Honors Organizations

Last Updated: March 06, 2024

Chi Sigma Iota

President: Darrius Simon ([email protected])

Advisor: Michael Leeman ([email protected])

Requirements for Membership: Students must have completed at least one semester of full-time graduate coursework
in a counselor education degree program, have earned a grade point average of 3.5
or better on a 4.0 system, and be recommended for membership by the chapter, including
promise for a capacity to represent the best about professional counseling through
appropriate professional behavior, ethical judgment, emotional maturity, and attitudes
conducive to working to advocate for wellness and human dignity for all. 

Amount of Dues: $30 or $15 per semester

Description of Organization: CSI is an international honor society that values academic and professional excellence
in counseling. We promote a strong professional identity through members (professional
counselors, counselor educators, and students) who contribute to the realization of
a healthy society by fostering wellness and human dignity.

Website: Chi Sigma Iota

Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society

President: Kory Gennaro-Gerbitz ([email protected])

Advisor: Antoinette Alack ([email protected])

Requirements for Membership: Must have a Cum. 3.2 GPA and maintain a 3.0 semester GPA.

Amount of Dues: $15 per semester

Description of Organization: Gamma Beta Phi is a scholastic, honor, educational-service organization, for certain
students, faculty and staff at accredited colleges and universities that recognizes
and encourages excellence in education, promotes the development of leadership ability
and character in the members thereof and fosters, disseminates, and improves education
by appropriate service projects, through membership and engagement at Southeastern.
 

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Honors Student Association

President: Victoria Debarbieris ([email protected])

Advisor: Amber Narro ([email protected])

Requirements for Membership:

  • Attend a minimum of 4 out of 7 meetings

  • Be an Honors Student

  • Pay the $10 semester fee

Amount of Dues:$10/semester

Description of Organization: The Honors Student Association is an organization focused on giving honors students
valuable experiences through social events (such as parties), service opportunities
(such as making cards for nursing homes), and in academic aspects (such as providing
information needed to graduate with an Honors diploma).

Website: Honors Student Association

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Kappa Delta Pi: Zeta Kappa Chapter

President: Abigail Martin ([email protected]

Advisor: Michele Mayberry ([email protected]

Requirements for Membership: In order to remain an active member of the organization, these are the minimum requirements. 

Meetings: Members need to be present for at least 2 meetings. At least 1 meeting you attend
this semester must be considered primary where we will vote and ask that all members
be present for this to occur. If you miss a secondary meeting, you must reply to two
meeting agendas per one missed meeting.

Academics: All members must maintain a 3.0 collegiate GPA.  

Recruiting or Service: All members must participate in at least one recruiting or service effort.

Recruiting is key for KDP to maintain its presence on campus.  We have members graduating
each semester and we want to keep enrollment up in order to stay active.  Recruiting
efforts include talking to the EDUC 202 classes about KDP, handing out flyers, etc.

Service is important for outreach to the community as much as it is for the members
to see the motivation behind our organization.  Service efforts can include food drives
and school supply drives for less fortunate individuals.  Monetary donations are also
accepted in place of physical donations when members may not be able to make it to
campus by the deadline.

Amount of Dues: International dues: You have the option of paying either $5.95 a month or a once a
year payment of $71.40. 

Local dues: $15.00 (per year)

Description of Organization: 

The Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society subscribes to the four ideals of Fidelity
to Humanity, Service, Science, and Toil. We endeavor to maintain professional fellowship,
enhance professional growth, and honor achievement in the field of education and related
helping professions.

Education is a vital force in any society that encourages universal welfare and individual
progress. Education is likewise the cornerstone of democracy and the foundation for
personal fulfillment. As an International Honor Society in Education, Kappa Delta
Pi has adopted and continues to pledge fidelity to four cherished ideals: Humanity,
Science, Service, and Toil.

The central ideal of fidelity to Humanity is faith in the potential of all human beings,
through education, to experience more meaningful lives. Kadelpians pledge their loyalty
to the ideal that young and old of every race and creed shall, through equality of
educational opportunity, enjoy physical health, social and political rights, and economic
justice.

Fidelity to the ideal of Science requires faithfulness to the cause of free inquiry.
It implies accepting proven and replicative truth as a way of eliminating prejudice
and superstition. It also implies not rushing to condemn the old and tested truth
to accept ideas and practices that seem new and spectacular. Fidelity to Science requires,
perhaps most of all, not distorting evidence to support a favored theory or practice.

A major incentive of the great teachers of the world has always been their desire
to serve learners of all ages, classes, and races. Kadelpians pledge fidelity to Service
as they enable learners and communities, through education, to achieve justice, peace,
and a better quality of life for persons everywhere.

Toil is the fourth ideal to which Kadelpians pledge fidelity. With faith in the social
necessity and intrinsic reward of the teaching profession, they show their will to
do what must be done. If one life is given greater freedom and nobler vision, toil
is not in vain.

So to teach that my words and actions inspire a will to learn; so to serve that each
day may enhance the growth of exploring and expanding minds; so to live that I may
guide young and old to know the truth and love the right. To the fulfillment of these
ideals, I pledge my efforts and loyalty.

Website: https://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/depts/teach_lrn/student_success/stud_orgs/kdp/kdpzeta_chapter.htmInstagram

 

Psi Chi, International Honor Society in Psychology

President: Jacey Fitzmorris (jacey.fitzmorris@southeas)

Advisor: Sara Sohr-Preston (sara.sohr-preston@southeast)

Requirements for Membership:

Undergraduate students must: 

  • be enrolled as a major or minor in a psychology program or a program psychological
    in nature
  • have completed at least 3 semesters or equivalent of full-time college coursework
  • have completed at least 9 semester credit hours or equivalent of psychology courses
  • have earned a cumulative GPA that is in the top 35% of their class (sophomore, junior,
    or senior) compared to their classmates across the entire university or the college
    that houses psychology (minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4-point scale)
  • have a minimum 3.0 GPA average for psychology courses

Graduate students must:

  • be accepted into and enrolled in a psychology or closely related graduate program
  • have completed at least 9 semester credit hours of graduate psychology courses in
    that program
  • have an overall GPA of at least 3.0 in all graduate courses including psychology courses
  • meet their graduate program’s requirements (e.g., if specific courses require an A
    or B, students must meet those requirements even if their cumulative GPA is above
    3.0)

Amount of Dues: $55 national dues (one time) and $10 chapter dues (per semester)

Description of Organization: Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, was founded in 1929 with a
mission to encourage excellence in scholarship and advance the science of psychology.
Psi Chi’s purpose shall be to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship
of the individual members in all fields, particularly in psychology, and to advance
the science of psychology. Psi Chi serves two major goals: one immediate and visibly
rewarding to the individual member, the other slower and more difficult to accomplish,
but offering greater rewards in the long run. The first of these is the Society’s
obligation to provide academic recognition to its inductees by the mere fact of membership. The second goal is the obligation
of each of the Society’s local chapters to nurture the spark of that accomplishment
by offering a climate congenial to members’ creative development. For example, the chapters make active attempts to nourish and stimulate professional
growth through programs designed to augment and enhance the regular curriculum and
to provide practical experience and fellowship through affiliation with the chapter.
In addition, the international organization provides programs to help achieve these
goals, including Society and regional conventions held annually in conjunction with
the psychological associations, research award competitions, and certificate recognition
programs.