Campus Corner, March 11, 2020: Sumter, Clarendon and Lee county students excel at college
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH
CAROLINA BEAUFORT
BLUFFTON - The University of South Carolina Beaufort's top academic achievers have been announced. To be eligible for the President's List, students must obtain a term GPA of 4.00 earned on a minimum of 12 credited semester hours. To be eligible for the Chancellor's List, students must obtain a term GPA of 3.50 or higher earned on a minimum of 12 credited semester hours.
The following local students were named to the Chancellor's List:
- Sumter - Ebony Burgess; Kayla Chappell; Christen Hawkins; Genesis Hicks and Andrea McBride;
- Lynchburg - Albert Gardner;
- Dalzell - Tabitha Scruggs; and
- Rembert - Tarajah Wiley.
Local students named to the President's List were:
- Sumter - Patricia Aguilar; Aaron Griffith; Lauren Hawkins and Danielle Young;
- Summerton - Jodi Hatcher; and
- Dalzell - Stephanie Mcleod.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Lenord Lawson Jr. of Sumter was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Lawson was initiated at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Lawson 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 a different kind of honor society: one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Today, the Society has chapters on more than 300 campuses in the United States and the Philippines. Its mission is "To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others."