MLL Students Initiated into Phi Sigma Iota

On Friday, April 17, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University held its annual Phi Sigma Iota initiation ceremony. This year, thirteen students were inducted into the Eta Alpha chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, the nation’s oldest foreign language honor society.

Founded in 1922, Phi Sigma Iota represents the highest academic distinction in the field of foreign languages. Dedicated to fostering “a sentiment of amity between cultures with differing languages,” its mission remains especially relevant at a time of rising xenophobia and declining language study in the United States.

The new inductees join a network of approximately 250 chapters across the United States, Mexico, and France.