FOR RELEASE: Oct.30, 2012
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina
Logue, 615-898-5081, gina.logue@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — More
than 60 of MTSU’s top scholars will be honored in Phi Kappa Phi’s fall 2012
initiation ceremony at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Tennessee Room of the
James Union Building.
The students will be initiated into the nation’s oldest and
most selective collegiate honor society, which has chapters on more than 300
campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
To be eligible, juniors must have completed at least 72
credit hours and rank scholastically in the top 7.5 percent of their class.
Seniors and graduate students must rank in the top 10 percent of their class.
Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved
scholarly distinction also may be eligible for membership in the organization.
Its motto is “Philosophia Krateito Photon,” which is “Let the love of learning
rule humanity” in Greek.
According to www.phikappaphi.org, the honor
society was created in 1897 at the University of Maine with a mission “to
recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and
to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
For more information, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office
of News and Media Relations at 615-898-5081 or gina.logue@mtsu.edu.
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