A premier university for educating African-American students in the sciences, Xavier is consistently a national leader in placing African American students into medical school and ranks first in awarding African Americans baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences, the biological/life sciences, and physics.

For several years, Ragusa served as the public relations agency of record for Xavier. Ragusa led the campaigns for the University’s carefully choreographed presidential transition, which included the retirement of Dr. Norman C. Francis, the longest serving university president in the United States.