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Emory should encourage students to be lifelong learners, especially when it comes to the diverse variety of people they are going to be surrounded with for the remainder of their lives.

Emory’s first chief diversity officer, Carol Henderson, has had full days since touching down in Atlanta for her first days of work heading the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) nearly two years ago. Henderson, who also is vice provost for diversity and inclusion and adviser to the president, recalls getting right down to it. She remembers her first decision: Would she co-sponsor “For Peace I Rise”? It is a musical depicting the bond between C. T. Vivian and his wife, Octav...