This double issue of On Campus With Women marks the last installment in our yearlong celebration, analysis, and defense of Title IX.

Last fall's OCWW offered an historic analysis of the pre and post-Title IX worlds, and the political organizing needed to enact and then make effective use of the new legislation. By winter we turned our attention to athletics because, in a surprise move, Secretary of Education Rod Paige called for a review of Title IX's athletic policies, even as celebrations of its 30th anniversary were unfolding. His actions threatened to undo the dazzling increase in women's participation in sports: more than a 400 percent increase at the college level and more than 800 percent at the high school level, according to the National Women's Law Center in Washington.

By the summer, a groundswell of support for Title IX from across the country and within the halls of Congress had grown so powerful that the Department of Education backed away from altering current policies that have proven so effective in remedying the stark inequalities of 1972. The Department's decision came within weeks of the Supreme Court's ruling confirming, by one single vote, the educational benefits of diversity as a legitimate rationale for affirmative action.

With Title IX's current regulations reaffirmed, for now at least, we have devoted our Spring/Summer double issue to celebration and vigilance. Throughout the issue, we celebrate the achievements of and for women in education in our profiles of successful practices and programs. At the same time, we remain vigilant with regard to future challenges. As Caryn McTighe Musil reminds us in the Director's Outlook, we must guard our victories and seek always to press forward, resisting the earlier norms of 1972 that, three decades later, still exert a gravitational pull on campuses.

National Initiative for Women in Higher Education

On campus after campus, data from climate studies show that women of color have not yet established a presence in high-level leadership positions. These same data indicate that the lack of women of color in leadership positions is only partly a pipeline problem. It is also, as Rusty Barcelo and Patricia Lowrie contend, the result of "institutionally driven misalignments" between cultural identities and institutional traditions. They argue that the National Initiative for Women in Higher Education must lead the way in redefining leadership so it draws on, rather than ignores, cultural assets. These new models of leadership will enable women of color to bring their whole selves to their work.