Faculty change agents for systemic transformation: Leaders for Inclusive Learning

Leaders for Inclusive Learning (LIL) is a theoretically grounded initiative focused on faculty and designed to increase inclusive teaching and decrease academic success equity gaps across 15 departments responsible for a largest proportion of general education courses. Designed as a combination of the Change, the Adopters, the Change Agents, and the Organization (CACAO) change model and the Progress towards Inclusive Excellence through Reflection (PIER) critical reflection process, the LIL program created a faculty cohort of inclusive teaching experts to lead significant equity-focused change in the culture of teaching and learning within their respective departments and, therefore, across the college. This innovative leadership program has already begun to garner impressive results within departments and across the college. Authors provide a list of recommendations for implementation to advance second- and third-order institutional change.