School and university partnerships are a key strategy for reforming education and increasing college going. Successful programs such as GEAR UP demonstrate the need to expand these relationships. Yet, practitioners find it is difficult to work between these two very different contexts. This paper explores successful practices for navigating…

Illustrates the way case stories can be used as a professional development tool for promoting collaborative leadership and creating pluralistic leaders in higher education--leaders who respond to and embrace the diversity within the community, staff, faculty, and administration. (EV)

Presents two case studies of higher education institutions undergoing change to illustrate how institutional culture affects the change process. Introduces the mobile model of change that guides transformation efforts in urban institutions while remaining sensitive to their institutional context and culture. The framework is based on a five-year…