Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Pi Lambda Theta, Lambda Chapter, records
University of Chicago, Pi Lambda Theta, Lambda Chapter, records
Chicago, University of, Pi Lambda Theta, Lambda Chapter, records
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| Notes: | The collection is open for research.
Pi Lambda Theta is an honor society for educators which was founded in 1910 by the Dean of Education at the University of Missouri, Dr. W.W. Charters. As a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society who admitted only men at the time, Dr. Charters sought to create a similar honor and professional society for women educators. Six other Midwestern institutions had joined the University of Missouri in creating local charters by 1916. In 1917, the society increased its regional scope to a national one, and by the 2000s, it had 63 regional, national, and international charters and 15,000 men and women members. The mission of the Pi Lambda Theta is to honor academic excellence, promote leadership among educators, encourage educational research, and make available to members activities and resources for pursuing these goals. Pi Lambda Theta installed the Lambda Chapter at the University of Chicago in June, 1921. Different members of the education faculty served as faculty advisers to the Chapter. It appears that the Lambda Chapter was dissolved in the mid 1990s when the University of Chicago closed the Department of Education.
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| Summary: | Consists of minutes of the Chapter's first two years of meetings and various procedural guidelines, membership lists, meeting materials, newsletters, fiscal reports, and correspondence from 1987 through 1989.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: University of Chicago. Pi Lambda Theta, Lambda Chapter. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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