Wellford Wilms Professor Higher Education and Organizational Change 2005C Moore Hall 424-234-1463 wilms@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., Education, UC Berkeley, 1973

Research Interests

Organizational change and the diffusion of ideas from one sector to another. Using action research to foster broad participation within organizations; rebuilding social fabric at the local level to sustain positive changes; using mediation to resolve conflicts.

Recent Publications

Wellford W. Wilms, "Taking Back our Schools - and Fixing Them", View Complete Publication), April 20, 2006

Altering the Structure and Culture of American Schooling,î Phi Delta Kappan, April 2003. (View Complete Publication)

To Protect and to Serve, Wellford W. Wilms, Warren H. Schmidt, and Alex J. Norman, University of California, Los Angeles, November 19, 2002.(View Complete Publication, size: 504KB)

Wellford W. Wilms and Deone M. Zell, Awakening the Academy: A time for new leadership, Anker Publishing Company, Bolton, Massachusetts, 2002.(View Complete Publication)

Wilms,W.W., Teruya, C., and Walpole, M. Fiscal Reform at UCLA: The Clash of Accountability and Academic Freedom, Change, September/October 1997. (View Complete Publication, size: 51 KB)

Restoring Prosperity. Times Books-Random House, 1996. (View Complete Publication, size: 13 KB)

Cultural Transformation at NUMMI,  Sloan Management Review, 36(1), Fall 1994.

Implementing Community Policing in Los Angeles supported by the National Institute of Justice (with Warren A. Schmidt, Profession of Public Administration, University of Southern California).

Links

The Teacher Union Reform Network supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts

The University Transition A Study of UCLA, supported by the A. P. Sloan foundation (with C. Kumar Patel, Vice Chancellor for research, and Uday Karmarkar, Times Mirror Professor of Management).