Phi Beta Kappa records

Identity elements

Name and location of repository

University of Miami University Archives

Level of description

Collection

Title

Phi Beta Kappa records

Date(s)

1951-2010 (Creation)

Extent

6 Boxes

Name of creator

Phi Beta Kappa

Administrative history

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely known academic honor society in the United States. The University of Miami chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was installed in 1983, The society celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities. The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies — the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences — in higher education and in society at large.

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Scope and content

This collection includes administrative documents, news clippings, tapes (betacam and VHS), correspondence, photo albums, programs, ephemera, certificates of membership, meeting minutes, bulletins, scrapbooks, and other archival material prepared by the University of Miami chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society.

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Conditions governing access

This collection is open for research.

Physical access

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

Technical access

Conditions governing reproduction

Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.

Languages of the material

English

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Finding aids

Generated finding aid

asu0613.pdf

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Archivist's note

This collection was processed by Marcia Heath, Archives Technician, 04-24-23; finding aid updated by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 04-25-23.