Wichita State’s First-Generation Honor Society — the Alpha Alpha Alpha, or Tri-Alpha — is seeking students who want the opportunity to develop their leadership skills while growing and developing a new student-led organization. Applications will be accepted until Oct. 25 in preparation for membership induction Nov. 8.
Qualifications include: Neither of the student’s parents, step-parents nor legal guardians have completed a bachelor’s degree; student has earned a minimum of 30 credit hours toward a baccalaureate degree; student has achieved an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
Graduate students who are first generation can be admitted with the completion of a minimum of nine graduate credits and a minimum graduate GPA of 3.5.
Faculty and staff can also qualify for induction by meeting the first gen definition at the time they completed their bachelor’s degree, and they must be willing to serve as mentors for students.
There is a one-time fee of $25 for students and $40 for faculty and staff for lifetime membership to the First-generation Honor Society. For more information, contact trialpha@wichita.edu.