Academic Honors Day
McShain Performing Arts Center
Saturday April 5, 2008
10:30 a.m.
Criteria for Academic Honors: Students | Faculty
Rosemont College's 2008 Academic Honors Day will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in McShain Performing Arts Center. This event recognizes those students who have excelled in the classroom and have qualified for a special award of honor. The Undergraduate Women's College will also confer the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, as well.
Students and their guests are encouraged to sit together to enjoy the ceremony. However, since seating for all students and guests is not reserved, please be seated in McShain Auditorium no later than 10:15 am.
The Honors Day ceremony will be followed immediately by the Spring Reception in Cardinal Hall, to which you and your family are invited as guests of the College.
For more information contact the Vice President of Academic Affairs Office at 610.527.0200 X2364 or email jscangarella@rosemont.edu.
STUDENTS
Criteria for Academic Honors
Presidential Medal
The recipient of the Presidential Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon a Rosemont student, has demonstrated exemplary intellectual achievement as well as distinction in some combination of the following: service to the community, contribution to the arts, enlargement of our global perspective, athletic fitness and achievement, leadership, and contribution to community discourse.
Outstanding Junior Award
In 1976, the faculty established the Outstanding Junior Award to recognize and honor outstanding work in the major field by a student in her junior year at Rosemont. The student must be in the top ranks of the junior class with at least a 3.67 cumulative GPA. She must be nominated by the faculty in her major discipline and selected by the Academic Standards and Practices committee.
Rosemont College Honors Society
The Rosemont College Honors Society provides an arena in which talented students can play an active role in the academic and service life of the College. The requirements for membership are junior status with a minimum GPA of 3.67 and evidence of an active co-curricular life. Qualified students are invited to join the Society in the spring semester of their sophomore year. Transfer students who meet the criteria for membership are invited to join upon entering the College. Senior members prepare and present a culminating research project at the spring Academic Symposium (or its equivalent). The Academic Symposium is sponsored by the Rosemont College Honors Society and is open to the greater college community.
Delta Epsilon Sigma
Eligibility to Alpha Omicron, the Rosemont College chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma, a national honor society of Catholic colleges and universities, is based upon academic criteria as well as on qualities of character and achievement that give promise of leadership after graduation. Election is subject to voting by local membership. Traditional age full-time students who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.67 or better for five semesters at Rosemont are eligible for nomination to Delta Epsilon Sigma. Traditional age full-time students who are away from the Rosemont campus one or two semesters before completion of their junior year will be eligible for nomination if they have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.67 or better for four semesters at Rosemont. (This enables transfer students, students who go abroad, and students who participate in internships to be considered.) Matriculated full-time, non-traditional age students who entered Rosemont at age 24 or older with second semester junior status, who have completed at least 30 credits at Rosemont, who have been full-time for at least two semesters, and who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.67 or better will be eligible for nomination as determined in late February or early March, after all grades for the preceding fall semester have been recorded.
Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges is an annual recognition honoring our nation's leading college students. Established in 1934, it aims to recognize individual academic and leadership excellence at over eighteen hundred institutions of higher learning on a national level.
The Kistler Honor Society
Membership is earned by full-time juniors and seniors who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.67 for two consecutive full-time semesters with no incompletes and not more than one grade of pass/fail, exclusive of courses that are only graded on a pass/fail basis. The society is named for the late Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick Kistler, friends and eminent benefactors of Rosemont College.
Phi Sigma Iota
Phi Sigma Iota is the Foreign Cultures and Literature Division's chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, a national foreign language honor society that offers faculty and students recognition for outstanding ability and attainments in the teaching and study of foreign languages, the stimulation of advanced pursuits, and the promotion of cultural enrichment and international friendship fostered by knowledge of foreign languages and cultures.
Sigma Delta Pi
Spanish majors and minors who earn a GPA of at least 3.00 and who have completed two semesters of Spanish literature with a minimum 3.20 average are awarded membership in Sigma Delta Pi, a national Spanish honor society. They receive a certificate and a pin to honor them at the time of induction into the Omicron Chi Chapter of Rosemont College.
Theta Alpha Kappa
Theta Alpha Kappa is a national honor society for Religious Studies and Theology students. The purposes of the organization are to encourage, recognize and maintain excellence in Religious Studies and Theology within accredited baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate degree programs. Criteria for membership include: completion of a minimum of 12 credits in Religious Studies/Theology, a GPA of at least a 3.50 in Religious Studies/Theology, an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00, and staying in the upper 35% of one's class.
Dean's List
Full-time students who have attained a GPA of 3.67 during the preceding semester are nominated to the dean's list, provided they have no incomplete grades and not more than one grade of pass/fail, exclusive of courses only graded on a pass/fail basis.
Dean's List for Part-Time Study
Part-time students are eligible for dean's list recognition provided they have completed a minimum of four courses (16 credits) over a full academic year (September to August) and have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.82 or higher.
FACULTY
Criteria for Academic Honors
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
Each year the students and the faculty of the Undergraduate Women's College select the recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Funded by the Lindback Foundation, this prestigious award recognizes a member of the faculty for excellence in teaching.