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Rachel F. Moran Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Senate
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For Immediate Release
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Oct. 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the election of Rachel F. Moran (right) to its senate. The decision was made October 3 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Tex. Moran will serve a three-year term.
Moran is the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School as well as a founding faculty member at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Earlier this year, Moran became president of the Association of American Law Schools. She has published and lectured extensively on affirmative action, desegregation and bilingual education.
In response to her election, Moran remarked, “It is truly an honor to be elected to the senate of Phi Beta Kappa, which has long represented the pinnacle of academic achievement and continues to nurture a lifelong love of learning.” “I look forward to working to preserve these traditions of excellence for future generations of college and university students,” she added.
“Phi Beta Kappa is very fortunate to have secured the services of Rachel Moran as a senator,” observed John Churchill, secretary and chief executive officer of the Society.
Other senators elected in Austin are as follows: YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZALEZ, University of Arizona; FRED H. CATE, Indiana University; LINDA GREENHOUSE, Yale Law School; GEORGE GREENIA, College of William and Mary; VALERIE HOTCHKISS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; JEAN E. HOWARD, Columbia University; ROBERT C. KOONS, University of Texas at Austin; GILDA L. OCHOA, Pomona College; LYNN PASQUERELLA, University of Hartford; JEFFREY T. SAMMONS, New York University; ANDREW D. MCNITT, Eastern Illinois University; THEOPOLIS FAIR, La Salle University; MICHAEL GAUGER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; KATE LEHMAN, Arizona State University.
“Members of our senate serve as the directors who guide the Society in matters of policy and set the direction for Phi Beta Kappa’s future. This group of senators brings a 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,” Churchill said.
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.