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A Phenomenological Theory of Change in U.S. Higher Education: The Case of the Boyer 2030 Commission Report

 

In Short

  • A phenomenologically sensitive approach to leading change attends to how we structure systems of meaning and experience them, which is critical for facilitating coordinated action.

  • Key concepts are multiple realities, motivation, and leverage, modalities of which bear directly on effective theories of, and coordinated actions leading to, institutional and cultural change.

  • The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities’ Boyer 2030 Commission Report is implicitly guided by these considerations, and its Curricular Analytics Project is exemplary of the report’s recommended change strategies.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Harry Dahms, Maude Falcone, Greg Heileman, Michael Toland, Change editor Adrianna Kezar and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on earlier drafts. 

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Steven P. Dandaneau

Steven P. Dandaneau is Executive Director, the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities and Associate Provost, Colorado State University. He previously served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies at Kansas State University; Associate Provost and Director, Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars Programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and as Director of the University Honors and John W. Berry, Sr. Scholars Programs at the University of Dayton.

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