President: Marli Snaith ([email protected])
Advisor: Heather Oliver ([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
President: Victoria Debarbieris ([email protected])
Advisor: Amber Narro ([email protected])
Requirements for Membership:
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
President: Allan Moore ([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.
President: Katherine Kennedy ([email protected])
Advisor: Sara Sohr-Preston ([email protected])
Requirements for Membership:
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.
