ABSTRACT
This chapter incorporates collected recommendations from the 22 Indigenous leaders who contributed to a better understanding of leadership in higher education from an Indigenous perspective. Six areas of transformation for higher education emerged from the essays including: approaches and philosophies; relational strategies; academics; working with students; personnel, planning, and policy; and structural development. In many ways, higher education reflects these intersections as students diversify and bring their complex lives and cultures into learning; as faculty take on increasingly complex approaches to research, teaching, and service; as funding becomes increasingly challenged, and as public expectations of colleges and universities deepen. To educate across cultures, colleges and universities would benefit from developing new institutional stories that embody many Peoples that celebrate unique opportunity to learn from each other, and to highlight strengths each individual and culture bring to education. Refuge is necessary to any population that is entering or already present in small numbers within an institution.
