University presidents discuss higher education’s evolution

Five presidents from Atlanta area colleges and universities will discuss the evolution of higher education’s role in society during a lecture April 2 at Emory University.

The “Higher Education and the Evolving Social Contract” will feature James Wagner, Emory’s president; Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College; G.P. “Bud” Peterson, president of Georgia Tech; Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University; and John Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College.

The discussion will be moderated by Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, a research fellow for the Emory-Tibet Partnership and religious life scholar at Emory.

The discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. at Emory’s Cannon Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

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