PDK International

PDK International (also known as PDK or Phi Delta Kappa International) is an international professional organization for educators. Its main office is in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded on January 24, 1906, at Indiana University.

Membership
Currently, membership consists of educators and others interested in education. Members are affiliated through one of several hundred chapters or directly to the international organization.

Governance
PDK is governed by an International Board, who are elected by professional PDK members. The association abides by the Constitution and Bylaws of PDK International.

The chief executive of PDK International is Dr. James F. Lane.

History
Phi Delta Kappa began at Indiana University on January 24, 1906, in the formal creation of a chapter under the name Pi Kappa Mu. By 1910, the organization had a total of three chapters. On March 1, 1910, Pi Kappa Mu, Phi Delta Kappa (which had been organized at Columbia University on March 13, 1908) and Nu Rho Beta (which had been organized at University of Missouri on February 23, 1909) amalgamated under the name Phi Delta Kappa. Before amalgamation, Phi Delta Kappa had also branched out to two other chapters.

Phi Delta Kappa was limited to white males at the August 1915 convention. In 1940, Sigma chapter at Ohio State University initiated two non-white members (one Chinese, one Black), and was suspended at the December 1941 convention with charter revocation to occur in May 1942 if the chapter did not remove membership for the two non-whites. A demand for a popular vote of the entire membership led to a membership poll being sent to all members and eventually the deletion of the "white clause" by the membership. On June 2, 1942, an announcement was made to all of the chapters of the removal of the race restriction.

Phi Delta Kappa joined the Professional Interfraternity Conference in 1928.

Publications
Phi Delta Kappan is a professional journal for education, published by Phi Delta Kappa International, starting in 1915.

Activities
Programs administered by the fraternity include the honor society Pi Lambda Theta and the career and technical student organization Educators Rising.

Phi Delta Kappa International
As of January 2024, Phi Delta Kappa International has 124 chapters. Following is a list of Phi Delta Kappa International chapters. Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters are in italics.

Notable members

 * Edna P. Amidon, chief of the Home Economics Education Service of the United States Office of Education
 * Hattie Bessent, psychiatric nurse, professor at Florida University, and graduate dean at Vanderbilt University
 * Esther Buckley, member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
 * John Napier Burnett (Epsilon Delta), pioneer of education in British Columbia
 * William C. Chasey, founder and president of the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (FCSR) in Warsaw, Poland
 * Kenneth Creasy, Ohio House of Representatives
 * Kay Cornelius, novelist
 * Barbara Curbow, professor and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland
 * Pearlie Craft Dove, college professor
 * Fenwick W. English, chair of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Sidney Clarence Garrison, second president of Peabody College
 * Victor Gaston, Alabama House of Representatives
 * Gene V. Glass, statistician and researcher working in educational psychology and the social sciences
 * Frank Pierrepoint Graves, 3rd Commissioner of Education of the State of New York
 * Syed Hassan, educationist, humanist, and the founder of INSAN School
 * Edd Houck,Virginia Senate
 * James Hampton Kirkland, second chancellor of Vanderbilt University
 * H. S. S. Lawrence, Indian educationalist
 * Cloyd H. Marvin, president of the George Washington University
 * Neil C. Macdonald, North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction
 * William E. McVey, U.S. House of Representatives and professor of education at De Paul University
 * Pornchai Mongkhonvanit (Thailand), president of Siam University and the International Association of University Presidents
 * Alfred C. Nelson, academic who taught at the University of Denver and also served as its interim chancellor
 * Blake T. Newton, Virginia Senate
 * Robert Morris Ogden, dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
 * Archie Palmer, 8th president of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
 * James Melvin Rhodes (1950), educational scientist and assistant professor of education
 * Edward Rogalski, educational scientist, assistant professor of education
 * Jack McBride Ryder (Michigan State) second president of Saginaw Valley State College
 * W. Otto Miessner, educational scientist, assistant professor of education
 * Barefoot Sanders, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas


 * Marvin Scott, college professor and politician
 * Bo Shepard, head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team from 1931 to 1935
 * E. Mark Stern, humanistic/existential psychologist
 * Brice Taylor (University of Southern California) college football coach
 * Oscar Tingelstad (University of Chicago), president of Pacific Lutheran University
 * Pete Turnham, Alabama House of Representatives
 * Robert G. Voight, professor at Oral Roberts University
 * Lawrence Walkup, professor at Oral Roberts University
 * William Arthur Ward, writer and college professor
 * Walter Washington, college professor and first African-American to receive a doctorate in Mississippi.
 * Wilfred D. Webb, Michigan House of Representatives
 * Albert Pau Weiss, behavioral psychologist, theorist, scientist, and experimentalist