Recently added articles from Phi Kappa Phi Forum:
President's page.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... H. Ellsworth Steele, president of the Auburn University Phi Kappa Phi chapter in the late 1970s, inspired numerous members to serve the Society in leadership roles. I fondly recall what the then-associate dean of Auburn's School of Business (now called the College of Business, at which ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... A colleague suggested devoting the fall magazine to higher education. Good idea. The academic year traditionally begins in autumn. Plus, the ivory tower is certainly being shaken in the recession. And though most of the 100,000-plus active Society members are no longer on campus, the ...
Society Information.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009 ... On July 28, Phi Kappa Phi went live with its revamped Web site after updating the design, reorganizing the content, streamlining the navigation and enhancing the functionality. Visit the new www.PhiKappaPhi.org and let us know what you think! THE HONOR SOCIETY OF PHI ...
The climate outside the classroom earns a failing grade: standards suffer because of conflicting expectations.(Survey)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Back in 2006, when The Chronicle of Higher Education surveyed high school and college teachers on student abilities, a distressing gap opened up between each pedagogical group's judgment about pupils' basic skills and college readiness. For instance, when asked to rate student ...
Engagement in civic education remains weak: opportunities and challenges exist on many fronts on campus.
Sep 22, 2009; ... In our 2008 book, Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities (Brookings Institution Press), we asserted with our George Mason University colleague and fellow political scientist Jeremy D. Mayer that the nation's colleges and universities are failing to teach what used to ...