This booklet is sponsored and produced by
Alpha Chi
Advisor: Dr. Mark Malinauskas, Dr. Sarah Aguiar
Campus Address: 324 Wells Hall
E-mail: mark.malinauskas@murraystate.edu
National Organization, Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Alpha Chi is a coeducational
academic honor society. Since 1922, its
purpose has been to provide academic excellence and exemplary character among
college and university students and to honor those who achieve such
distinction.
Requirements to Join: Alpha Chi is a general honor society that admits
students from all academic disciplines.
Membership is limited to the top 10 percent of an institution's juniors
and seniors.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Some 300 chapters, located in almost every state
and in Puerto Rico, induct more than 11,000 members annually.
Alpha Lambda Delta
Advisor: Marcie Johnson
Campus Address: 7C-6, Faculty Hall, Dept. of English & Philosophy
E-mail: marcie.johnson@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $35 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Alpha Lambda Delta is a national
society that honors academic excellence during a student's first year of
college. Founded at the University of
Illinois in 1924, Alpha Lambda Delta has more than 240 chapters throughout the
nation. The Murray State chapter was
chartered in 1967.
Requirements to Join: Eligible students
are those who have attempted at least 15 hours of credit in one of their
freshman semesters and have earned, with those 15 or more hours, a semester
grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Officers
initiate new members each year and organize social and service activities. The national organization sponsors an annual
undergraduate scholarship competition, awarding thirty-five $1,000 scholarships
to selected applicants.
Alpha Phi Sigma
Advisor: Dr. Paul Lucko
Campus Address: 101 S AS
E-mail: paul.lucko@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $40 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Alpha Phi Sigma is a nationally
recognized honor society for students in the field of criminal justice. The society recognizes academic excellence by
undergraduate and graduate students of criminal justice as well as students in
the juris doctorate field.
Requirements to Join: Undergraduate
majors or minors in criminal justice are eligible for membership after
completing 42 semester hours overall with a minimum grade point average of 3.0
and 1 hours in criminal justice with a minimum grade point average of 3.2 in
criminal justice course work. Murray
State University’s Delta Phi Chapter offers an affiliate membership for
undergraduate students who major or minor in criminal justice and have met the
grade point requirements, but have not yet completed the required number of
credit hours for full membership.
Affiliate members must have completed 30 semester hours with a minimum
grade point average of 3.0 and at least 3 hours in criminal justice course work
with a 3.2 grade point average.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Alpha Phi Sigma offers leadership and group
organizational experience to those students interested in doing a little
more. The local chapter contains four
elected officer positions. The national
chapter officer positions are also open to nomination of active members. There is a national conference that is held
in conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, which provides
opportunities to meet with professionals in the field and the chance to make
valuabel contacts. Members are also
entitled to receive the bi-annual newsletter, The Docket, which contains information on the National Organization
and the criminal justice field.
Alpha Sigma
Lambda
Advisor: Billie Burton
Campus Address: CEAO, 303 Sparks Hall
E-mail: billie.burton@murraystate.edu
http://campus.murraystate.edu/abc/asl/.htm
National Organization, $20 Membership Fee
Description: Alpha Sigma Lambda is a national
organization for students in continuing higher education. It was founded in 1945 and has nearly 300
institutional chapters. The Murray State
chapter, Eta Delta, was founded in 1989.
Requirements to Join: Must have had a break in formal education; must be
admitted to Murray State and have a minimum of 24 semester hours taken and
graded at MSU; must have a minmum grade point average of 3.4; must have at
least twelve hours in Liberal Arts & Science (University Studies). Transfer courses may be used to fulfil this
requirement. Members will be selected
from the highest ten percent of those who apply.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored:This organization is strictly an honor group. There are not officers or meetings. The annual induction is conducted by the
advisor.
Alpha Tau Alpha
Advisor: Dr. Jay Morgan
Campus Address: 213 AS-S, School of Agriculture
E-mail: jay.morgan@murraystate.edu
National Organization
Description: Alpha Tau Alpha is a professional
honorary organization for seniors planning to become teachers of agriculture
for grades 5-12 in public schools.
Requirements to Join: Eligible students
must hold a 3.0 grade point average, be admitted to the student teaching
program, and be recommended by two faculty members.
