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

"Leavened with uncommon wisdom, this authoritative volume draws on theory, empirical research, and examples from the field to distill lessons for navigating and purposefully responding to the challenging circumstances affecting virtually every aspect of contemporary college and university life." —George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Indiana University, USA"Adrianna Kezar has captured the reality of what it means for higher education to adapt to the needs of a world in which even the nature of change itself is changing. How Colleges Change guides us gracefully through the uncertain landscape that we face as we set out to help our campuses respond to the needs and interests of our students and our society today." —Judith Ramaley, President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service, Portland State University, and President Emerita of Winona State University, USA

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I : Thinking Differently about ChangeChapter 1: Why Change? Chapter 2: The Ethics of ChangeChapter 3: Theories of Change PART II: A Multi-faceted Framework for Understanding Change Chapter 4: Type of ChangeChapter 5: Creating Deep ChangeChapter 6: Context of ChangeChapter 7: Leadership and Agency of ChangeChapter 8: A Multi-theory Approach to ChangePART III: Challenges for Change Agents in our TimeChapter 9: Change ImplementationChapter 10: Scaling Up Changes Beyond the Institutional LevelConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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

"Leavened with uncommon wisdom, this authoritative volume draws on theory, empirical research, and examples from the field to distill lessons for navigating and purposefully responding to the challenging circumstances affecting virtually every aspect of contemporary college and university life." —George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Indiana University, USA"Adrianna Kezar has captured the reality of what it means for higher education to adapt to the needs of a world in which even the nature of change itself is changing. How Colleges Change guides us gracefully through the uncertain landscape that we face as we set out to help our campuses respond to the needs and interests of our students and our society today." —Judith Ramaley, President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service, Portland State University, and President Emerita of Winona State University, USA

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I : Thinking Differently about ChangeChapter 1: Why Change? Chapter 2: The Ethics of ChangeChapter 3: Theories of Change PART II: A Multi-faceted Framework for Understanding Change Chapter 4: Type of ChangeChapter 5: Creating Deep ChangeChapter 6: Context of ChangeChapter 7: Leadership and Agency of ChangeChapter 8: A Multi-theory Approach to ChangePART III: Challenges for Change Agents in our TimeChapter 9: Change ImplementationChapter 10: Scaling Up Changes Beyond the Institutional LevelConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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

"Leavened with uncommon wisdom, this authoritative volume draws on theory, empirical research, and examples from the field to distill lessons for navigating and purposefully responding to the challenging circumstances affecting virtually every aspect of contemporary college and university life." —George D. Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Indiana University, USA"Adrianna Kezar has captured the reality of what it means for higher education to adapt to the needs of a world in which even the nature of change itself is changing. How Colleges Change guides us gracefully through the uncertain landscape that we face as we set out to help our campuses respond to the needs and interests of our students and our society today." —Judith Ramaley, President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service, Portland State University, and President Emerita of Winona State University, USA

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I : Thinking Differently about ChangeChapter 1: Why Change? Chapter 2: The Ethics of ChangeChapter 3: Theories of Change PART II: A Multi-faceted Framework for Understanding Change Chapter 4: Type of ChangeChapter 5: Creating Deep ChangeChapter 6: Context of ChangeChapter 7: Leadership and Agency of ChangeChapter 8: A Multi-theory Approach to ChangePART III: Challenges for Change Agents in our TimeChapter 9: Change ImplementationChapter 10: Scaling Up Changes Beyond the Institutional LevelConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex