This video footage shows the Elon faculty and staff discussing the transition from Elon College to Elon University in the year of 2000 in McKinnon Hall within Moseley Center. The forum discussion included what this transition would mean to alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and prospective students. Some of the topics brought up in the question and answer session included: alumni not being included in the Elon University community, donors observing that their financial contributions will not be needed since the University can receive tax funding, Elon choosing to retain a college within the university by establishing a College of Arts and Sciences for Elon’s undergraduate students. Elon discusses its decision to shape a national conversation of a new American institution without losing touch with Elon’s values and reshaping the landscape of American Higher Education. Students discuss having mixed feelings of changing from a college to a university because the students do not want to lose the community or family atmosphere. The faculty state hearing the word “university” brings two thoughts into peoples’ minds: class size increases and faculty research increases. Some faculty expressed that the Elon College of Arts and Sciences may become the stepchild of the university because this is not just a name change but a philosophy change to the institution. Faculty discussed that sabbaticals needed more resources because becoming a university may increase the institution’s ability to gain more grants. A faculty member voiced a concern that a prospective student/family looking at the term “university” might have a pre-notion in their minds of large classes taught by graduate students. In addition, the term “university” may be a place where you may not have a niche for developing leadership skills because the student may be lost in the crowd. The President voiced that this is a model at many campuses: Harvard University, Emory University, Rutgers University, and many others. A trustee stated that Elon will be communicating with alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and prospective students about the traditions and history of Elon College to Elon University. Some notable names: Mary Ruth, Janie Brown, Susan Klopman, Ronald (Ron) A. Klepcyk, Stephen Bailey, Jeffrey C. Pugh, Jo Watts Williams, Gerald (Gerry) Francis, Leo M. Lambert, J. Earl Danieley, Ed Wilson, James (Jim) Barbour, George Troxler, Nan Perkins, Daniel (Dan) Anderson, and Richard McBride.