Inaugural Symposium

Culture, Spiritual Values and the Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Education

Executive Conference Center

February 14, 2008

Participants

Edward J. Blum
Professor of history
San Diego State University

Clayborne Carson
Professor of history and founding director
The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University

Obie Clayton
Pprofessor and chair
Department of Sociology at Morehouse College
Executive director
Morehouse Research Institute and the Chivers-Grant Institute for the Study of Family and Community Issues

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology
Director of the African American Studies Program
Colby College in Waterville, Maine

Martin E. Marty
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
University of Chicago