UConn Phi Beta Kappa

New members who have not picked up their Phi Beta Kappa honor cords may do so between 1:00 and 4:00 PM on Friday, May 5, in Rowe 210. This also includes students who joined in a previous year and need a cord for Commencement this weekend.

Cords ✔️
Certificates ✔️
New member materials ✔️
Selfkey ✔️

Getting ready for initiation this weekend! Will we see you there?

Did you know that Phi Beta Kappa has nearly 50 Alumni Associations so that you can stay involved and make professional and personal connections wherever you go after graduation?

About Associations Graduating from college doesn't mean leaving behind your Phi Beta Kappa connections. The love of learning - and your Phi Beta Kappa membership - lasts a lifetime and so can your involvement with Phi Beta Kappa if you join one of nearly 50 alumni associations. Associations have been a part of the Phi...

The ΦBK Writing Internship Program is an unpaid, no-residential program for juniors and seniors majoring in the liberal arts or sciences. Interns make a five-month commitment to the program and prepare a minimum of six publishable articles (500-700 words each) for The Key Reporter online. You must be recommended by your local chapter.

The Key Reporter - Writing Internships for 2017 Beta Kappa Society is seeking college juniors and seniors majoring in the liberal arts or sciences to serve as writing interns. Students must be able to make a five month commitment to the program and to write a minimum of six short articles about Phi Beta Kappa members or events for

Phi Beta Kappa Society’s national office in Washington, DC is looking for two part-time assistants to work on a variety of projects.
* National Arts and Sciences Initiative Assistant
* Communications Assistant
Apply by April 17.

Summer Opportunities at Phi Beta Kappa's National Office - Idealist We are excited to share this opportunity for summer employment with The Phi Beta Kappa Society’s national office in Washington, DC. We are looking for two part-time assistants to work on a variety of projects. These paid positions are:

To decide the legitimacy of an organization, Fredrick Lawrence, secretary and chief executive officer of Phi Beta Kappa Society, said students should look at a honor society’s lineage. Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776 and has 500,000 members and 286 chapters nationwide. The process to create a university chapter takes at least 3 years of careful planning and consideration.

“Anyone who claims to be a honor society, what you want to know is how deep is their roots and how broad is their reach, and how much do they affect the world,” Lawrence said. “When you walk into an interview and tell someone you’re Phi Beta Kappa, they know what that means. And that’s a real honor society.”

How to tell sketchy honor societies from legitimate ones What to look for when trying to decide whether to join that honor society.

How Humanities Can Help Fix the World Students who can't understand why racism and anti-Semitism are evil don’t need more STEM classes. They need history and sociology.

Not that we need any convincing, but here's some good news for your Monday!

Good News Liberal-Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever Liberal-arts majors often trail their peers in terms of salary early on, but the divide tends to narrow or even disappear as careers progress

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The ΦΒΚ Book Awards Short List 2016 The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the titles of the fifteen books from among those released in 2015 that are on the short lists for the Society’s annual book awards, The Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, and The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Each award carries…