CONWAY—The National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year College Students awarded a Delta Award at the Gold level to the UCA chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta. The Delta Award is part of National Alpha Lambda Delta’s family of chapter membership awards and honors those chapters whose membership has increased dramatically in the past year. During the 2013-2014 school year, UCA’s chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta initiated 137 new members, which is a 169% increase over last year’s class of initiated.
Founded in 1924, Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for students in their first year at an institution of higher education. The society recognizes students who have succeeded in maintaining a 3.5 or higher GPA and who are in the top 20% of their class in their first year. Alpha Lambda Delta has initiated more than 1,000,000 students and has awarded over 3 million dollars in scholarships across the country.
“We are so thrilled and honored to receive the Delta Award from ALD, especially at the gold level. Such an achievement could not have been possible without the dedicated and conscientious service of our student officers,” said Dr. Mark McMurtrey, the faculty/staff advisor for the UCA chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta. “They are the ones doing the heavy lifting, identifying and working with highly talented students in an effort to bring them into our ALD chapter. Such efforts paid off handsomely last year, with enrollment up 169%. The credit goes to them.”
Alpha Lambda Delta members represent the top students enrolled at UCA 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: scholarship – encouraging each other to maintain exemplary academic success and creating scholarship opportunities for our chapter, support – both academically and socially, and service – to our campus community and the community in which we will live for the next four years.