

Chapter 12: We Know the Changes Needed and the Way To Do It, Now We Need the Motivation and Commitment, By Adrianna Kezar

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

List of Contributors