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Phi Beta Kappa
boosts its profile
■The liberal arts honor
society tries draw in more
members with a new Web
site and financial support
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Each year, only about half of all
the University students invited to
join a nationwide academic hon
orary society accept. The low
turnout has prompted University
society members to make several
changes in hopes of obtaining
higher membership this year.
The Alpha of Oregon Chapter of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society honors
top students who fulfill the objec
tives of a liberal arts education. But
only about 60 to 70 percent of stu
dents invited to join the chapter
actually accept. This number is
significantly lower than at other
schools.
But executive committee mem
bers hope a new Web site, added
financial support from the Univer
sity administration and changes in
how the committee selects stu
dents will increase membership
acceptance.
Nan Coppock-Bland, secretary
treasurer of the Alpha of Oregon
Chapter’s executive committee,
said the recent creation of the
chapter’s new Web site is just one
way the group hopes to raise its
profile.
“Students just don’t recognize
what this is,” she said. “So we’re
really trying to make an effort to
make ourselves more visible.”
In addition to the Web site, Cop
pock-Bland said the committee has
also extended the cutoff time it
normally takes to evaluate poten
tial candidates for membership.
She said in past years, potential
members had to reach the society’s
requirements once winter term
grades were finalized, which often
made students ineligible if they
were lacking certain requirements
that would likely be fulfilled by
spring term. She said this year the
committee included last spring
term in its selection process in
hopes of increasing the number of
eligible students.“In the past we
didn’t even consider works in
progress,” she said.Coppock-Bland
said one major reason why stu
dents may choose not to join Phi
Beta Kappa is because of a lack of
financial support. She said other
schools pay for their students’ ini
tiation fees, which may be one rea
son why the University has lower
membership acceptances than oth
ers.
She said although the Universi
ty cannot pay for everyone’s fees,
the University Office of the Presi
dent plans to pay for the initiation
of students from the Phi Beta Kap
pa Oregon Six, who are six mem
bers-elect who have particularly
excelled in the liberal arts while
maintaining high grade point aver
ages.
“It isn’t a huge thing, but it’s
something,” she said. “We hope it
will make students feel a little
more special.”
Marie Vitulli, a math professor
and president of the Alpha of Ore
gon Chapter’s executive commit
tee, said many students may not
know about the honor society be
cause so many societies exist.
“There’s so many honor soci
eties out there that students just
don’t know which is which,” she
said.
But Vitulli said the University’s
chapter usually invites a higher
number of students to join than
other schools, which she said
shows the high quality of Univer
sity students.
“Although the acceptance rate is
not as high as it could be, we have
a lot of outstanding students who
are eligible,” she said.
Jack Bennett, a counselor with
the University’s Office of Acade
mic Advising and member of the
Alpha of Oregon Chapter’s execu
tive committee, said students
should consider joining Phi Beta
Kappa because it may help them
get into graduate school or land
jobs later in life.
“It’s the oldest and most presti
gious liberal arts society in the
country,” he said. “Phi Beta Kappa
is understood as a top honor in lib
eral arts education.”
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