Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society held its spring 2011 initiation ceremony on May 1, adding 139 new members to UCA’s chapter. Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for students in their first year of higher education. Membership in ALD is open to all students at an institution with an ALD chapter who have earned a 3.5 or higher GPA in their first year or term of enrollment.
While students are extended an invitation to join Alpha Lambda Delta based on their first year GPA, they stay active and involved in the society throughout their college career. Alpha Lambda Delta was installed as a national chapter on UCA’s campus on April 25, 2010. It has made a positive impact on campus and in the Conway community during its short existence. The honor society raised $400 through its Hot Cocoa for HAVEN House fundraiser for HAVEN. In the spring, the society’s service efforts benefited the Faulkner County Humane Society. More than $200 and supplies were collected to benefit the humane society.
Our members represent the top students enrolled at the University of Central Arkansas and they join an elite group of top students from around the United States. At UCA, Alpha Lambda Delta focuses on three main aspects of our society: (1) scholarship – encouraging each other to maintain exemplary academic success and creating scholarship opportunities for our chapter, (2) support – both academically and socially, and (3) service – to our campus community and the community in which we will live for the next four years.
In October, ALD faculty advisor, Casey Griffith, traveled with two Executive Council members, Brooke Tunstall and Deziree Tull, to the National Alpha Lambda Delta Leadership Workshop where they met with ALD chapters from around the country, learned how to effectively lead their local chapter, discovered ways to increase participation within their chapter, and how to produce award-winning entries for national scholarships and awards.
For more information on UCA’s Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, visit our website (www.ucaalphalambdadelta.org) or our Facebook page (Alpha Lambda Delta First Year Honor Society at UCA).