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The Phi Beta Kappa Society publishes The Key Reporter, [22] a newsletter distributed quarterly to all contributing members and biannually to all other members, and The American Scholar, a quarterly subscription-based journal that accepts essays on literature, history, science, public affairs, and culture.
The Phi Beta Kappa society had a rudimentary initiation and maintained an uncertain level of secrecy. Those secrets were exposed in the mid-1830s by students at Harvard University acting under the patronage of John Quincy Adams. Since the 1840s, Phi Beta Kappa has operated openly as an academic honor society.
Phi Beta Kappa: ΦΒΚ: Liberal Arts December 5, 1776: December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) December 15, 1937 Resigned [9] Phi Kappa Phi: ΦΚΦ: All Fields March 15, 1897: December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) 2006 – 2007: Sigma Xi: ΣΞ: Scientific Research November 1886 [10] December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) 1933
KA; Kappa Alpha Phi Delta Theta: ΦΔΘ California Pi Spring 1989 Phi Delt Phi Kappa Psi: ΦΚΨ California Lambda February 17, 1996 Phi Psi Phi Kappa Tau: ΦΚΤ Beta Nu January 7, 1950* Phi Tau Sigma Alpha Epsilon: ΣΑΕ California Theta October 8, 1949* SAE Sigma Chi: ΣΧ Delta Xi January 8, 1949* Sig Chi Sigma Nu: ΣΝ Eta Kappa February ...
Other honor societies were established a century later, including Tau Beta Pi for engineering (1885), Sigma Xi for scientific research (1886), and Phi Kappa Phi for all disciplines (1897). Mortar Board was established in 1918 and was the first national honor society for women who were college seniors.
Four members of San Diego State University's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity are facing felony charges after a skit performed at a party last year led to a pledge being set on fire.. The member set on ...
Number [a] Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference 1: Alpha of Virginia: December 5, 1776 –1780, 1851–1860, 1893: College of William & Mary ...
Alpha Gamma Sigma (ΑΓΣ; AGS) is the honor society of the California Community Colleges system, founded in 1926 by William T. Boyce at Fullerton College. [1] It was conceived as "an intellectual stimulus, comparable to that of Phi Beta Kappa in the higher colleges" [2] for what were then called junior colleges in California.