Dr. Kelli Brown, latest of five applicants invited to visit the Georgia Southern University campus as they vie to be the university’s next president, spoke of student debt, but also of sexual assault and a need for faculty diversity, as challenges facing higher education. As provost and vice president for academic affairs at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Brown is that university’s second-ranking administrator. Of the four GSU presidential contenders who have visited so far, she was the first woman and the first employee of a University System of Georgia institution.