Alpha Zeta
Advisor: Dr. Dwayne Driskill
Campus Address: 213 AS-S, School of Agriculture
E-mail: dwayne.driskill@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $85 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Alpha Zeta is an honorary
agriculture fraternity that shares a fellowship for agriculture and fellow
human beings. It is a professional
service fraternity.
Requirements to Join: Eligible students
must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade point average, excel in leadership,
scholarship, and citizenship, and have a major or area in agriculture.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Alpha Zeta
sponsors the School of Agriculture Volleyball Tournament and the Alpha Zeta
School of Agriculture Awards Banquet.
Beta Alpha Psi
Advisor: Robert A. Seay
Campus Address: Dept. of Accounting, BB 351 H
E-mail: rob.seay@murraystate.edu
Local: http://campus.murraystate.edu/org/bap/index.html
National: www.bap.org
National Organization, $85 National Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: As the premier professional business and financial information fraternity,
Beta Alpha Psi recognizes academic excellence and complements members’ formal
education by providing interactions among students, faculty, and professionals
and fosters lifelong growth, service, and ethical conduct.
Requirements to Join: Undergraduates must be an ACC, ACC/IS, ACC/FIN major,
have junior status, have completed one upper-level (300 or above) accounting
class, have a minimun grade point average of at least a 3.0 in all upper-level
accounting classes and a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or 3.25
in in the last 30 hours completed, and completion of pledge requirements. Graduate studens must be accepted into a
graduate program in accounting and enrolled in at least one graduate class,
completed one upper-lever accounting class, have a minimum 3.0 grade point
average in all upper-level accounting classes and a cumulative grade point
average of 3.0 or 3.25 in in the last 30 hours completed, and completion of
pledge requirements.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Events
include professional meetings, honors banquets, field trips, regional and
national conferences, tutoring services, Voluneer Income Tax Assistance, and
social activities.
Beta Beta Beta
(Tri-Beta)
Advisor: Dr. Susan Hendricks
Campus Address: Dept. of Biological Sciences
E-mail: susan.hendricks@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $100 Membership Fee
Description: Beta Beta Beta (TriBeta) is a society for students, particularly
undergraduates, dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of
biological study and extending boundaries of human knowledge through scientific
research.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members must be biology majors and havea grade point
average of at least 3.00.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Since its
founding in 1922, more than 175,000 persons have been accepted into lifetime
membership, and more than 430 chapters have been established throughout the
United States and Puerto Rico. Locally,
TriBeta
sponsors an annual high school scholarhship fair.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Advisor: Betty A. Driver
Campus Address: Dept. of Accounting
E-mail: betty.driver@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $40 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: The mission of Beta Gamma Sigma is
to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business and
personal and professional excellence in the practice of business.
Requirements to Join: Academic ranking
of those being considered must be in the upper 7% of the junior class, upper
10% of the senior class, or upper 20% of the graduating master's class.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Membership
in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student can receive
at an AACSB accredited school.
Gamma Epsilon Tau
Advisor: Gross Magee
Campus Address: 103 C AS, Dept of
IET
E-mail: gross.magee@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $15 Membership Fee
Description: Gamma Epsilon Tau (
Requirements to Join: Eligible students
must be a Graphic Communications Management major or minor with a minimum grade
point average of 2.8.
Hart College
Honor Society
Advisor: Dr. Chuck Hulick & Dr. Joy Navan
Campus Address: Hart College
E-mail: chuck.hulick@coe.murraystate.edu
$5.00 Membership Fee
Description: The Hart College Honor Society is
an honor society to recognize academic achievement among members of Hart
Residential College.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members
must be members of Hart College and a minimum grade point average of 3.2.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Events
sponsored are the glove, hat & scarf tree at Christmas, reding to local
elementary students on Dr. Seuss Day, and co-sponsorship of the Hart Relay for
Life team and Santa Project. Also, a
scholarship is given each semester.
Advisor: Don Bennett, David Eaton, Ron Cella
Campus Address: 6400 Hester College
E-mail: ron.cella@murraystate.edu
www.murraystate.edu/secsv/HesterColl/honor.htm
$10 Membership Fee
Description: The Hester College Honor Society is
an honor society to recognize academic achievement among members of Hester
Residential College.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members
must be members of Hester College, have sophomore standing, and a minimum grade
point average of 3.3.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The Hester
College Honor Socety sponsors the annual Hester College Recognition, Awards,
and Honors banquet and meets monthly.
