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Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society, celebrating and advocating excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. This society exists because those who founded it believed, as we believe still, that there are achievements worthy of celebration: academic work of extraordinary quality, exemplary leadership, and research that advances human knowledge.

ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅ’s chapter, Alpha Delta of New York, was established in 2004. The chapter annually invites for induction the college’s most outstanding liberal arts and sciences students. We also sponsor activities on campus to increase awareness of the importance of the liberal arts and sciences.

About one college senior in 100, nationwide, is invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. Seventeen U.S. Presidents, thirty-eight U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and one hundred and thirty-six Nobel laureates can be counted among the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa members.

The 2024-25 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture was given by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Daniel Hungerman. Professor Hungerman is Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His interests include the long-term effects of the original Earth Day, religion in America, and the determinants of philanthropic activity.

On May 7, 2025 we inducted 62 seniors and 13 juniors as new members of Phi Beta Kappa. Inductees, their guests, and chapter members gathered in Milne Library Multipurpose Rooms A & B or on our video stream for a reception and the induction ceremony. Congratulations!