ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature of new institutional forms and the unique challenges they offer with regard to leadership and governance. New institutional forms are coming to the fore that challenge the fundamental ways in which we conceive of an "institution" and, more particularly, the ways which conceive of leadership and governance in collegiate institutions. The University-College represents an expansion of the community college mandate so that an institution might gain university status. These postsecondary institutions are located primarily in geographically remote locations. The New American College represents a re-visioning of the undergraduate curriculum as a distinctive venture that is dependent on neither the Oxford/Cambridge liberal arts college model nor the German research university model of undergraduate education. The new Inter-Institutional Partnerships represent initiatives that involve collaboration between higher education institutions as well as between higher education institutions and non-degree or certification-granting institutions.
