{"id":131481,"date":"2026-05-06T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131481"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:56:59","slug":"may-8-come-celebrate-our-phi-beta-kappa-initiates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/may-8-come-celebrate-our-phi-beta-kappa-initiates\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8 &#8211; Come Celebrate our Phi Beta Kappa Initiates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initiation of the Class of 2026 Phi Beta Kappa initiates will take place this Friday, May 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Gray Chapel. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to celebrate this great achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The new inductees join a historic organization that counts 17 U.S. presidents, 42 Supreme Court justices, and more than 140 Nobel laureates among its members.<\/p>\n<p>Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776, and its name originated from the motto \u201cLove of learning is the guide of life.\u201d Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s Eta Chapter was founded in 1907.<\/p>\n<p>The honor society\u2019s mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, recognize academic excellence, and foster freedom of thought and expression.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Phi Beta Kappa<br \/>\nContact: Sarah Brook at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:slbrook@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slbrook@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiation of the Class of 2026 Phi Beta Kappa initiates will take place this Friday, May 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Gray Chapel. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to celebrate this great achievement. The new inductees join a historic organization that counts 17 U.S. presidents, 42 Supreme Court justices, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131482,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131481\/revisions\/131482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}