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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. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it. From there, Williams’s career took off. If you’re not ready to disrupt it, you’re not ready to do it.”

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

She set the tone of her administration with a statewide listening tour to frame her presidential priorities of promoting campus safety, supporting student veterans, and advancing UNM’s mission as an R1 university. Stokes became the 23rd president of The University of New Mexico (UNM) on May 12, 2018, the first woman to hold that office.