UMUC students with superior academic records have the opportunity to join several national honor societies. Students who believe they are eligible for any of the following societies can obtain more information and application forms at
www.ed.umuc.edu/honorsocieties.
Alpha sigma lambda
UMUC students are eligible for membership in Alpha Sigma
Lambda, the national honor society for students in continuing
higher education. To qualify for membership, a student must be pursuing a first bachelor’s degree, have completed at least 30 credits at UMUC in courses graded A, B, C, D, or F, and maintained a GPA of 3.7 or higher in all UMUC courses. At least 15 credits, from UMUC or transferred, must be in courses outside the major. Students will be nominated.
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lambda Pi Eta
Membership in Lambda Pi Eta, the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA), is open to qualified UMUC students. To be eligible, students must have earned at least 60 credits toward the bachelor’s degree, including at least 12 credits in communication studies, with a GPA of 3.5 or higher in both communication studies and overall coursework. In addition, students must have completed at least 30 credits at UMUC.
national society of Collegiate scholars
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is an honor society recognizing students who have completed fewer than 60 credits toward an associate’s or bachelor’s degree and have shown academic excellence. The honor society encourages students to participate in honor society, campus, and community events, and provides resources for students to focus on their professional and leadership development. To be eligible, students must be seeking a first associate’s or bachelor’s degree. Students must have completed at least 12 credits at UMUC in courses graded A, B, C, D, or F and have a cumulative GPA of 3.4 or higher. In addition, students must have completed between 12 and 59 credits toward their degree. Students are invited to join the honor society in the spring semester.
Phi Alpha theta
UMUC students may qualify for membership in Phi Alpha
Theta, the international honor society in history. To qualify
for membership, students must attain a GPA of 3.5 or higher in at least 12 credits of UMUC history courses and have an overall UMUC GPA of 3.4.
Phi kappa Phi
The honor society of Phi Kappa Phipromotes the pursuit of excellence in all fields of higher education and recognizes outstanding achievement by students, faculty, and others through election to membership and through various awards for distinguished achievement. To qualify for membership, candidates must have completed at least 90 credits toward the bachelor’s degree, at least 45 of which must have been for UMUC courses carrying letter grades of A, B, C, D, or F. The candidate’s GPA in UMUC courses must be in the top 10 percent of the previous UMUC Europe graduating class.
Phi theta kappa
Phi Theta Kappa is a national honor society for associate’s
degree students. UMUC Europe’s chapter has been active since the 1998-1999 academic year. To be eligible for membership, students must have completed at least 45 credits toward their first associate's degree, including at least 30 credits with UMUC Europe with a cumulative GPA of 3.5.
Pi gamma mu
Pi Gamma Mu is the international honor society for the
social sciences and recognizes outstanding scholarship in the social sciences at UMUC. Membership is offered to qualified students interested in anthropology, criminal justice, economics, gerontology and aging services, history, political science, social psychology, sociology, and women’s studies. Students who are in their last 60 credits of undergraduate study, have earned at least 20 hours of social science credit (at least 9 earned from UMUC), and have a GPA that ranks in the upper 35 percent of their class may be invited to join.
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the international honor society in psychology,
founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of psychology.
Qualified students must be invited to join. To qualify for membership, students must have declared a major or minor in psychology and earned at least 30 credits toward a bachelor’s degree, including at least 9 credits in psychology. Additionally, qualified students must be in the top 35 percent of their class, based on rankings within sophomore, junior, and senior classes; have an overall GPA of at least 3.3 for sophomores and juniors and 3.5 for seniors; and have a psychology GPA of at least 3.3 for sophomores and juniors and 3.5 for seniors.
sigma tau delta
Membership in Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, is open to qualified UMUC students with a major in English. To be eligible, students must have earned at least 45 credits toward a bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.5 or higher. At least 30 credits must have been earned through UMUC and must include 12 credits of English, not including ENGL 101 (now WRTG 101), and 6 upper-level credits. Students must also have earned a GPA of 3.6 in English coursework at UMUC.
upsilon Pi Epsilon
The Kappa Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, is open to graduate and undergraduate students. To qualify for membership, undergraduate students must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a major in the computing and information disciplines, and must have completed at least 45 credits. Students should have completed at least 30 credits at UMUC in courses graded A, B, C, D, or F, including at least 15 credits in the computing and information disciplines, and must have a GPA of at least 3.5, overall and in all computing and information systems coursework. Students are inducted into the honor society twice a year.
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transcript Requests
Regular transcript requests may be submitted online through the MyUMUC student portal. Transcripts should be requested at least four weeks before they actually will be needed. Online requests can be processed with the following options: immediate processing, degree confer date, or grades posting. Forms for requesting rush or faxed transcripts are available at education centers and at www.ed.umuc.edu/transcripts. Mailed or faxed transcript requests must be signed by the student and should include the following information
G Student’s full name G Social Security number
G Names of all divisions of the University of Maryland
University College attended
G The first and last dates of attendance
If a student has not taken classes with any UMUC division in the past 10 years, then a paper transcript request form must be mailed in to the Transcripts Office. Mailed forms should be sent to the division (Europe, Asia, Stateside) where the student was most recently enrolled.
For additional information, e-mail [email protected].
Confidentiality
A transcript is an official record of a student’s work. All academic records are confidential. Therefore, UMUC Europe releases transcripts only upon receiving a signed request from the student or by receiving a request through MyUMUC. (For students who submit requests online, the student’s personal identification numbers are considered an official signature.)
Fees
A complimentary transcript is mailed at the time of degree conferral. All other transcript requests should be accompanied by payment of $10 for each transcript requested. Unofficial faxed transcripts are $15 per copy. There is no charge for sending a transcript to another institution in the University System of Maryland. Rush transcripts which are processed and mailed the next business day may be requested at a cost of $25 each. No transcript will be released until all financial obligations to UMUC have been satisfied.