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Four New Members Elected to ΦBK Nominating Committee
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For Immediate Release
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Oct. 14, 2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the election of four new members to its nominating committee. The decision was made October 3 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Tex. Each new member is to serve a six-year term.
The members of the nominating committee elected in Austin are as follows:
PAULINE YU, President, American Council of Learned Societies and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Columbia University
KAREN O. KUPPERMAN, Silver Professor of History, New York University
MICHAEL F. LUBIN, Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine
NIALL W. SLATER, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek, Emory University and former President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
“The Nominating Committee is in some ways Phi Beta Kappa’s core institution,” said John Churchill, secretary and chief executive officer of the Society.
“This committee selects nominees for the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, and for its elective leadership. Their understanding of the Society’s purposes is critical to Phi Beta Kappa’s continuing to represent the nation’s highest aspirations in the liberal arts and sciences,” Churchill explained.
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.