PHI KAPPA PHI NEWS

POSTED Nov 15

Apply for a Phi Kappa Phi Dissertation Fellowship by November 30

Phi Kappa Phi is currently accepting applications for its Dissertation Fellowship Program until Friday, November 30. Ten fellowships of $10,000 each will be awarded.

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POSTED Nov 14

Save on Your Holiday Travel

Will you and your family be traveling this holiday season? If so, book through these Phi Kappa Phi travel partners and save up to 50% on hotels, 35% on car rentals and 15% on airport parking.

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POSTED Nov 13

A Reason ‘Tue’ Give

Giving Tuesday is a few weeks away! On November 27, Phi Kappa Phi will join communities, charities, businesses and individuals across the globe to celebrate a global day of philanthropy dedicated to giving back.

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Don't Miss Your Chance!

Phi Kappa Phi is assessing the need to provide funding to members for graduate research travel. As part of this assessment, the Society is offering graduate research grants of up to $1,500 to eligible members who are enrolled in a graduate program. These grants provide funding for travel in support of career development opportunities, such as conducting or presenting research.

To learn more about the Graduate Research Grant or to apply by the November 30 deadline, click here.

Make an Impact on Giving Tuesday

Join Phi Kappa Phi on November 27 for Giving Tuesday—a global day of philanthropy dedicated to giving back through the support of nonprofit organizations. With your help on this special day, the Society can continue to open doors of opportunity to deserving members both near and far.

Learn how you can get involved.

Executive Director’s Blog

Oct 11, 2018

What Is Phi Kappa Phi to You?

Identity is one of those terms often taken for granted. Some say, “I know who I am, so I don’t have to dwell on it.” But let’s do dwell on for a bit. Identity is something we each have individually, but it’s also something organizations have. Identities change; history makes that clear.

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Jun 05, 2018

Power: n., energy, force or momentum

Were you perhaps the slightest bit uneasy to see the word power on the front cover of this issue of the Forum? Did you perhaps pause before opening the pages to imagine how multiple meanings of that single word might be employed by the writers and columnists?

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Mar 20, 2018

Women Hold up Half the Sky

Some years ago, while teaching a women’s studies class, I noticed several male students looking through the window of the classroom door. They later said they were curious about what went on in women’s studies, since the enrollment was overwhelmingly female.

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Nov 30, 2017

Happy Days ... Not So Much

The late comedian Dick Gregory is noted for saying, “One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.” Gregory admits to being a lifelong learner, a habit many Phi Kappa Phi members share.

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Nov 21, 2017

Pay it Forward on #GivingTuesday

A friend once told me of her participation in a silent auction in which she bid on a Pay It Forward basket full of small amount gift cards. The only stipulation was that the winner distribute all the gift cards rather than keeping any for herself.

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Sep 27, 2017

Feeding a New Network

Celebrations and food just go together. What Phi Kappa Phi chapter marks initiation without at least some finger food, cookies, or cake, if not a dinner or banquet?

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May 18, 2017

Taking It to the Streets

We met in the basement of our organizer’s parents’ home to plan our protests. I’m not sure what we were thinking, as his father was a member of the faculty at the university where we were students, but we were young and it was 1968 and that’s what students did: protest.

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Mar 15, 2017

Digging in the Dirt

I have a friend who is an inveterate gardener. It’s no surprise she grew up on a farm. She has a large garden on her property and tends it with care year round, and her household enjoys her garden’s harvest of fresh vegetables year round as well.

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Nov 21, 2016

On the Move

A friend once teased, in reference to my career path in higher ed administration, that I was collecting houses along the way. He wasn’t wrong — at one point, thanks to the burst housing bubble, I owned two townhomes and was renting a third. Ouch.

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Sep 27, 2016

Too Much Information?

You’ve probably seen, or said in exasperation, the expression TMI. Too much information! That’s an understandable response in these days of 24/7 cable news and incessant email and text alerts.

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May 20, 2016

Going for Gold

Each year I am invited by a few chapters to speak at their initiation ceremonies. I always learn something on these campus visits — the diversity of higher education institutions assures great variety in the events.

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Jun 19, 2015

Learning to Think

The daily newsfeed Inside Higher Ed reported recently that, while two-thirds of students considered themselves adequately prepared to enter college, only 20% felt the same about entering the workforce upon graduation. The data, from McGraw-Hill’s 2015 workforce readiness survey, reveal a striking disconnect between students’ expectations and their experience.

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Aug 26, 2014

Convention Reflections

Honor. Excellence. Impact. These three words served as the theme of the 43rd convention of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi this past August. But these words were not only prominently displayed on materials banners and material, they were embedded in all aspects of the convention program.

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Jan 01, 2014

Amen to That

I have been known to refer to myself as a church brat. I grew up in a parsonage in the near west suburbs of Chicago, and, as a late child whose teenage siblings soon left home, the church next door felt to me like an annex to our house.

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Nov 20, 2013

A Reason to Smile

One place you don’t hear a lot of laughter these days is in airports. Between the necessary expectation of no joking in security lines to the increasing number of announcements regarding flight delays and/or cancellations, there’s not much joy in flying anymore.

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Nov 20, 2013

On the Horizon of Change

In one of my favorite books, Their Eyes Were Watching God, author Zora Neale Hurston uses the metaphor of the horizon in introducing her readers to her story and her storyteller, Janie, whose life was a quest to go to the horizon and back.

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PHI KAPPA PHI NEWS

Apply for a Phi Kappa Phi Dissertation Fellowship by November 30

Save on Your Holiday Travel

A Reason ‘Tue’ Give

Don't Miss Your Chance!

Make an Impact on Giving Tuesday

Executive Director’s Blog

What Is Phi Kappa Phi to You?

Previous Posts

Power: n., energy, force or momentum

Women Hold up Half the Sky

Happy Days ... Not So Much

Pay it Forward on #GivingTuesday

Feeding a New Network

Taking It to the Streets

Digging in the Dirt

On the Move

Too Much Information?

Going for Gold

Learning to Think

Convention Reflections

Amen to That

A Reason to Smile

On the Horizon of Change

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