Katie Kim, a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School, and Colin Apel, a graduate of Capistrano Connections Academy, both from La Cañada Flintridge, earned the 2019 dean’s award for academic excellence at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Students who receive a term grade point average of 3.3 or higher while completing at least three courses for a conventional letter grade earn the fall award.
Colgate offers 56 majors and supports 25 Division I athletic teams on a campus of about 2,900 students in central New York.
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Lauren Case-McFate of Sunland was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Case-McFate was initiated at San Diego State University.
Case-McFate is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10% of seniors and 7.5% of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10% of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 under the leadership of undergraduate student Marcus L. Urann who had a desire to create an honor society that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Today, the Society has chapters on more than 300 campuses in the United States and the Philippines.