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.

Adrianna Kezar is Co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern California, USA.

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