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The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) is a voluntary association of national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies.It was established on December 30, 1925 by six organizations, including Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became the first African-American sorority to nationally incorporate on January 29, 1913. [26] A closeup of an Alpha Phi Alpha delegate badge from the 23rd Boulé. The tri-convention—consisting of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, and Kappa Alpha Psi—was held December 27–31, 1940, in Kansas City, Missouri. [18 ...
Kappa Alpha Psi (ΚΑΨ), an international historically Black fraternity, has chartered over 400 undergraduate chapters in the continental United States, plus alumni and international chapters. The fraternity has over 150,000 members and is divided into twelve provinces (districts/regions), with each chapter under the aegis of a province.
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
Alpha Kappa Kappa was established at Dartmouth Medical School on September 29, 1888. [3] It was created for "social intercourse, mental development, scholarship and mutual assistance." [ 3 ] The fraternity incorporated in New Hampshire by a special act of the legislature on July 25, 1889.
Young served as the Alpha chapter's first president, with Smith as the society's advisor. [2] Lambda Pi Eta became a part of the National Communication Association in 1988, and the official honor society of the NCA in July 1995. [3] Lamba Pi Eta joined the Association of College Honor Societies in 1996. [1]
Alpha Kappa Pi was a social fraternity founded on Jan. 1, 1921 at the Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology), under the name Phi Delta Zeta. A committee was formed to complete a plan for nationalization, largely by absorbing local fraternity chapters.
Golden Key National Honour Society was founded by James W. Lewis at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. [2] The original intent of the society was to create a new academic honor organization that was the equal of longstanding honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa, but which did not carry the same perceived elitism of older institutions, operating more strictly on merit ...