ABSTRACT
The voices and models of directors and leaders in the field as well as numerous practical recommendations provide enough understanding for systematically integrating this role into “faculty development.” Higher education may not change quickly, nevertheless, it is changing and people are not in Kansas anymore. The scope of institutional changes needed and underway are complex and are both broad and deep, many of which result in institutional initiatives that are now bringing new people to the table. The directors all demonstrated a proactive approach to creating and managing conditions that would enable their organizational role to emerge and be sustained. This constant vigilance toward managing the complexity of a multilevel role was central to successfully leaving the fringes of university, moving to the center, and staying there. Several theoretical frameworks draw attention specifically to the process of change, known as processual change, and the dynamic nature of interaction between an environment, the individual, and the actions taken to evoke change.
