Psi Chi National Honor Society
Psi Chi is the National Honor Society of Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Psi Chi is a member of the Associate of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Psi Chi functions as a federation of chapters located at more than 930 colleges and universities in the United States.
Psi Chi serves two major goals—one immediate and visibly rewarding to the individual member, the others slower and more difficult to accomplish, but offering greater rewards in the long run. The first of these is the Society's obligation to provide academic recognition to its inductees by the mere fact of membership. The second goal is the obligation of each of the Society's local chapters to nurture the spark of that accomplishment by offering a climate congenial to its creative development.
Chapters make active attempts to nourish and stimulate professional growth through programs designed to augment and enhance the regular curriculum and to provide practical experience and fellowship through affiliation with the chapter. The national organization provides programs to help achieve these goals, including national and regional conventions held annually in conjunction with the psychological associations, research award competitions, and certificate recognition programs.
The society publishes Eye on Psi Chi, which helps to unite and inform members and to recognize their contributions and accomplishments; and the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, a national, fully reviewed, quarterly journal dedicated to the publication of student research.
Membership drives take place each semester. More information on Psi Chi is available in the department, or you can visit their website at www.psichi.org.
Minimum Qualifications for Acceptance
- Completion of at least 3 semesters of college.
- Completion of 9 semester hours of psychology.
- Registration as a major in psychology.
- In the upper 35% of one's class in general scholarship, as well as a GPA over 3.00.
- High standards of personal behavior.
- Two-thirds affirmative vote of those present at a regular meeting of the chapter.