Two faculty from the College of Human Development and Education have been elected to positions for NDSU’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Virginia Clark Johnson was elected faculty vice president. Anita Welch, assistant professor in the School of Education, was voted president-elect.
Clark Johnson will carry out duties assigned by the president and serve as a voting member of the chapter's executive committee. Welch’s responsibilities include presiding at meetings in the president’s absence and succeeding the presidency in the event of death, incapacity or resignation of the president.
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi annually inducts approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. Once inducted, Phi Kappa Phi members gain a lifelong passport to a global network of academic and professional opportunities. Since its founding in 1897, the society has initiated more than one million members, including former President Jimmy Carter, writer John Grisham, NASA astronaut Wendy Lawrence and Netscape founder James Barksdale.
Phi Kappa Phi has chapters on nearly 300 select college and university campuses in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.
The society's mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”