Scholarship, or a fidelity to the insights yielded by research and reasoned analysis regarding the best social, political and economic practices that strengthen the fraternity’s bonds of brotherhood and its commitment to building strong communities of support and care, is a type of stewardship for the others. How one thinks about their reality, social or natural worlds, will be informed by their understandings of the nature of the things that occupy it. Whether the occupants are living or inanimate, the involvement of the insights of research will be action-guiding and informative. The results of scholarship should lead to improved action and revised practices. Toward this end, the fraternity is steadfast in its encouragement of its members to pursue high standards of academic success in college as well as attendant graduate and professional studies as means of demonstrating sustained allegiance to our first cardinal principle.

By Illya E. Davis, Ωφεληµα Ψυχι Φιλια