History of Alpha Chapter of Wyomning
Two hundred fifty years ago, five students at the College of William & Mary founded Phi Beta Kappa as a secret debating society. The Alpha Chapter of Wyoming was established 164 years later. In 2013, Elizabeth Szott researched and wrote a history of our chapter. It was published in 2015 as part of the 75th anniversary celebration. Access the PDF using the link below or click on the center of the black bar to view it as a Flipbook.
Flipbook of the Chapter History
Induction Ceremony Guest addresses
Oliver Walter, Politics and Academia: Not Always a Compatible Alliance, April 29, 2026
Peter Parolin, The Love of Learning and the Call to Responsibility, April 24, 2025
UW President Ed Seidel, Continuing the Relevance of Liberal Arts: Lessons I've Learned, April 29, 2024
Bryan Shader, Thinking and Acting Anew, April 28, 2023
Cedric Reverand, You Have a Liberal Arts Degree: Now What?, April 29, 2022
Governor Mark Gordon, In the Pause I Hear the Call, April 26, 2019
Donal C. Skinner, A Liberal Arts Education: Perspective from an Alien, April 27, 2018
Thomas Buchanan, The Liberal Arts: Now More than Ever, April 28, 2017
David G. Brooks, With a Liberal Education, the World’s a Stage, April 29, 2016
Carol D. Frost, “As Nearly Free as Possible”: Liberated by the Liberal Arts, May 1, 2015
Myron B. Allen, The University's Secret Mission: What leadership really means and why universities are so effective at producing leaders, April 25, 2014
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.