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Eligibility Requirements Renew Your Membership Benefits and Resources Engagement Opportunities Frequently Asked Questions About Phi Kappa Phi Mission and History Leadership News Social Media Giving Opportunities Giving Tuesday Contact Society Documents Awards Undergraduate Students Fellowship Literacy Study Abroad Graduate Students Dissertation Fellowship Graduate Research Fellowship Literacy Love of Learning Professionals Distinguished Service Literacy Love of Learning Scholar and Artist Institutions Excellence in Innovation Chapters Find a Chapter Get Involved With Your Chapter Fall Service Project 2020 Biennial Convention Chapter Officer Resources Chapter Dashboard Chapter Toolkit Starting a Chapter Publications Annual Report Focus Newsletter Phi Kappa Phi Forum Forum Archive Forum Contributors Online Extras Fall 2016 Learn More And Join Renew Your Membership Manage Your Chapter Since its founding, Phi Kappa Phi has initiated more than 1.5 million members into its ranks; all of these members have received emblems and certificates of membership. However, Phi Kappa Phi is much more than an emblem and a line on résumé. It is a global network composed of the best and brightest from all academic disciplines - a community of scholars and professionals building an enduring legacy for future generations. PHI KAPPA PHI NEWS POSTED Nov 19 Announcing Our Costume Contest Winner Throughout October, we challenged Society members to share their Halloween creativity by posting costumed pictures in our Link community. Now it's time for the treats! Check out our winner. Full story POSTED Nov 17 Giving Tuesday: Why I Give All gifts, no matter the size, will open doors of opportunity to members both near and far. Why give? Read more as members share their personal stories. Full story POSTED Nov 16 Member Benefit: FREE Résumé Evaluation Need help writing a great résumé? Our Career Center’s free résumé critique service puts your résumé in front of professional writers. Within days of submitting your résumé, you'll receive an evaluation listing your strengths, weaknesses, and suggestions to give you the best chance of landing an interview. Full story Read All News Member Spotlight A native of Glenelg, Maryland, Daine Van De Wall grew up near the United States Naval Academy and was drawn to the midshipmen uniform throughout his childhood. After learning about ROTC opportunities from a neighbor, Daine enrolled in the University of Florida in 2015 and began his ROTC experience. “I thrived in an environment with like-minded individuals who pushed themselves to get better every single day,” he said. Get to know Daine and find out how to nominate someone for a future Member Spotlight today! Read More Highlight Your Membership When it’s time to apply for a job, scholarship or graduate program, be sure to highlight your membership in the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi provides members with Society logo graphics, membership verification letters, personalized press releases and much more. Click here to highlight your membership. Executive Director’s Blog Oct 06, 2020 Still Learning There are some advantages to a long commute. While traveling from my home in the Chicago suburbs to the downtown campus where I was working on my doctorate, I listened often to NPR, and one day in 1992 heard Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interview Derrick Bell about his book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. Using allegories to illustrate his point, Bell shared his story, “The Space Traders.” Keep Reading Previous Posts Jun 15, 2020 Letter from Home As I write, it is late March, and we are in the early weeks of a new normal — learning to live a safe distance from one another in response to the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. I only hope, as you read this, that citizens’ collective observance of the guidelines on social distancing has helped contain the deadly potential of the virus. (?) Full story Jun 03, 2020 More to Learn Since its founding in 1897, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has been a community of scholars committed to inclusivity and diversity, principles we believe are fundamental to democracy. And yet we recognize that those principles are sadly not universally embraced by all our fellow citizens. (?) Full story Mar 17, 2020 Life Comes at You Fast A current advertising campaign uses the words “Life comes at you fast” as a caution or warning to be prepared. “Don’t blink” offers a similar admonition to pay attention lest you miss something. Both phrases presume an awareness of who and where we are as well as of who and where we were. (?) Full story Dec 10, 2019 Belonging “Welcome home” is the ubiquitous greeting alumni hear when returning to campus for homecoming reunions. I’ll admit it felt odd to hear that when I returned to my undergraduate campus recently. It didn’t feel like home when I was a student — perhaps at best a home away from home? — and it certainly didn’t feel like home so many years later. And yet I have roots in that place, strongly influenced by the ethos of the university as epitomized in the honor code we wrote out and signed on every paper, quiz, and exam. (?) Full story Dec 03, 2019 Abundant Gratitude on #GivingTuesday One of the words I’ve seen often lately is the word gratitude. In addition to blogs and books on the subject are regular reminders that it’s good for us to stop and remember those people and things for which we are grateful. On this #GivingTuesday, let me start by saying how grateful I am for you, our members. One of the benefits of my position is meeting Phi Kappa Phi members, whether in person or through correspondence or calls. Our membership is multidisciplinary, multigenerational, and multitalented, spread across the United States and beyond, yet what we hold in common is a commitment to the love of learning. We are proud that you are part of this community of scholars. (?) Full story Oct 08, 2019 Less is More I didn’t grow up in a home with a lot of rules. Our house was a parsonage, situated next door to the church my father served as pastor. Embedded in the family culture was the religious tradition we practiced, but with less emphasis on rule-following than on what our tradition considered the ultimate commandments: love of God and love of neighbor. Honesty was central to what was expected of us — oh, and recognition that any misbehavior by the preacher’s kids would reflect poorly on the preacher himself. (?) Full story Jun 04, 2019 Give Peace a Chance When she was twelve, I took my oldest granddaughter to Washington, D.C., to see the Fourth of July fireworks. The next day, we were sitting on a bench in Arlington National Cemetery looking out over acres of white crosses that marked ...