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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. We doubled diversity attraction, admittance, retention, and graduation during the time I was there,” he says. “We From there, Williams’s career took off. We did some great work.”

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. percentage point increase in dual credit participation among low-income students from the 2016 senior class to the 2021 senior class.