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Welcome to the website of the Delta of Missouri chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.

Truman is the fourth campus in the state to have received a charter, and 30 years had elapsed since a chapter had been granted to a Missouri institution. Truman is only the second public Missouri university so honored and joins Phi Beta Kappa ranks with the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University.

Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest undergraduate academic honor society in the liberal arts and sciences. It was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA and now has a total of 270 chapters.

Here is information about eligibility for membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

Remarks by our Presidents on the value of the liberal arts and sciences are provided at The Value of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Delta Chapter News

Members in Course Election Meeting, Wednesday, March 4, 6:00-7:30 pm, BH 350.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Comes to Truman Campus January 26-27.

   
Truman’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa hosted Visiting Scholar Betty Smocovitis from the University of Florida.  Smocovitis, of both the zoology and history departments at Florida, addressed several Truman classes in biology, anthropology, and the history of science. She also met informally with Truman students. The culmination of her visit was a public lecture, a memorable review of the legacy of Charles Darwin in our times titled “Singing his Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song, and Musical Production.”  More...

National Society News

U.S. Presidents Share a Phi Beta Kappa Connection
On January 7, President George W. Bush, with President-elect Barack Obama, hosted a historic reunion of former U.S. Presidents at the White House, the first of gathering of its kind in more than twenty years. This meeting was an important occasion in the history of the office, as well as a landmark for the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

All of these Presidents — past, present, and future — share a Phi Beta Kappa connection

All three former U.S. Presidents are Phi Beta Kappa members. George H.W. Bush became a member at Yale University in 1948, Bill Clinton at Georgetown University in 1968, and Jimmy Carter became an honorary member at Kansas State University in 1991.  More...

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