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Kieran Conway
  • Dance, Africana and Diaspora Studies
  • Cincinnati, OH

Kieran Conway Recognized at Wittenberg's 2015 Honors Convocation

2015 Apr 16

Concluding a day-long Celebration of the Liberal Arts at Wittenberg University, the campus community celebrated the achievements of students and faculty members at the annual Honors Convocation, Friday, April 10, in Weaver Chapel. The faculty commemorated the occasion in full academic regalia as the university recognized high achievement of students and faculty members in academic and co-curricular activities.

Kieran Conway of Cincinnati, OH, was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta. Phi Alpha Theta is the national history society for historians, and Wittenberg’s chapter is among the oldest honor societies on campus. Students are inducted each year based on a superb academic record in at least 12 semester hours of history courses. Conway also was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious of the national honor societies. Wittenberg’s chapter, Omicron of Ohio, was established in 1992. Phi Beta Kappa exists to give recognition to students who have achieved high academic distinction at Wittenberg. Phi Beta Kappa stresses the importance of the liberal arts and sciences, and elects to membership only those students who have demonstrated their awareness of the liberal arts tradition by building programs broad in scope yet sufficiently concentrated to ensure comprehensive knowledge in one or more disciplines. Students are normally elected as seniors or, in special cases, as juniors. They must be majoring in one of the liberal arts or sciences, have a high grade point average, have taken a variety of courses across the liberal arts spectrum, and have demonstrated a knowledge of mathematics and a foreign language appropriate to a liberal arts education.