Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony
Friday, May 9
3:30 pm, Slee Hall
Remember: All undergraduate students, and certain graduate students, must complete and file an Application for Degree Form ("degree card") before February 1, 2008. (Law students do not need to fill out the Graduate School's degree forms. Law students who are graduating with dual degrees (e.g. MBA, MSW) may need to fill out these forms. Check with your other Department or School.) Visit src.buffalo.edu/record/degree.shtml for more information. MD students also do not need to complete the form. Only dual degree MDs (MBA, MPH) may need to fill out these forms. Check with your other department or school. Visit src.buffalo.edu/record/degree.shtml for more information.
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Eligibility
Phi Beta Kappa is a liberal arts honors society that stresses high academic achievement. Chapters are typically permitted to elect no more than 10% of those students receiving the BA or BS degree at their institution in a given year.
Minimal standards for eligibility at UB are as follows:
- An undergraduate liberal arts degree program, defined as a BA or BS degree program in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Biochemistry, or the Department of Communication
- Completion of 100 hours with a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher, or 85 hours with a grade point average of 3.75 or higher at all colleges which the student has attended
- Transfer students must have completed at least 60 credits hours at UB
- Breadth in the liberal arts as shown by the number, variety and quality of courses taken outside of the major, including at least enough to fulfill the University's general education requirements or their equivalent
There is a brief self-nomination form which students may obtain through our Phi Beta Kappa staff assistant, Ms. Patricia Carey (pec@buffalo.edu, 645-3479 in Clemens 708), and students are also occasionally nominated by their advisors or their Departments. We review, and respond to all such self and departmental nominations. However, on this large but electronically-monitored campus the chief way in which we generate files for review is through a computer-generated sweep conducted in January of each year for the September, February and May graduation periods based on the first three of the criteria listed above.
Our Elections Committee, currently composed of Professors Barbara Bono (President, Department of English), Kenneth Takeuchi (Vice-President, Chemistry) and Jeannette Ludwig (Secretary, Romance Languages), then reviews and discusses each application based on the fourth criterion, and makes the election decisions. Students selected are informed in April, decide whether to accept the invitation to join, and are inducted at the annual induction ceremony on the afternoon of the Friday occurring during commencement weekend at the University at Buffalo.
Contact Information
Barbara J. Bono, 645-2575 ext. 1020 bbono@buffalo.edu
Registration
Participation in the induction ceremony is by invitation only.
FAQs
Barbara J. Bono, 645-2575 ext. 1020 bbono@buffalo.edu
