It was amazing, moving, touching.

When I walked onto the campus of Bennett College for Women I felt I was on hallowed ground.

Instead of having a driver with a sign pick me up, the Vice Provost greeted me at the airport. I gave a speech in the morning and a speech in the evening. During the day, the Career Services Center hosted a book signing for My Life in Leadership, aptly set up in their Global Learning Center Auditorium.

First hand, I witnessed faculty and students using history to bring passion to their conversation and to the campus, and their history is remarkable. You can’t fake exuberance.

From their humble classroom beginnings in the basement of a church, a group of emancipated slaves purchased the land for the current campus in North Carolina in 1878. Since Bennett College became a college for women in 1926, more than 5,000 young women have graduated.

If that does not inspire you…

I met with the President, the provost, Bennett College students. Their message was the same: “We know we are very good, but how can we get better?”

So I challenge the staff here at Leader to Leader, and I challenge you to ask: How can we get better?

Warmly yours,

Frances