After reading Chris Lowney's (2003) book, Heroic Leadership, with its concept of "twice born" individuals, the author asked himself what it might mean, as a university administrator, to be "twice born." Yet, he was more curious to consider this concept as a framework for shaping, and perhaps even reshaping, the academy itself. He asks, "Can a university be twice born?" Might it be possible for an established institution to "turn inward to re-emerge with a created rather than an inherited sense of identify?" What calls for a college or university in 21st century America to be re-birthed, twice born? Simply, caste. More fully, the legacy of caste in American society generally and the academy specifically, and the resulting hierarchy of privilege and power embedded within.