Undergraduate Program - Honors and Awards
2013 Undergraduate Awards and Alpha Kappa Delta Initiation Ceremony
The following undergraduate students were honored:
Phylicia Rios Rivera, Joan W. Moore Service-Scholar Award, Jzazell Chambliss, Distinguished Scholar Award, and Logan Marq, Distinguished Scholar Award
2012-13 Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society, Inductees:
Miguel E. Alvelo Rivera, Jessie Bennett, Jesse Joseph Clark, Michelle C. Lewis, Ashley Neureuther, Jordan C. Schrader, and Elizabeth Vander Heyden
Sociology honors and awards to undergraduate majors:
Honors in the Major
Sociology majors who have maintained at least a 3.0 GPA overall and a 3.5 GPA in courses taken for the major are awarded the distinction 'Honors in the Major' when they graduate.Alpha Kappa Delta
The Department of Sociology has a chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society. You can learn more about this important organization by visiting their website: http://sites.google.com/site/alphakappadeltainternational/. Applications are mailed in the Fall to those majors who meet the following eligibility criteria:• at least juniors in status;
• officially declared sociology majors;
• have accumulated a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.3;
• have maintained a 3.0 cumulative GPA in all sociology courses; and
• have completed at least four sociology courses prior to initiation.
There is a $48 initiation fee which entitles the initiate to a lifetime membership in AKD, a one-year subscription to the journal, Sociological Inquiry (renewable at member’s option), a membership certificate suitable for framing and graduation honor cords.
Every year in April, the sociology department hosts an award ceremony on campus to honor new AKD inductees as well as recipients of the undergraduate Distinguished Scholar and Joan W. Moore Service-Scholar awards (see below). Thus, participation in this organization is a great way to connect yourself to the department and the discipline of sociology.