MURFREESBORO — MTSU
University Honors College Associate Dean Philip Phillips has been named to the
board of one of the country’s most prestigious honor societies.
Philips, past president of MTSU’s chapter of The Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi, will serve a two-year term on the national board
during the 2018-2020 biennium. He was elected to the position Aug. 4 during the
organization’s biennial convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In addition to his service as secretary and later president
of the campus chapter, Phillips served on the credentials committee for the
2016 National Biennial Convention and on the national Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Committee for the 2016-2018 biennium.
A member of the MTSU faculty since 1999, Phillips received
MTSU Foundation Distinguished Research Awards for the 2007-08 and 2014-15
academic years. He also is the founder and former director of the Great Books
in Middle Tennessee Prisons Program.
Phillips earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Belmont
University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Vanderbilt
University.
Phi Kappa Phi is the country’s oldest and most selective
collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Founded in 1897, some of
its notable members include novelist John Grisham, YouTube co-founder Chad
Hurley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of
seniors and graduate students and the top 7.5 percent of juniors, as well as
faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
For more information, go to www.phikappaphi.org or the MTSU chapter’s
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pkpmtsu/.
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