Don Hackmann is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary research agenda focuses on educational leadership preparation programming, including program quality, characteristics of tenure-line and clinical educational leadership faculty, and faculty/student mentoring. An additional research interest addresses the principalship, focusing on effective leadership behaviors and strategies at the middle and high school levels that facilitate equity and access, including effective supervisory approaches, school improvement, and school leaders' practices in promoting college and career readiness.