Change Leadership in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Academic Transformation

Change Leadership in Higher Education is a call toaction, urging administrators in higher education to get proactiveabout change. The author applies positive and creative leadershipprinciples to the issue of leading change in higher education, providing a much-needed blueprint for changing the way changehappens, and how the system reacts. Readers will examine fourdifferent models of change and look at change itself through tendifferent analytical lenses to highlight the areas where thecurrent approach could be beneficially altered. The book accountsfor the nuances in higher education culture and environment, andhelps administrators see that change is natural and valuable, andcan be addressed in creative and innovative ways.

The traditional model of education has been disrupted by MOOCs, faculty unions, online instruction, helicopter parents, and muchmore, leaving academic leaders accustomed to managing change.Leading change, however, is unfamiliar territory. This bookis a guide to being proactive about change in a way that ensures ahealthy future for the institution, complete with models and toolsthat help lead the way. Readers will:

• Learn to lead change instead of simply "managing" it
• Examine different models of change, and redefine existingapproaches
• Discover a blueprint for changing the process of change
• Analyze academic change through different lenses to gain awider perspective

Leading change involves some challenges, but this useful guideis a strong conceptual and pragmatic resource for forecasting thosechallenges, and going in prepared. Administrators and faculty nolonger satisfied with the status quo can look to ChangeLeadership in Higher Education for real, actionable guidance ongetting change accomplished.