Chapter History & Resources

Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Wyoming

Phi Beta Kappa has been one of the most respected academic societies in the world for more than 200 years. Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Within a decade chapters arose at Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth. The Wyoming Chapter received its charter in 1940, and today 293 colleges and universities in America meet the strict qualifications for hosting a chapter.  UW faculty and administrators annually elect to membership fewer than one-tenth of the leading scholars of the senior class, candidates for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science.

 

Learn more about the Alpha Chapter of Wyoming history!

chapter in 1940

 

 

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Induction Ceremony Guest addresses

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