Composer Stephen Sondheim (ΦBK, Williams College, 1949) and his legendary work on Broadway are a defining part of the American soundscape.
Katie Heaney (ΦBK, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2009) is one of twenty-four writers out of 16,000 applicants chosen as an Amtrak Writer-in-Residence.
ΦBK member Sama Imran Ilyas talks about interdisciplinary courses showcasing liberal arts education that paved the path for her eclectic college career.
The Xi of New York Chapter brought Schieffelin to campus for a Visiting Scholar Lecture entitled “Language and Intentionality: Whose Mind Are You Speaking?”
Baylor University hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson as part of the ΦBK-Roy B. Albaugh Lecture Series.
Just as the record or floppy disk industries are now virtually obsolete, could the print industry also have a grim future?
Katy Simpson Smith, novelist and historian, speaks at the induction ceremony for new members of the Gamma of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Washington and Lee University.
Their numbers have plummeted by 97%, and many experts fear we are at risk of entirely losing the monarch butterfly.
Why can’t Johnny write? Freshman composition courses alone are not enough to teach the advanced writing skills needed to enter graduate school or the workforce.
A recent study reveals that students completing a degree in the liberal arts have a higher chance of getting a job after college.
How President Obama’s free community college plan could help expand study in the liberal arts at four-year colleges.
Watch ΦBK member and author Scott Samuelson’s lecture at Rhodes College, “The Deep Value of the Liberal Arts,” sponsored, in part, by the Teagle Foundation.
