Over the past twenty years, as the officers of Phi Beta Sigma have come increasingly from the ranks of American corporations, we have seen a steady movement away from the Conclave Model that our Founders gave us to the Corporate President/Board Model that is now clearly in force.
Our Founders recognized that the Conclave Model would place the supreme power in the hands of those (our chapters) who would be governed by the rules, regulations and decisions that they would make for themselves. Now that the President and General Board has substituted our group wisdom and focus for the parochial wisdom that they have limited us to, the collective energy and development of the Fraternity has become weak and relegated Sigma to a position far inferior to all of the other members of the Pan-Hellenic Council.