Black administrators are too rare at the top ranks of higher education. It’s not just a pipeline pro

Robert Kelly had what he calls “one of the experiences that we hope students have when they go to college.” He graduated in 1994 from Loyola University in Maryland -- then called Loyola College -- and soon after earned a master’s degree in education administration from the University of Vermont and later a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His career in higher education administration took him to Seattle University, Loyola University in Chicago and Union College in New York. Today,...