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 What's New?
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Dues are $10.00 per year and are payable
by . If you don't pay your
dues you are not considered an active member and you cannot take
part in Psi Chi activities. Make a check out to
Culver-Stockton College and indicate on the check: "Psi Chi 2012
-2013 dues." Bring your check to the Culver Financial Office.
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Do you have something interesting to post to
the Psi Chi Bulletin Board? If so, bring it in! However, it
must be approved by an Officer or Dr. Bohémier of an officer of
Psi Chi.
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The next induction will be in September
of 2012.
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Election of Officers: September 2012.
What is Psi Chi?
Psi Chi is the National
Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of
encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in
scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership
is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making
the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet
the minimum qualifications. Psi Chi is a member of the Association
of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American
Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological
Society (APS). Psi Chi's sister honor society is Psi Beta, the
national honor society in psychology for community and junior
colleges.
Psi Chi functions as a
federation of chapter located at more than 890 senior colleges
and universities in the USA. The national office is located in
Chattanooga, Tennessee. A National Council, composed of
psychologists who are Psi Chi members and who are elected by the
chapter, guides the affairs of the organization and sets policy
with the approval of the chapters.
Psi Chi serves two
major goals: one immediate and visibly rewarding to the individual
member, the other 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. For example, the 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. In addition, 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. Also, the
Society publishes a quarterly Psi Chi newsletter,
Eye on Psi Chi, which helps to
unite the members as well as to inform and recognize their
contributions and accomplishments.
Students become
members by joining the chapter at the school where they are
enrolled. Psi Chi chapters are operated by student officers and
faculty advisors. Together they select and induct the members and
carry out the goals of the Society. All chapters register their
inductees at the national office, where the membership records are
preserved for reference purposes. The total number of memberships
preserved at the national office during the first 67 years is over
306,000. Many of these members have gone on to distinguished
careers in psychology.
Updated: Spring 2012 (GLB) |
