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 SocietiesRecognize science education scholarship at professional meetings and in discipline based journals- Incorporate V&C principles in program certification (ACS, ASBMB)

• Funding AgenciesRecognize education research needs (released time, funding emphases etc.) in funded initiatives.

INCENTIVIZING CHANGE

Key Findings

Leading Change: Incentivizing change in institutions.

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.

ROADMAP1. 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.

ROADMAP1. Identify programmatic aspirations and needs.2. Develop shared vision and identify champions on campus.3. Communicate goals clearly.4. Incentivize pilots/experiments. 5. Be intentional and creative about developing and deploying

resources such as time, money, expertise and facilities.

ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES

Access & Retention

Leading Change: Alternative practices for access and retention

• 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

KEY FINDINGS

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 LeadersKey Findings

1. Identify2. Develop and3. EmpowerFaculty 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 LeadersKey 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 TrainingHiring Decisions “Stepping up” on

committeesAnnual EvaluationPeer Identification

…in collaboration with the NSF, AAAS and the HHMI

Develop:Raise awareness

Formalize leadershipProfessional Society

leadership development Articulate the Expectations

Empower:Explicit “Succession Plan”

Faculty Fellow = Explore the Practice

Change the language No “Dark Side”

Reward leadership