While it may be desirable to quickly leave behind the chilly memories of winter 2014, lessons can be taken from the experience, especially for higher education.
The National Science Foundation discontinues political science grants for its fall cycle in response to the Coburn Amendment.
President Obama, traveling through the Northeast on a two-day bus tour early this fall, laid out his plan to address college affordability.
The Interior and Environment bill for the 2014 fiscal year contains a 49 percent reduction of the NEA and NEH budgets.
Lela Urquhart of Georgia State University is using the $20,000 fellowship stipend to complete her book, “Colonization, Religion and State Formation in the Archaic West Mediterranean.”
Bill Clinton (ΦBK, Georgetown University, 1968) to be recognized for his work to improve and promote global health, economy, and the environment.
Junot Díaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012).
Janet L. Yellen (ΦBK, Brown University, 1966) is the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve.
On December 4, the Phi Beta Kappa Society launched its National Arts and Sciences Initiative at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C.
On December 4, ΦBK recognized Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey for their outstanding contributions to education and higher learning.
Meredith Lukens Wheeler (ΦBK, Stanford University, 2013) of Fort Collins, Colorado, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship for her exemplary work involving the Middle East.
ΦBK member Julie Freyermuth’s new children’s book, Norbert: What Can Little Me Do?, tells the lovable story of a tiny dog in search of his special gift, serving as a therapy dog.
