Alumni-Faculty Forums

A Reunions tradition for over forty years, the Alumni-Faculty Forums (AFFs) bring together alumni panelists from the major reunion classes for discussions of broad range of timely or timeless topics. Moderated by members of the faculty or administration, the forums attract over 2,000 alumni and guests each year.

Fourteen Alumni-Faculty Forums took place at Reunions 2009:

• Can the Profit Motive Coexist with the Hippocratic Oath? Commercialization in Medicine 
• Is there a Post-Racial United States? Race in President Obama's America 
• Failed Banks, Rogue States, and Porous Borders: Security in 2009
• Investing Today: Strategies for Uncertain Times
• Change We Can Believe In? An Obama Report Card
• High Culture: Maintaining Relevance in the 21st Century
• Journalism in the Age of New Media
• America and the Global Economy: Who's on Top in the 21st Century? 
• The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education
• Change and a Complex Continent: The Africa Conundrum 
• Wall Street, K Street, and the New Regulatory Era
• Who Owns Your Data? Digital Technology and Public Policy
• Service in the Obama Era: Innovations in Volunteerism
• Should Athletes be Role Models? 

The Reunions 2010 committee will begin meeting in September and the 2010 topics will be posted as soon as they are finalized.