Taking the Reins - Institutional Transformation in Higher Education

Taking the Reins is based on the ACE Project on Leadership and Institutional Transformation, a five-year effort funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation involving 23 diverse institutions working on transformational change. This book focuses on a sub-set of six institutions that had made the most significant change at the end of five years. The key findings of the study include an identified set of core change strategies, the interrelationship among these strategies, the importance of helping people think differently, and the need for sensitivity to institutional culture. The authors formulate a coherent model, which they call the Mobile Model of Change. The mobile is used as a metaphor for the process of transformational change because it illustrates how the identified change strategies work together.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Context for Transformation Chapter 2: Charting Transformation Chapter 3: Making New Institutional Sense: An Essential Element of Transformation Chapter 4: Five Core Strategies for Transformation Chapter 5: The Multifaceted Process of Transformation: Secondary Strategies, Interconnected Approaches, and Balance Chapter 6: Making Strategies Unique: Institutional Culture Chapter 7: The Mobile Model of Transformation

About the author

By Peter D. Eckel and Adrianna J. Kezar

Product details

• Authors: Peter D Eckel, Peter D. Eckel, Peter D. Kezar Eckel, Peter D./ Kezar Eckel, Eckel Peter D., Adrianna Kezar, Adrianna J Kezar, Adrianna J. Kezar, Kezar Adrianna J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781442215948
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1594-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Education, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Organization & management of education, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational administration & organization, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher