Leadership, Women, and Transformational Change: The Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University
By Mary S. Hartman, Director, Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University
If as feminist scholars and educators we have mostly abandoned the knee-jerk reaction against leaders and leadership that marked the early phases of the revived women's movement, we share the disillusionment of the wider culture over a gap between the actual leadership we live with and read about every day and an ideal leadership--sometimes labeled "transformational leadership"--that is endlessly hyped but difficult to find. Yet it is surely a mistake for women, in particular, to imagine that leadership is a notion too elitist, too elusive, or too tainted, to command their attention.

Re-affirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education
By Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Project Director, Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University
The "Re-affirming Action" project raises an important question: if barriers to race and gender equity are embedded in the organizational structures and practices of higher education, what, if anything, are people within these organizations doing to intervene? More specifically, what are faculty leaders doing to change structures and practices that reproduce racial and gender inequality?