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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees. If you’re not ready to disrupt it, you’re not ready to do it.”

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University of Virginia President Emeritus Dr. John T. Casteen III Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During his two decades of leadership, Casteen oversaw significant increases in the enrollment of women, international students, and students from underrepresented minority groups. Casteen's administration grew the university's endowment from $488 million to $5.1

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Moody's Downgrades Higher Education Outlook to Negative as Federal Policy Changes Threaten Sector

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The largest share of ED employees work in the federal student aid office, making any disruption potentially catastrophic for institutions that rely on revenue from student charges provided by federal student loans and Pell Grants.

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The Year Behind and the Year Ahead

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marybeth Gasman Ultimately, geographic location will make the difference in access to and completion of postsecondary education in America, and as the Trump administration moves into the White House, experts predict more chaos, more confusion, and more challenges to higher education.