Leading
Change
THE ROLE OF POLICY IN CHANGE
Leading Change – The Role of Policy
Drift to Quantitative Compliance- Behavior will
focus on whatever is measured in the most
precise manner as evaluations not only reflect
but influence practice.
Incorporate Vision and Change Principles into
Outcomes Assessment activities
Leading Change – The Role of Policy
Administrative support and a reward system are
key to implementing practices that promote
change.
Align personnel and professional evaluation policies
(i.e. hiring,tenure,promotion,compensation,
teaching load) for faculty and other instructional
staff to enhance the student learning experience.
Leading Change – The Role of Policy
• Professional Societies
Recognize science education scholarship at
professional meetings and in discipline based
journals- Incorporate V&C principles in program
certification (ACS, ASBMB)
• Funding Agencies
Recognize education research needs (released
time, funding emphases etc.) in funded
initiatives.
INCENTIVIZING CHANGE
Leading Change: Incentivizing change in
institutions.
Key Findings
1. Innovation in undergraduate education must
be recognized, valued and rewarded at all
levels of evaluation and advancement.
2. Innovation requires a clear vision supported
by appropriate resources.
Key Finding 1: Recognition and reward for
evaluation and advancement.
RECOMMENDATION
Institutions should review and modify their evaluation criteria to
reward innovative and transformational teaching practices.
ROADMAP
1. Figure out, on a national scale, what it will take to get institutions
to take up this issue.
2. Identify at what level and by whom policies are made at one’s
institutions regarding evaluation and advancement.
3. Develop new evaluation criteria, reflecting both one's own
institutional setting and national trends, that incorporate
rewards for innovative and transformational, evidence-based
teaching practices.
Key Finding 2: A clear vision supported by
appropriate resources.
RECOMMENDATION:
Institutions and funding agencies should develop programs and
policies to provide resources such as expertise, money, time, facilities
that support innovative and transformational teaching.
ROADMAP
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Identify programmatic aspirations and needs.
Develop shared vision and identify champions on campus.
Communicate goals clearly.
Incentivize pilots/experiments.
Be intentional and creative about developing and deploying
resources such as time, money, expertise and facilities.
ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES
Leading Change: Alternative practices for access
and retention
KEY FINDINGS
• Good advising is critical for access and
retention of all students
• Peer interactions promote community that
fosters retention
• Interdisciplinary education is critical for
student success and core to our liberal
education mission
Recommendations and Roadmap
• Advising should be a far more important part of the
student experience
– Implement and assess advising systems that use best
practices
– Leadership must value advising by provide incentives,
rewards, resources, and supporting data collection on
effectiveness
• Provide multiple opportunities for peer interactions to
foster community (bridge programs/boot camps,
learning communities, peer mentors, etc.)
– Leadership must commit to institutionalize programs
– Use desire for better student outcomes to motivate
resource allocation
Recommendations and Roadmap
• Explore, study and implement mechanisms
that engage students in interdisciplinary
thinking
– Leadership must overcome barriers to cooperation
among departments
CREATING
MOVEMENTS FOR
CHANGE
What success looks like.
We need everyone with a hand on
the elephant to be at the table.
Vision & Change Conferences to
Promote Student Success
• Competitive selection
• Institutional team:
depth & breadth
• Focus on contextual
problem
• Facilitated
– Regional: make plan
– National: celebrate start
CULTIVATING
LEADERSHIP
Leading Change: Cultivating Leaders
Key Findings
1. Identify
2. Develop and
3. Empower
Faculty Talent, Potential, and Experience
Importance of identifying potential leaders
who are enthusiastic for V&C, showing
ability to communicate with broad range
of colleagues
Leading Change: Cultivating Leaders
Key Recommendations
1. Leadership is an expectation embedded
in the culture of the Academy
2. Identification, Development, and
Empowerment of leaders is a
collaborative responsibility.
Cultivating Leaders:
Roadmap
Identify:
Graduate Training
Hiring Decisions
“Stepping up” on committees
Develop:
Raise awareness
Formalize leadership
Annual Evaluation
Professional Society
leadership development
Peer Identification
Articulate the Expectations
…in collaboration with the
NSF, AAAS and the HHMI
Empower:
Explicit “Succession Plan”
Faculty Fellow = Explore the
Practice
Change the language No
“Dark Side”
Reward leadership