Organizational design for change of teacher education institutions should focus on the shaping of political activities through forums, arenas, and courts. Forums provide the medium for expression and competition of alternate ideas in the institution, and arenas are the medium for achieving group objectives through cooperation, contest, or conflict. Courts provide the medium for resolution of issues raised in the forum or arena. Support for this organizational design is based on the relationship of power to social interaction and social structure and on Anthony Gidden's theory of structurization, which provides a way to link interaction directly with structure. A model, designed to help with the administration and resource allocation aspects of Dean's Grant Projects, has six planning phases: (1) initial agreement on the planning mission; (2) needs assessment and problem identification; (3) search for possible solutions; (4) development of a plan for goal achievement; (5) plan review and adoption; and (6) implementation. The model indicates that, in teacher preparation institutions, successful organizational design and change depend on control over the media within which meaning is created, power is exercised, and evaluative judgments are made. (FG)