Student evaluations, among many other things, are used to determine issues such as tenure, promotions, and salary increases. What role do they play in grade inflation?
Read about newly elected President Katherine Soule’s vision for the future of Phi Beta Kappa.
The Twin Cities Association, launched in 2008, celebrates its official charter this year.
An active member of Phi Beta Kappa for 79 remarkable years, Newcomer worked to establish the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Texas Christian University in 1971.
Her award-winning biography, Night’s Dancer, is about Janet Collins, the first African-American woman to be hired as a full-time ballet dancer for the Metropolitan Opera.
Languages are tied to the cultures and identities of people, and they hold an abundance of knowledge that we risk losing as languages go extinct.
You may learn 3,000 Chinese characters, but unless you experience the culture in which they are used, can you truly understand?
A team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s (KIT) Institute of Anthropomatics has developed the world’s first computer-based automatic translation service for classroom use.
Much like bellbottoms and legwarmers, languages have gone in and out of style. Take a closer look at the statistics, and the causes, for these evolving trends.
Excitement surrounding MOOCs and the companies providing them, like Coursera, is growing. But how does this form of instruction compare to the traditional classroom?
Phi Beta Kappa member Condoleezza Rice publishes a highly-anticipated memoir of her years serving in the Bush administration.
Theory does not have to engage the reader in a linquistic wrestling match. Maybe it’s the ideas the reader should be thinking about, not the grammar and sentence structure.
