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The Association of College Honor Societies was formed in 1925 to create a network of affiliated societies and promote standards for scholarship and leadership on campus. The founding societies intended to establish and maintain desirable standards for groups wishing to call themselves honor societies.
Honor societies exist at the high school, collegiate/university, postgraduate, and professional levels, although university honor societies are by far the most prevalent. In the United States, the oldest academic society, Phi Beta Kappa , was founded as a social and literary fraternity in 1776.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is a national non-profit academic honor society for college students in the United States. NSCS has active chapters at nearly 300 colleges and universities in the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. [1] [2]
Mortar Board is an American national honor society for college seniors. [1] It was established on February 16, 1918, in Syracuse, New York, by the merger of four local women's organizations from four institutions. [1]
This category contains honor societies that belong to the Association of College Honor Societies. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Phi Theta Kappa originated from Kappa Phi Omicron, an honor society established at Stephens College in Missouri, a two-year college for women. As similar honor societies formed in Missouri, the college presidents and students of eight Missouri women's colleges came together in 1918 to create a single honor society—Phi Theta Kappa.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) [a] is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776. [ 4 ] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at ...
Kappa Omicron Nu is an American college honor society for students in human sciences.It was established by the 1990 merger of Omicron Nu and Kappa Omicron Phi.. Chapters that were part of the predecessor society Kappa Omicron Phi have the prefix "Kappa" before their Greek letter chapter name.