Honors and Awards

Honor societies

The three majors housed in our department are each associated with national honor societies which recognize students who have performed well academically.

If you are eligible to join the BSW honor society (Phi Alpha), the criminal justice honors society (Alpha Phi Sigma) or the sociology honors society (Alpha Kappa Delta), we will notify you by email in the first half of the spring semester. You can check eligibility requirements by clicking on the links for each society.

Induction into the honor societies occurs at events in the spring semester in the ballrooms in the student center.  

Click here to view the program for the 2023 Honors event.

Click here to view the program for the 2022 Honors event.

Awards 

In addition to honors induction, we bestow six awards to students each year, two for each major.  The Paul P. Vouras Sociology Award is given to the sociology major graduating with the highest GPA.  Beginning in 2022, the Criminal Justice Academic Award has been given to the CCJ major graduating with the highest GPA. Beginning in spring 2025, the Social Work Academic Award will be given to the BSW student graduating with the highest GPA.

We also bestow Outstanding Student awards to students majoring in each of the respective disciplines to students who have demonstrated exemplary academic performance as well as service to the community.  

Award winners since 2017 are listed below.

*Awarded at the 2022 ceremony since the student was graduating by the following January.