PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL EVENT
February 13, 2026
INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
Thematic Focus: “Building Principled Leaders: Steadfast, Honest, and True”
Ray Charles Performing Arts Center
2 P.M. - 4 P.M. WELCOME
The Reverend Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr. Founding Dean, Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, Morehouse College
INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT F. DUBOIS BOWMAN ‘92
Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Joan and Sanford Weill Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The University of Michigan, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Sociology
PANEL DISCUSSION: “BUILDING PRINCIPLED LEADERS: STEADFAST, HONEST, AND TRUE”
Dr. F. DuBois Bowman ‘92, moderator
13th President of Morehouse College
Dr. Michael V. Drake
Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSF, President Emeritus, The University of California
Dr. Jeh Johnson
American Lawyer and former Government Official who served as the 4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Dr. Beverly Daniels Tatum
Scholar, Teacher, Author, Administrator, Race Relations Expert, and 9th President of Spelman College
The Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock ‘91
U.S. Senator from Georgia and Senior Pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
AUDIENCE Q&A
AWARD PRESENTATION | OTIS MOSS JR AND OTIS MOSS III ORATORICAL CONTEST WINNERS:
The Reverend Dr. Otis Moss Jr. ‘56
Chairman Emeritus of the Morehouse College Board of Trustees and Pastor Emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Leah Creque
Otis Moss Jr and Otis Moss III Oratorical Contest and Professor of English, Morehouse College
Dr. Alison Ligon
Otis Moss Jr and Otis Moss III Oratorical Contest Chair and English Department Chair and Professor, Morehouse College
REMARKS – Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr.