Kappa Delta Pi
Trinity International University is home to the Omega Alpha chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), an international honor society in education.
KDP is a network of over 520 chapters with 60,000 members around the world. It is organized to promote scholarship and excellence in education. Its membership is inter-generational, and members include undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and administrators, classroom teachers, school administrators, and retired educators interested in supporting and encouraging the next generation of teacher-scholars. Members receive helpful publications, are invited to attend nationally sponsored conferences, job fairs, and worldwide study tours, and have the opportunity to apply for scholarships and awards. Trinity's KDP chapter has sponsored recent service projects including:
- community service at local schools
- book fairs that provide books to needy schools
Kappa Delta Pi awards a variety of scholarships to qualified member students. Trinity candidate Joshua Held is a 2008 recipient of the J. Jay Hostetler Scholarship from Kappa Delta Pi. To learn about KDP scholarship opportunities, visit http://www.kdp.org/scholarships/list.php.
In order to be eligible for membership Trinity's Omega Alpha Chapter must:
- maintain an Education GPA of at least 2.75 after 12 hours of education-prefix course work, with at least one methods course
- maintain a Cumulative GPA of 3.5 after 30 hours
- have officially declared an education major and passed through Gate 1 Admission to the School of Education
- have a positive dispositions review with recommendation of School of Education faculty
- participate in initiation
Qualified students are invited to become members at the annual meeting held during the spring semester.
To learn more about Kappa Delta Pi, visit their web page at http://www.kdp.org/.
