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• Part 1 Changing leadership - tensions within academic and social roles: surviving the middle passage - the absent legacy of African American women education deans?, Beverly Lindsay; the contemporary challenge - family and work issues for women in higher education, Nancy Hensel; recharting the paths of women and minority leaders - a journey of consequence, Jane Stallings; deaning at a historically black institution - challenges, opportunity and promise, Portia H. Shields. Part 2 Changing schools - issues of power, conflict, race and gender: site-based management and teacher empowerment in educational reform - can the power be shifted? Marilyn J. Haring; a profession at risk - changing the image and substance of teacher education, Fannie Wiley Preston; academics and cultural excellence for African American students - imperatives for public education, Hugh J. Scott; developing a multicultural focus in teacher education - one department's story, Barbara J. Shade; restructuring American schools - a perspective on testing and assessment, Trevor E. Sewell.