Archive for April 13, 2010

The nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society installed its newest chapter Tuesday during Elon University’s Convocation for Honors, where faculty and staff members of Phi Beta Kappa were charged with upholding the society’s values by committing themselves to intellectual freedom, the pursuit of knowledge and the ideal of excellence in scholarship in the liberal arts and sciences.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called on students during a convocation speech Tuesday to find causes they care about and take steps wherever they are to make a difference in the world.

Business ethics speaker David Childers advised Elon students to move beyond a sense of ethics as a set of hard and fast rules and toward a life of integrity governed by a sense of personal accountability. Childers, president and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based EthicsPoint, Inc., spoke on campus March 11 as the 2010 Business Ethics Speaker for the Love School of Business.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will headline a daylong celebration of the liberal arts and sciences on April 13 when Elon University installs its chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society during Convocation for Honors in Alumni Gym.

Every member of the faculty at Elon University School of Law contributed to the Law School Faculty and Staff Campaign this year, and 80 percent of the staff at Elon Law contributed, helping to raise substantial funds for law student scholarships.

Elon marks an important milestone on April 13 during Convocation for Honors when the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honors society, installs a chapter at the university

Preparations are underway for Convocation for Honors, scheduled for April 13. Students taking part in the ceremony are asked to pick up their academic regalia at the Campus Shop inside the Moseley Center before Tuesday afternoon.