Margaret Curtis, National Science Foundation; Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and Carol Schneider, AAC&U at the 2004 AAC&U Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

In this issue of On Campus With Women, we shift our focus away from Title IX, legislation that altered the landscape of higher education, though we are no less concerned with transformation. In this issue, we turn our attention to how women are transforming both what it means to be a leader in higher education and what women are leading us towards--more inclusive and equitable institutions.

Authors in this issue do not offer counsel on how to fit into existing leadership molds. Rather, they argue that women who aim to transform higher education to the benefit of students, faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as the communities and society our institutions serve, must also transform what it means to be a leader.

The Director's Outlook, by Caryn McTighe Musil, offers a cultural analysis of fashion trends for powerful women, from pinstripes to microminis, and argues that women leaders must go beyond "looking the part." Instead, women must draw on the full strength of their intellectual, cultural, civic, and spiritual power to refashion leadership.

Elsewhere in this issue, we acknowledge that while women have made significant advances in academic leadership, women of color are far from equally represented at the highest levels. Outside the academy, too, women's wages continue to lag behind men's even as they have made headway in the professional ranks.

National Initiative for Women in Higher Education

In her article for the National Initiative column, Laura Rendón underscores the power of culture, urging Latinas to draw on their culture to act as both agents of disruption and agents of community-building. "New Latina intellectual leaders," she writes, "need to develop scholarly approaches that speak from nuestra cultura and our own ways of knowing." Even as Rendón highlights the efforts of pioneering feministas and others to practice an oppositional scholarship, she reminds us all of the importance of rest and renewal in sustaining our transformational work.