[125] MTSU Honors Chapter Earns Gold-Award Status

Sept. 29, 2010
CONTACT: Tom Tozer, 615-898-2919

MTSU HONORS CHAPTER EARNS GOLD-AWARD STATUS

MURFREESBORO—Middle Tennessee State University’s chapter of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) chapter has achieved the gold award. The chapter received the award at the recent NSCS Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is an honors organization for high-achieving freshmen and sophomores with more than 270 student-run chapters at universities across the country. The MTSU chapter was founded in 2000.
For Sherice Evans, the NSCS national staff representative who works with MTSU’s chapter officers, the award comes as no surprise.
“The members of MTSU’s chapter are amazing,” Evans said. “They have gone above and beyond by creating innovative programs and expanding and improving existing programs and have provided an exceptional experience for their members. They have truly embraced the ideals of NSCS.”
“NSCS is a wonderful organization, which gives lots of opportunities to its members,” said Laendia Buchanan, MTSU senior and president of the society. “We are very excited to receive gold star status. It is an honor, and I am proud to be president.”
“This is an amazing group of students,” Dr. Hilary Stallings, MTSU chapter adviser, noted. “They work hard both in and out of the classroom. Their dedication to scholastics and service is refreshing.”
The chapter will also receive a $250 chapter scholarship and letter to the president of MTSU to commemorate attaining gold status.
To achieve gold status, chapters are required to hold an induction ceremony for new members, create a student mentoring program, hold campus–wide events to support NSCS’ integrity initiative, create an on-campus membership recruitment campaign and engage a campus office in a chapter event.
NSCS chapters can attain one of four STAR status levels; bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Each level is determined based on the quantity and quality of events a chapter held the previous year. NSCS has more than 750,000 members and 270 chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.