Just over fifty years ago, the author began his senior year on the bucolic campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. By the time of his graduation in 1969, he had been affiliated with the university for seven years, having studied cello there since the age of fourteen. Yet this familiarity did little to quell the profound alienation that he felt as a first-year student navigating the predominantly white spaces on campus. Miami had about ten thousand students at the time, only eighty of whom were African American, and only two of whom were in his residence hall. For the three years he had journeyed to Oxford by bus every Saturday morning to study cello with a professor, he never considered the demographic composition of the university, so it came as a great surprise to him that he did not feel comfortable in this new setting. Significantly, he never spoke to anyone about the alienation he felt. Recent events in this country and around the world have demonstrated that diversity and globalism are as much of a challenge for the twenty-first century as for the twentieth century. It saddens him that students of color are still dealing with some of the same issues of alienation that he experienced fifty years ago. In this article, the author, the president of the University of Richmond, discusses what colleges and universities could do to promote inclusion and diversity.