Servant Leaders as Change Agents

Agents of Change: Educating Software Engineering Leaders

I n today's world of rapidly changing software technology, engineers must deal with new methods , tools, platforms, user expectations, and software markets. This changing environment underscores the need for software engineering education that not only teaches current technologies, but also trains engineers to adapt quickly to new technologies and trends, allowing them to anticipate and exploit...

Nurse Leaders as Stewards: The Beginning of Change

In understanding fully persons' moral predicaments, a core component of forming perceptual judgments, nurses may need to shift the epistemology of their practice from instrumental reasoning, or means-ends thinking, integrating a virtue-based practical reasoning. A bearing witness that achieves understanding of clients' moral qualities is attained through the articulation of nurses' self-identit...

Colleagues as Change Agents: How Department Networks and Opinion Leaders Influence Teaching at a Single Research University

Relationships with colleagues have the potential to be a source of support for faculty to make meaningful change in how they teach, but the impact of these relationships is poorly understood. We used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the characteristics of faculty who provide colleagues with teaching resources and facilitate change in teaching, how faculty influence one another. Our explo...

Internal Consultants as Agents of Change

Student publishing: future scholars as change agents

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight undergraduates as an emergent student–scholar author group and to encourage institutions to take a future-oriented view, focusing greater attention to and support of undergraduate’s publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Highlighting benefits derived from undergraduate research (UR) experiences and publishing taken from the literature and e...