The Honors Program
Director: Dr. Mark Malinauskas
Campus Address: 324 Wells Hall
E-mail: mark.malinauskas@murraystate.edu
Description: The Murray State University Honors
Program is a university academic program designed to teach able students how to
learn, how to think critically and creatively, and how to communicate
effectively. This program has been
designed to provide future social and professional leaders with an appropriate
breadth and depth of knowledge and a sense of cultural and social
responsibility.
Requirements to Join: Eligible entering
students are required to have a score of 26 or better on the ACT. Currently enrolled students must maintain a
3.2 grade point average. Students who
complete the honors sequence are eligible to graduate with the honors
diploma. The honors sequence in comprised
of a designated university studies program, foreign language competency, a
study abroad program, and a senior honors thesis. Students must be enrolled in at least one
honors course per semester.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The Honors
Program Student Council, which is comprised of elected student representatives
from each class, plans social and cultural events as time will allow. The MSU Honors Program is a member if the
Kentucky Honors Roundtable, the Southern Regional Honors Conference, and the
National Collegiate Honors Conference.
Our description appears in Petersen's Guide to Honors Programs and
Colleges.
Lambda Alpha (Beta
of KY)
Advisor: Dr. Ken Carstens
Campus Address: 201 Wilson Hall, Dept. of GSC
E-mail: kenneth.carstens@murraystate.edu
National Organization
Description: Lambda Alpha is the national Anthropology
honor society. As an honor society, Lambda Alpha serves to recognize
superiority, providing incentive for exceptional performance by granting
certificates of accomplishment.
Requirements to Join: Eligible
members must be have at least a 3.0 overall grade point average, and a 3.0 or
better in anthropology and archaeology courses.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Lambda
Alpha sponsors an annual awards banquet and presents an award at honors
day. The winning of an annually awarded
national scholarship provides $5000 to a deserving graduating senior majoring
in anthropology and a $1000 annual Dean's List award to a deserving junior. A
Graduate Research Grant is designed to encourage overseas thesis research. The
award is variable ranging from $2000 to $6000.
The National
Society of Collegiate Scholars
Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Gayman
Campus Address: 4385 Hart College
E-mail: nscs@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $60 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: The National Society of Collegiate
Scholars is an honors organization recognizing outstanding academic achievement
among first- and second-year college students. It encourages the development of
leadership skills through community service, grants, scholarships, and offers
many other opportunities to its members.
Requirements to Join: Any student with
an overall 3.4 grade point average and 12-59 credit hours is eligible to become
a member.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: NSCS
sponsors scholarships and awards, leadership development activities, service
projects, community building, and information sharing. Nationally, there are opportunities for
scholarships and other recognition.
Locally, NSCS works with the Angel's Attic thrift store and offers a
scholarship through Murray State University.
Omicron Delta Kappa
Faculty Advisor: Jane Hall
Faculty Secretary: Dr. Don Robertson
Campus Address: 7336 Regents College
E-mail: odk@murraystate.edu
Local Website: http://campus.murraystate.edu/org/odk
National Website: www.odk.org
National Organization, $60 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Omicron Delta Kappa is the national
leadership honor society for college students, faculty, staff, administrators,
and alumni that recognizes and encourages superior scholarship, leadership, and
exemplary character. Membership in ODK is a mark of the highest distinction and
honor. The purpose of Omicron Delta Kappa is threefold: 1) to recognize those who have exhibited a
high standard of leadership and efficiency in collegiate activities; 2) to
bring together student leaders from all sectors of collegiate life in order to
help mold the sentiment of the university for questions of local and collegiate
interest; and 3) to bring together members of the faculty and the student body
on a basis of mutual interest and understanding.
Requirements to Join: Eligible students
must have at least 60 credit hours and rank in the top 10% of his or her
academic college. In addition,
applicants are ranked on a points system with regard to their involvement in: Scholarship; Athletics; Campus/ Community
Service, Social/Religious Activities, and Campus Government; Journalism, Speech
and the Mass Media; and Creative and Performing Arts
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: ODK
sponsors the Student Leader of the Month and Advisor of the Month award, hosts
a reception for all Leader of the Month winners, selects a Leader of the Year,
and coordinated this campus honors organizations list. Members participate in monthly meetings and
are eligible to attend province and national conventions.
