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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. In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Every step of the way, something pushed me to decide to go to college, to become a faculty member. Now we’re trying to measure and understand how our faculty and staff are engaged. I was a faculty member in a graduate program where I had a colleague, Karl Kuhnert , who studied leadership.