[ncsiacfan]

It opens doors in both academia, industry and business. As one poster has mentioned, there is no Phi Beta Kappa who will not let you know it on his or her resume. It begins with graduation. Not all high honors graduates are Phi Beta Kappa. At Morehouse if you are, when they call your name, they say High Honors - Phi Beta Kappa.

[cee dog]

It opens doors in both academia, industry and business. As one poster has mentioned, there is no Phi Beta Kappa who will not let you know it on his or her resume. It begins with graduation. Not all high honors graduates are Phi Beta Kappa. At Morehouse if you are, when they call your name, they say High Honors - Phi Beta Kappa.

Having a real degree will get you a higher salary then Phi Beta Kappa will anyday. That's why I majored in Engineering.

[ncsiacfan]

Engineering is a great degree, but that is something that we don't know. It is like being a 'Skull and Bones' from Yale. When junior decided that he was not going to join, papa Bush  showed up and said "I know that you will do the right thing". We always know what happened. What we don't is what might have happened. I suppose that you can ask the same questions of the masons, elks, Shriners and other fraternal orders.

[cee dog]

Engineering is a great degree, but that is something that we don't know. It is like being a 'Skull and Bones' from Yale. When junior decided that he was not going to join, papa Bush  showed up and said "I know that you will do the right thing". We always know what happened. What we don't is what might have happened. I suppose that you can ask the same questions of the masons, elks, Shriners and other fraternal orders.

So in other words white is right and the whites only club mean you're successful? Dude please. This is America. Keep thinking a white boy honor society will open the door for you.

[ncsiacfan]

I don't know where you got that idea. The question was why don't more HBCUs have Phi Beta Kappa Chapters. As far as I know, it is the number one scholarly society in the world. Getting a Phi Beta Kappa chapter is far more difficult than passing the required accreditation. It is also a great honor for the students selected. Just being A straight A book worm will not get you in. Obtaining a Phi Beta Chapter is a challenge. I would be very proud of any HBCU that did so.

[cee dog]

I don't know where you got that idea. The question was why don't more HBCUs have Phi Beta Kappa Chapters. As far as I know, it is the number one scholarly society in the world. Getting a Phi Beta Kappa chapter is far more difficult than passing the required accreditation. It is also a great honor for the students selected. Just being A straight A book worm will not get you in. Obtaining a Phi Beta Chapter is a challenge. I would be very proud of any HBCU that did so.

I could careless if I see it on a resume. Doesn't impress me as a hiring manager.

[Ken]

It does count with major corporations.  Plus they have local phi beta kappa alumni for networking  they meet monthly  I now have my own medical consultant group. It seems with these large white corporations blacks are placed in jobs like human resources community outreach and diversity 
Seems like there are very few  blacks that deal with true authority- like profit and loss of the  company

[Ken]

Also I was never smart enough to be phi beta kappa but for people of any race it is a great honor  we got to get away from  calling success as "acting white" when a black child achieve a
academic success in a household sometimes we are silent- but when that same child's sibling return from prison we give them a party

[Ken]

If you are Phi beta kappa they have "Key Connections " which will network for its members and alumni for jobs in industry

[Ken]

Like all organizations it's good for networking and is a great honor  but it won't put you ahead of similar applicants for employment

[cee dog]

I'm willing to bet a wager that 99% of all black millionaires in America have no association with Phi Beta Kappa. In fact I'll go as far as 99.5%. One thing I love about the millennials and generation Z is that they aren't chasing false dreams. 

[Ken]

Majority of black millionaire are athletes. Most black owned businesses are sole proprietary with one employee and make 54,000 per year

[Ken]

We have 1.5 million black millionaires.  30 percent make 75000 a year and 20% make over 100,000. The majority of black millionaires live in South Africa

[cee dog]

We have 1.5 million black millionaires.  30 percent make 75000 a year and 20% make over 100,000. The majority of black millionaires live in South Africa

bruh no disrespect, but you aren't telling me anything I don't know. I've been around millionaires illegal and legal since I was 14 years old. I was driving a Rolls-Royce around North Side Dr at 15. Like I said 99.5% of all millionaires have no affiliation with Phi Beta Kappa. True millionaires are self-made whether legal or illegal. In fact most millionaires make their money dealing with nothing that relates to their college degree. You don't get rich punching a clock 9 to 5. 

[ncsiacfan]

Ninety nine percent of millionaires of any race are not Phi Beta Kappas. But Ken is correct. We should not give our brothers and sisters who try to achieve academically a hard time. I once had a black female staffer who would say or do something smart when I asked her to do something. She would take out her position description and look at it for a few minutes and then say, "ok I will do it." I finally told her to stop it. I told her that I had created the job, I had written the position description and I would change it if I wanted to".  One of my friends was in a middle management training program at Ford Motor Company and by chance worked with her husband. He said that he always had something smart to say but he was a good worker. As long as he did his job, they would leave him right where he was. He would never advance and not know why. Then I remembered that his wife was aways saying something negative about the plant manager. I have forgotten his name. He was a black who had been a classmate of Henry Ford II at Yale.

You tube recently had a segment on black billionaires in the US. I am glad that number one was a stock broker and not a athlete.