BATON ROUGE, LA — Prof. Jason Harper, of Hays, Kansas, has been elected as an officer for the Fort Hays State University chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Harper, Senior Lecturer and International Coordinator in the Department of English at Fort Hays State University, was elected to serve the university’s chapter as grants and awards officer for the 2018-2019 term.

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The Society inducts 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni annually at more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines.

Membership into Phi Kappa Phi is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. The Society’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”