Phi Beta Kappa Beta of Michigan Chapter Albion College

Activities

        In addition to electing new members twice a year, the chapter has other activities:

• The chapter hosts an initiation ceremony and banquet every year the evening before Honors Convocation.  
   

• Each year the chapter selects the Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Scholar of the Year.   This year's recipients are Frank Machek, Professor of Art Emeritus, and Selva Raj, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. The recipient is recognized at the college Honors Convocation, receives a cash award and is the speaker at the annual initiation banquet. 
   

• The chapter  recognizes the outstanding sophomore(s) and junior(s) at Albion College through scholarship recognition awards.  We invite them to be our guests at our annual initiation banquet and presented them with a book, chosen from a list. 
   

• The chapter honors the top students at the local high school by presenting book awards and certificates to the top seniors, and certificates and college library privileges to the underclassmen.  The top sophomore and juniors at the high school will also receive tickets to the college's lecture-concert series as a result of a gift from an emeritus member of the chapter.
   

• Approximately every other year the chapter brings a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar to campus.  The Scholar gives a public address, a technical seminar and does several class presentations.  During the 2002-03 school year the speaker was Dr. Michael S. Turner, Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.  In addition to appearances in several classes he gave a public address, "....In the Beginning".  In November of 2005, the speaker was Dr. Deborah Stone, the Research Professor of Government and Public Policy at Dartmouth College, who spoke on the topic "The Paradox of Altruism."