Phi Alpha Theta
Advisor: Stephanie Carpenter/Jamie
Whidden
Campus Address: History Department
E-mail:
stephanie.carpenter@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $40 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Phi Alpha Theta is a professional
society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the
encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of
learning and ideas among historians. Phi
Alpha Theta seeks to bring students, teachers and writers of history together
for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical
research and publication by members in a variety of ways.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members must have 12 hours of history with at
least a 3.1 grade point average in history classes.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Nationally,
at the biennial
convention, undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to meet
distinguished historians and to present their own research papers. Phi Alpha Theta presents special programs at
the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of
American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Western History
Association, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association,
Missouri Valley Historical Conference, the Southwestern Social Sciences
Association, and many state Historical associations.
Phi Eta Sigma
Advisor: Dr. Mark Malinauskas
Campus Address: 324 Wells Hall
E-mail:
mark.malinauskas@murraystate.edu
National Organization, Lifetime Membership
Description: Phi Eta Sigma is a national honor society inspired by the past and
dedicated to the future whose goal is to encourage and reward academic
excellence among freshmen in institutions of higher learning. Induction is an
outward recognition of personal accomplishment and serves as an incentive for
continued high scholarship. It provides members the opportunity to meet
freshman scholars from all academic disciplines on their campuses and to join
them in promoting academic excellence.
Requirements to Join: All freshmen who have a cumulative grade point average
of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale at the end of any full-time curricular period
are automatically eligible for membership, provided they have carried a normal
academic load acceptable toward a bachelor's degree and rank in the upper 20
percent of their class.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The oldest and largest freshman honor society, Phi
Eta Sigma was founded at the University of Illinois on
Pi Mu Epsilon
Advisor: Dr. Maeve McCarthy
Campus Address: 6C Faculty Hall
E-mail:
maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu
Local: http://campus.murraystate.edu/org/math/index.html
National: www.pme-math.org
National Organization, $20 National Membership Fee
Description: Pi Mu Epsilon is a nationally recognized mathematics honor society. The purpose of
Requirements to Join: Sophomores must be majoring (or intending to major) in
mathematics, have completed at least three semesters of college mathematics
(including two semesters of calculus), have achieved a straight A record in all
math courses taken, and have an overall grade point average of at least
3.20. Juniors and seniors must have at
least two years of college mathematics including claculus, have at least a B
average in math, and an overall grade point average of at least 3.06 for juniors
and 3.15 for seniors. Juniors and
seniors do not have to be math majors to join.
The mathematical work of graduate students must be at least equal to
that of undergraduates, and they must have maintained at least a B average in
mathematics during their last school year.
Any faculty member in mathematics (or a related subject) is welcome to
join.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: To promote mathematics, the National
Pi Mu Epsilon Council sponsors an annual
conference in conjunction with the Mathematics Association of
America (MAA).
Pi Sigma Alpha
Advisor: Dr. Gene Garfield
Campus Address: 5A-4 Faculty Hall, Dept of
E-mail: gene.garfield@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $30 National Membership Fee, $10 Local Fee
Description: The Zeta Phi chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science
Honor Society, aides in effecting the interchange of ideas regarding political
science through sponsorship of speakers, forums, conferences, and other similar
activities. It is a member of the
Association of College Honor Societies and was chartered on the Murray State
campus in 1974.
Requirements to Join: An undergraduate student must have completed at least
ten semester hours in political science courses with at least a 3.0 overall
grade point average. A graduate student
must have maintained a 3.5 overall grade point average in political science
courses taken at the graduate level and an overall graduate grade point average
of at least 3.5.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The Zeta
Phi chapter sponsors an annual program, the Waterfield Distinguished Lecture and
"Talk Politics."
Psi Chi
Advisor: Dr. Lori Harris
Campus Address: 401 C Wells Hall
E-mail: lori.harris@murraystate.edu
National Organization, $45 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Psi Chi is a national honor society
in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating,
and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of
psychology.
