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Phi Beta Kappa Elects Fifteen Senators at 42nd Council
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For Immediate Release
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Oct. 14, 2009
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Phone: (202) 745-3239
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the election of 15 senators. The decision was made October 3 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Tex.
Members of the Phi Beta Kappa senate serve as the directors who guide the organization’s national office on policy matters and set the direction for the Society’s future. Senators will serve either a three-year or a six-year term.
The Phi Beta Kappa senators elected in Austin are as follows:
YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZALEZ, University of Arizona — three-year term
FRED H. CATE, Indiana University — six-year term
LINDA GREENHOUSE, Yale Law School — six-year term
GEORGE GREENIA, College of William and Mary — six-year term
VALERIE HOTCHKISS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — six-year term
JEAN E. HOWARD, Columbia University — six-year term
ROBERT C. KOONS, University of Texas at Austin — six-year term
RACHEL MORAN, Berkeley Law School — three-year term
GILDA L. OCHOA, Pomona College — three-year term
LYNN PASQUERELLA, University of Hartford — six-year term
JEFFREY T. SAMMONS, New York University — six-year term
ANDREW D. MCNITT, Eastern Illinois University — six-year term
THEOPOLIS FAIR, La Salle University — six-year term
MICHAEL GAUGER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — six-year term
KATE LEHMAN, Arizona State University — six-year term
“Phi Beta Kappa is very fortunate to have secured the services of these distinguished people as senators,” said John Churchill, secretary and chief executive officer of the Society.
“This group of senators brings deep understanding of education in the liberal arts and sciences, and a variety of perspectives for assessing the best ways to advance the values of liberal education in American society. I look forward to working with them.”
About the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 280 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression. Among its programs are academic and literary awards, lectureships, a fellowship, a professorship, and publication of The American Scholar, an award-winning quarterly journal.