Education
University presidents discuss higher education’s evolution
By Janel Davis
April 1, 2014Five 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.

