Ninety-eight highly accomplished juniors and seniors are invited to join Ohio University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring.
Underscoring the university’s commitment to academic excellence, the President’s Office has offered to pay the initiation fee for those students who accept the invitation.
“Ohio University attracts the best and the brightest students from this state and beyond. They come to study with our renowned faculty and to conduct undergraduate research in our labs, our accelerator, and even nearby Wayne National Forest. Now a new graduating class is getting ready to go out into the world—as innovators, as leaders, as builders of a robust and sustainable society,” said President M. Duane Nellis, who will deliver the keynote talk this year at the induction ceremony on Friday, May 4, at 2:30 p.m. at Glidden Recital Hall.
“President Nellis recognizes the great honor associated with election to Phi Beta Kappa, since he is a proud PBK member himself,” said Dr. Paul Milazzo, Associate Professor of History and President of the Lambda chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at OHIO.
“In past years, the society’s initiation fee discouraged too many qualified students from accepting our invitation. The president’s generous support of our initiates celebrates their achievements and underscores the university’s dedication to academic excellence. I can’t thank him enough for his commitment to the Lambda of Ohio Chapter, which has promoted excellence in the liberal arts and sciences at OHIO since 1929,” Milazzo added.
Seniors invited to join must have a minimum GPA of 3.65, and juniors a minimum GPA of 3.80. In addition, no more than 10 percent of graduating students can be admitted. Seventy-five percent of a students’ coursework must be in the College of Arts & Sciences’ humanities, social science, or natural science areas.
About Phi Beta Kappa: “Phi Beta Kappa is an honor society that recognizes exemplary academic achievement and shows a commitment to the liberal arts and sciences and to freedom of inquiry and expression. Five students at the College of William and Mary founded Phi Beta Kappa in 1776, during the American Revolution. For over two and a quarter centuries, the Society has embraced the principles of freedom of inquiry and expression, disciplinary rigor, breadth of intellectual perspective, the cultivation of skills of deliberation and ethical reflection, the pursuit of wisdom, and the application of the fruits of scholarship and research in practical life. Phi Beta Kappa champions these values in the confidence that a world influenced by them will be a more just and peaceful world. Today there are 280 chapters with over half a million members.”
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