Excerpt: Brian Williams/Anchor, NBC Nightly News--North Carolina NOW will present an excerpt from Elon University's annual spring Convocation for Honors that was held on April 7, 2011. NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams moderated a panel discussion called "We can be better: Courageous voices confront our greatest challenges." The panelists included David Gergen, Senior Political Analyst for CNN and former presidential advisor; David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office; Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Eboo Patel, author, journalist, member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, and founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core, which promotes religious pluralism and David Levin, co-founder of the "Knowledge is Power Program," a network of high-achieving KIPP charter schools that serves 27,000 mostly low-income minority children in 20 states and Washington, D.C.