FE101OLA First Year Experience

Lesson 1Module 4

Academic Honors

At Manor College, academic honors are bestowed as recognition of outstanding academic achievement and as a means to further encourage sound scholarship.

In other words, your hard work and good grades won’t go unnoticed. The Dean, your program director and instructors, and the advisors for both of the college’s Honor Societies review students' final grades each semester to determine eligibility for academic honors and awards.

Dean’s List

• Dean’s List is an honor given to students when they have accumulated a certain number of credits and earned a certain GPA:– Full-time students must earn a minimum of 12

credits and have a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.– Part-time students will be eligible for inclusion on

the Dean’s List each semester after they have accumulated 12 Manor credits and have a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

There are many benefits that come with being on the Dean’s List:• A sense of personal

achievement and pride.• Increasing your eligibility for

scholarships.• A noteworthy

accomplishment to put on your transfer applications.

• Future employers will recognize it as a sign of your abilities and dependability.

• An achievement that can be noted by a mentor on a letter of recommendation.

Manor College has three academic divisions, Allied Health Science & Math, Business and Legal Studies, and Liberal Arts. Each Spring, each division honors its students in a special ceremony to award special academic honors and recognize many different forms of student involvement, such as community service.

Allied Health and Science Pinning Ceremony

• An award ceremony is held each Spring.

• Sophomores in career programs who fulfill eligibility requirements receive a pin which symbolizes readiness for entry into their chosen profession.

• Full-time and part-time Allied Health students are also eligible for certificates of excellence, merit, distinguished service and clinical proficiency.

Business Scholars Ceremony

• An award ceremony is held each Spring for all students in the Business Studies Division.

• Awards are given for excellence and service in the Accounting, Business, Information Systems and Technology, and Legal Studies programs.

• All graduating sophomores in the Business Studies Division are honored.

Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony

• Held each Spring to recognize graduating student achievements in the Liberal Arts.

• Full-time and part-time students are presented with certificates of excellence, merit, and distinguished service in the areas of: Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts with a concentration in Communications, Psychology, Middle Level Education (4-8) , and Early Childhood Education (PreK-4).

An honor society recognizes you for your ability to be academically successful and provides you with an opportunity to be part of a group of students who have similar academic goals. Most honor societies provide scholarships, career and networking resources, community service, activities on campus, and experiences that will add recognition and value to your college education.

Manor College has two Honor Societies to which students can be invited. Memberships in honor societies is based on the student’s scholastic average and the approval of the Academic Dean.

Invitations for both societies are distributed after the Fall semester.

One of Manor’s Honor Societies is the Alpha Beta Gamma - Upsilon Chapter. Alpha Beta Gamma is an International Business Honor Society established by business professors in 1970 to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year business and professional college students. The society is a member of The Association of College Honor Societies and has initiated 65,500 members.

Manor also inducts students into the Phi Theta Kappa - XI Chi Chapter of the National Honor Fraternity of the Two-Year Colleges. Phi Theta Kappa's mission is two-fold:• To recognize and encourage the

academic achievement of two-year college students and;

• To provide opportunities for individual growth and development through participation in honors, leadership, service and fellowship programming.

Here’s a photo of Tyler waiting to be inducted into Phi Theta Kappa. He was invited to join both Honor Societies.

Certificate ofAcademic

Honor

Certificate ofAcademic

Honor

I’m so proud of Marla. Here she is with Dean Mydlowec, her department chair and the college President, Sr. Cecilia, accepting academic honors at the Business Scholars Ceremony.

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