Education honor society founded
The Alpha Kappa Kappa Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education is one of two new clubs at CSC.
Education Associate Professor Robin Brierly, the club’s adviser, started the CSC Alpha Kappa Kappa Chapter after completing all the necessary CSC Campus Activities Board and Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society organization requirements.
That process took Brierly about a year and a half and included inducting members into the honor society after applying to Kappa Delta Pi and then finding more members to meet CAB requirements.
The club currently has eleven members and is looking for more. Brierly plans to send out an email to eligible students saying they may contact her or any of the club’s executive officers if interested in joining.
“We would love to have new members so if anybody would like to contact one of the officers or myself, I will get them in touch with the right information,” Brierly said.
The president of the club is Rayleigh Farrenkopft, an elementary education major of Bridgeport. Her email is rayleigh.farrenkopft.eagles.csc.edu.
Alpha Kappa Kappa club is open to any student majoring in some form of education at CSC, so long as they meet the academic requirements: To join, undergraduate students must have at least a 3.5 GPA and be sophomore level or above. Graduate students with a GPA of at least 3.25 are also qualified to join.
Brierly decided on Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society over other options because it fits in well at CSC.
“We looked into a lot of the different education honor societies out there and Kappa Delta Pi was the one that we felt fit our values here at CSC,” she said.
She says she wants education students to be proud of their degree choice and their academic success achieved through hard work.
“My main reason for creating an honor society was I wanted our students to be proud that they were education students, and that they were going into a profession that they aren’t going to make a lot of money, but they should be proud to be part of the education system,” Brierly said. “I wanted them to be corded and have that pride at graduation.”
Brierly said Alpha Kappa Kappa and the current Education Club share many of the same members. She expects Alpha Kappa Kappa will function alongside the Education Club during club activities – which included movie and trivia nights in the past.
“We want fun activities that the students can get together and just kind of hangout and enjoy time together that we don’t really get right now with the pandemic,” she said.