Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, has developed an extensive physical education program to meet the demands of students and residents, offering a wide range of activities and sports from archery to zumba. The newest additions to the offerings, ice skating and ice hockey, are made available through a partnership with the municipal ice rink.

How do you lead people who are highly talented, energetically creative, exceptionally trained, mistrusting of organizational hierarchy, unreceptive to anyone who would try to manage them, opposed to the notion that they could possibly be led, antithetical to much of what you may think is right and true about leadership, and quite likely the most valuable and productive employees in the organization?

When studies conducted by the English Department at CCBC showed that only 27 percent of students enrolled in the higher-level developmental writing sequence passed English 101, the department decided to pilot an enhanced version of mainstreaming. Results have been spectacular.