The focus of this study is how educational leadership can respond to the emerging spiritual culture amongst college students in the United States as documented by the recent study published by the University of California--Los Angeles (UCLA) Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). The suggestion in this work is that the evolving notion of spiritual intelligence (SQ) is one way to meet this leadership challenge. Within this framework, SQ is critically analyzed, and a prescriptive model for leadership in institutions of higher education is presented as a means to conceptualize nurturing college students' spirituality within the academy. (Contains 1 diagram.)