Alpha Chi Honor Society

Alpha Chi is a coeducational society whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honor those who achieve such distinction. Its name derives from the initial letters of the Greek words aletheia, meaning truth, and xarakter, meaning character. As a general honor society, Alpha Chi admits to membership students from all academic disciplines. Membership in Alpha Chi recognizes previous accomplishments and provides opportunity for continued growth and service. It seeks above all else to serve the needs of the students who comprise its membership. As a phrase from its constitution suggests, Alpha Chi seeks to find ways to assist them in making scholarship effective for good.

Alpha Chi is opposed to bigotry, narrowness, and distinctions between people on any basis. Alpha Chi seeks to promote the genuine personal worth of each individual.

Psi Chi Honor Society In Psychology

Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, was founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of psychology. These aims are summarized in the two Greek words psyche, meaning the mind and its enrichment, and cheires, meaning research and fellowship. Membership is open to undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet the Society's qualifications of leadership and excellence in their scientific studies.