UMaine Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony April 15
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Alan Charles Kors of the University of Pennsylvania history faculty, who teaches European intellectual history and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment,” will be the guest speaker at the 2004 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa initiation. The event is scheduled for Thursday, April 15. at 3:15 p.m. in the Buchanan Alumni House.
The title of Kors’ talk will be “The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses.”
Kors was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton and earned his doctorate from Harvard University. He has been at Penn since 1968. A member of the Council of the National Endowment of the Humanities from 1992-1998, Kors has received awards for distinguished teaching and for the defense of academic freedom.
UMaine is home to one of only four Phi Beta Kappa chapters in Maine. The others are at Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and best known academic honor society in the country.
Kors’ talk is free and is open to the public.