Commencement - California State University, San Bernardino

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CommenCement 2011
CoLLege honors and distinCtions
College outstanding graduate student and College outstanding undergraduate student
Students are selected by a faculty committee to be the College’s Outstanding Graduate and
Undergraduate Student. The committee considers the student’s application, resume and letter of
recommendation in awarding this honor.
honor soCieties
At CALIFoRnIA StAte UnIVeRSIty, SAn BeRnARDIno
Membership in Beta alpha Psi is offered to junior and senior students who have a 3.0 GPA
with a declared concentration in accounting, finance, or information systems and who will have
the opportunity for self-development and affiliation among members and practicing business
professionals, The Iota Eta Chapter founded in 1997, has been nationally awarded Superior Chapter
for the last three years and has come to be a well recognized organization in the local business
community. Beta Alpha Psi sashes are black and red.
Membership in Beta gamma sigma is offered by invitation only to the top 10 percent of juniors and
seniors and the top 20 percent of business master’s students, only at institutions accredited by the
prestigious Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACBS International). This is the
highest business honor society recognition internationally. The CSUSB Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma
was chartered in 1995 and has been awarded Exemplary Chapter status by BGS Headquarters for the
last three years in a row. Sashes are royal blue and gold.
eta sigma gamma is the National Health Education Honorary Society, with headquarters on the
campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The Delta Delta chapter of ESG was installed on the
CSUSB campus on May 5, 1998. Membership requirements include a 3.0 GPA, and participation in a
minimum of two professional or club events per year. Annual club activities have included organizing
and sponsoring the HSCI Winter and Spring Banquets, participation in the American Cancer Society’s
Relay for Life (which ESG began on the CSUSB campus), hosting the American Lung Association
Inland Empire Conference at CSUSB, tree-planting, a Valentine’s Day Rose Sale, club T-shirt sale, plus
sponsoring a quarterly “Meet the Professional” for Health Science students. Membership is currently
open to all health science undergraduate and graduate students; dues are $10 per quarter. New
members are inducted bi-annually at the winter or spring banquet.
Lambda Pi eta, the national honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA),
recognizes, fosters and rewards outstanding scholastic achievement by students in the discipline of
communication studies, promotes and encourages professional development among communication
majors, and provides them with opportunities to discuss and exchange ideas, establish and maintain
closer relationships with faculty, and explore options for graduate education in the discipline.
Omicron Delta Epsilon is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies. Its objectives include
recognizing outstanding scholastic achievement in economics; establishing closer ties between
students and faculty of economics within and across universities; publishing its official journal, The
American Economist; and sponsoring panels at professional meetings as well as the Irving Fisher and
Frank W. Taussig research competitions. The CSUSB chapter of ODE is called Alpha Delta and was
founded in 1985.
The purpose of the Phi alpha honor society is to provide a closer bond among students of social
work and promote humanitarian goals and ideas. Phi Alpha fosters high standards of education for
social work students and invites into membership, those who have attained excellence in scholarship
and achievement in social work.