ABSTRACT
Building leadership capacity for diversity in higher education is an imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society, communities, and institutions that work. This chapter brings together research from a wide variety of fields to propose a set of clear and realistic practices that locates building the capacity of leadership as a strategic imperative that is inclusive of the varied—and growing—issues apparent on campuses without losing focus on the critical unfinished business of the past and the imperative to educate all leaders from students to Board members about the role of identity and the complexity of identity, not only for individuals but also for institutions and the embedded structural inequities related to identity that continue to impede progress.
