After enjoying light refreshments and socializing with old and new members, Drs. Faulkner and Cedel sat down with the membership for an open and optimistic conversation about the challenges and potentials that higher education will face in coming years.  Whether speaking about the financial ingenuity that will be necessary, or about the wisest ways to tap the potential of new technologies in the classroom, both leaders invited the audience to think about the future constructively.

The university experience that these leaders remember could not in some obvious ways be more different from that on which our scholarship recipients and their contemporaries will embark.  At the core however, both long-time members of Phi Beta Kappa and those only now entering college share the same goals of academic excellence combined with the shaping of the best possible citizens and leaders for our world.