Requirements to Join: Eligible
students must be a Psychology major, have completed three semesters, completed
nine semester hours of psychology courses, rank in the top 35% of their class
in general scholarship, and have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in both
psychology classes and in cumulative grades.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The Society publishes a quarterly
magazine, Eye on Psi
Chi, which helps to unite the members, inform them and
recognize their contributions and accomplishments. The quarterly Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research,
fosters and rewards the scholarly efforts of undergraduate psychology students
and provides a valuable learning experience by introducing them to the
publishing and review process..
The
Advisor: Dr. Laura Dawkins, Dr.
Duane Bolin
Campus Address: Regents College
E-mail: rchs@murraystate.edu
http://campus.murraystate.edu/org/regents/honor.htm
One time $5.00 Membership Fee
Description: The Regents College Honor Society is designed to recognize and promote
academic achievement among members of Regents College.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members
must be members of Regents Residential College, have at least 15 credit hours,
and have and maintain at least a 3.3 overall grade point average.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The RCHS
sponsors the Regents' Christmas Angel Tree, annual Need Line food drive, the
Regents Majors Fair, and an annual induction ceremony. A book scholarship is given to a deserving
member each year.
Advisor: Tracey Bernard
Campus Address: 157 IT
E-mail:
tracey.Bernard@murraystate.edu
www.murraystate.edu/cit/osh/oshclubs.htm
National Organization, $10 per semester
Description: The purpose of Rho Sigma Kappa is to honor and recognize those students of
Occupational Safety & Health who distinguish themselves through academic
achievement and exemplary character.
Requirements to Join: Undergraduates
must have completed at least 60 credit hours with a cumulative grade point
average of 3.0. They must have at least
15
Sigma Gamma Epsilon
Advisor: Dr. Peter Whaley
Campus Address: Dept. of Geosciences
E-mail: tamra.boyd@murraystate.edu
http://www.earth.uni.edu/SGE/index.html
National Organization, $15 Membership Fee, $175 Lifetime Membership Fee
Description: Sigma Gamma Epsilon was established to recognize scholarship and
professionalism in the Earth Sciences. It has for its objectives the
scholastic, scientific, and professional advancement of its members and the
extension of relations of friendship and assistance among colleges and
universities that are devoted to the advancement of the Earth Sciences.
Requirements to Join: Any person in any
branch of the Earth Sciences who has completed at least 12 semester hours in
Earth Science courses and has maintained a minimum 3.0 grade point average in
all Earth Science courses together with an overall grade point average of 2.67
is qualified for membership.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Annual
meeting; field trips, publication The Compass
Sigma Pi Sigma
Advisor: Dr. Steve Cobb
Campus Address: BL 131
E-mail: steve.cobb@murraystate.edu
National Organization
Description: Sigma Pi Sigma exists to honor outstanding scholarship in physics; to
encourage interest in physics among students at all levels; to promote an
attitude of service of its members towards their fellow students, colleagues,
and the public; to provide a fellowship of persons who have excelled in
physics.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members
must have completed PHY 235, 255, and one PHY course 300 level or above and
have at least a 3.0 overall grade point average with at least a 3.0 grade point
average in physics courses.
Sigma Theta Tau
International (Delta Epsilon Chapter)
Advisor: Sharon Myatt, Renee Ridley
Campus Address: 120 Mason Hall
E-mail: sharon.myatt@murraystate.edu
International Organization, $65 Membership Fee
Description: Sigma Theta Tau International,
honor society of nursing, provides leadership and scholarship in practice,
education, and research to enhance the health of all people. Members are nursing scholars committed to the
pursuit of excellence in clinical practice, education, research, and
leadership.
Requirements to Join: Undergraduate students must have completed half of the
nursing curriculum, have at least a grade point average of 3.0, rank in the
upper 35% of their class, and meet the expectation of academic integrity.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: Induction
is held once a year in the fall.
White College Honor
Society
Advisor: Jeff Frame
Campus Address: 200 AS-N
E-mail: jeff.frame@murraystate.edu
Description: The White College Honor Society is
dedicated to the promotion of scholarship, networking, and social interaction
among members of White College.
Requirements to Join: Eligible members
must be members of White Residential College, posses an interest in
scholarship, and have a minimum 3.0 grade point average.
Additional Info/Events Sponsored: The White
College Honor Society participates in academic tournaments, culture enhancement
field trips, and community service.