Cindy Marshall, UAA's administrative coordinator for the Office of Student Affairs, also attended the event. It was great to have the Northwest Regional representative attend. The University of Alaska Anchorage had become the 253rd college in the United States to start its own chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1990. The University of Alaska Fairbanks started its chapter 14 years earlier. It is an honor society, not an honorary society or fraternity.
Membership is earned, and admission is by invitation only.
The requirements are superior scholarship and good character. Undergraduates at UA must have at least a 3.8 GPA to be considered. Graduate students may be elected, but their number must not exceed 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees during the year. Faculty members and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction may be elected to membership in limited numbers. Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine as an academic honor society for superior students in all fields, Phi Kappa Phi became national in 1900.