At the January 2011 meeting of the Faculty Council, University President James Wag- ner commented on the beginnings of a semester-long conversation taking place among several governance groups around the university on the question, “What makes Emory distinctive?”

“There are times when it’s important for us to stop and see who we are, for the purpose of being able to declare that, to explain who we are, to invest in what we find is good in that,” President Wagner said. He added that these questions had been taken up by the University Senate and the President’s Cabi- net, and they had been discussed at length at a recent Emory College faculty meeting.

Along with President Wagner, the Faculty Council plans to engage with the question of identifying Emory’s distinctiveness at its next meeting, on February 15.