Omicron Delta Kappa Society (OΔK)
Purpose
Omicron Delta Kappa Society (OΔK) is a national leadership honor society for college students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni who have attained a high standard of leadership in collegiate activities in at least one of the five areas:
- Scholarship
- Athletics
- Campus or community service, social and religious activities, and campus government
- Journalism, speech, and the mass media
- Creative and performing arts
To bring together the most representative students in all phases of collegiate life and thus to create an organization which will help to mold the sentiment of the institution on questions of local and intercollegiate interest.
To bring together members of the faculty and student body of the institution on a basis of mutual interest and understanding.
By working towards these goals OΔK hopes to help members to develop as both as a member of the college community and as a contributor to a better society.
Becoming a member in OΔK is a mark of the highest distinction and honor in the leadership arena and is well recognized by leaders in both the academic and business worlds. Furthermore, as a founding member you will be leaving a legacy behind at this institution while simultaneously positively impacting the future of Nova Southeastern University
Who Can Join
Junior, Senior, or Graduate Students who have displayed exemplary character, scholarship and intelligence, service and leadership at Nova Southeastern University and/or community life.
Additionally, student membership candidates must rank in the upper 35 percent in scholarship of Nova Southeastern University.
OΔK History
Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington and Lee University, by fifteen students and faculty leaders. They felt that there was a need to recognize leadership and bring together faculty and students from the various phases of college life in the tradition of the idealism of George Washington and Robert E. Lee. They believed that through the sharing of opportunities and experience both the members of the society and the institution would benefit.
There were three principal founders of Omicron Delta Kappa: J. Carl Fisher, who was Business Manager of the Student Magazine; Rupert Nelson Latture, President of the YMCA; and, William Mosely Brown, Phi Beta Kappa. Together with three faculty members, including the President of the University and the Dean of Engineering, these men gradually selected nine additional men to affiliate with them. When there were fifteen members, the first public announcement of the establishment of Omicron Delta Kappa was made in the student newspaper on January 12, 1915. With the passage of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the first woman was elected to ODK in 1973.Prior to that; women were selected for Mortar Board and men for ODK.
Omicron Delta Kappa functioned in a most admirable way from the very outset. At first there was no thought of immediate extension to other institutions, but it was apparent that Omicron Delta Kappa, if properly conducted, would prove beneficial to any college campus where it might be established. Almost spontaneously requests for charters were received from local groups at The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Davidson College. By I917 there were four circles of Omicron Delta Kappa. These groups, impressed with The ODK idea, together formed the National Society.
It is a significant fact that Omicron Delta Kappa was the first college honor society of a national scope to accord recognition and honor for meritorious leadership and service in extracurricular activities and to encourage the development of general campus citizenship. It is to be noted that the Society has always had a strong secondary membership requirement of scholarship, although its prime requisites for membership are character and meritorious attainments in all-around leadership in college and university life.
NSU OΔK Society
Chartered on April 23, 2006; at which time the society inducted 12 undergraduate and graduate students and 6 advisors.
NSU OΔK officers and Advisors: (first
row left to right) Danielle Garcia, President; Cheyenne Poskey, Vice
President; (back row right to left) Taylor Liput, Secretary; Ben
Mulvey, Advisor; Terry Morrow, Advisor; Paul Borthwick, Advisor;
Reyna Gilbert, Advisor and Marcie Washington, Advisor.
NSU OΔK Society: (front row
from left to right) Cheyenne Poskey, Danielle Garcia, Taylor Liput (second
row from left to right) Marcie Washington, Jennifer Bowman, Michelle
Manley, Reyna Gilbert, Careen Hutchinson, Elizabeth Harbaugh, Giselle
Gaveria, Janette DelAngel, Shruti Slaghur (third row from left to right)
Stanley Kaszuba, Paul Borthwick, terry Morrow, Bel\n Mulvey, and Eric
Naples.