The PanHellenic Council and Interfraternity Council treated professors to breakfast Wednesday.

When the organizers entered the Bridge Lounge in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, there were not many attendees but soon coffee and conversation began to flow.

Kara Shively, a junior communications major, vice president internal of PanHellenic Council, and member of Alpha Gamma Delta, helped to organize the Faculty Appreciation Breakfast on Wednesday morning.

“I was really happy with the turnout because it went much better than last year,” she said.

The breakfast is Greek Life’s way of thanking faculty members for all that they have done for them. The PanHellenic Council and Interfraternity Council try to host a breakfast, luncheon or dinner once a semester to get more interaction between faculty and students. Greek Life shows its appreciation in many different ways than appreciation breakfasts. Each month a Golden Apple Award is given out to the teacher who has the best recommendation.

Shively and Mike Hilty, junior English major and member of Delta Sigma Phi, want faculty to know that they don’t have to be involved in Greek life to attend these types of events. They simply want more of a faculty-student bond.

Shively and Hilty sent out flyers, invitations and put a flyer in the bulletin to get as much attendance as possible.

“Mike and I both had some of our professors come and we talked about the parade, homecoming, and past and future Greek Life,” Shively said.

English professor David Raybin was one faculty member who attended. The breakfast was one of the few Raybin has been able to attend.

“I feel very appreciated,” he said, “I have come one year before but it has been quite awhile and I think it is a nice idea when students invite faculty members to meet.”

Student-faculty interaction has caught on quickly with Greek Life. Shively and Hilty are tossing around ideas of how they can better involve students and faculty. They said ideas such as when a better time of the day or the week is but either way they are very hopeful that this tradition will stay alive throughout their chapters.