News and Views: Phi Beta Kappa and HBCUs; The Least-Favored Universities

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: June 30, 1997 | Copyright information

News and Views: Phi Beta Kappa and HBCUs; The Least-Favored Universities

Black students have been eligible for Phi Beta Kappa Society keys since 1894. But overall membership by African Americans in the honorary society is severely restricted by the fact that Phi Beta Kappa chapters have been established at only 3 of the nation's 100 black colleges and universities. This statistic might be of no racial import except for the fact that a number of white colleges, which one might rank academically below some nonmember historically black colleges, do have Phi Beta Kappa chapters.

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