Robert T. Palmer is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University, USA. His research examines issues of access, equity, retention, persistence, and the college experience of racial and ethnic minorities, particularly within the context of historically black colleges and universities. DeShawn Preston serves as the Research Associate for the United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF)  Institute for Capacity Building. He earned a PhD in Higher Educational Leadership at Clemson University, USA, and his research agenda focuses on African American students in graduate and professional programs.Amanda Assalone is Postdoctoral Research and Policy Analyst at the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), USA. Her research focuses on improving post-secondary access and outreach initiatives for underrepresented students, with a particular interest in advancing research and policy aimedto support Asian American community college students.

• 1. Examining effective practices for Minority Serving Institutions: Beyond a deficit framing of leadership and overview of chapters.- 2. Leading from the center: Indigenous knowledge builds higher education leaders.- 3. Phoenix rising: HBCU leadership during a period of change.- 4. Lessons learned from supporting HBCU leaders in implementing student success practices.- 5. Engagement, innovation, and advocacy: Presidential leadership at historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic serving institutions.- 6. When leadership goes wrong: Implications for effective leadership practices for HBCUs.- 7. Re-imagining HBCU leaders as policy actors.- 8. Effective leadership at a Hispanic-serving university.- 9. This was different, and I wanted to learn: A president's response to a student hunger strike at a Hispanic-serving university.- 10. AANAPISI program directors: Opportunities and challenges.- 11. An effective model of mentorship and capacity building: Lessons learned and lived out at a Midwest AANAPISI.- 12. Thematic trends of effective leadership practices for MSIs through the prism of an anti-deficit perspective.-