The mission of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, is to honor and develop leaders; encourage collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and alumni; and promote O∆K's leadership values of collaboration, inclusivity, integrity, scholarship, and service on college and university campuses throughout North America.
(see more)The mission of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, is to honor and develop leaders; encourage collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and alumni; and promote O∆K's leadership values of collaboration, inclusivity, integrity, scholarship, and service on college and university campuses throughout North America.
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates Collegiate Conference Presenters
Thirteen collegiate members of Omicron Delta Kappa presented concurrent sessions at the 2023 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Conference, held November 17-19, at the Westin Buckhead Atlanta in Atlanta, GA.
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2023 Dec 13
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates Collegiate Conference Presenters
Sixteen collegiate members of Omicron Delta Kappa presented concurrent sessions at the 2022 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Conference, held June 2-5, 2022, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.
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2022 Aug 12
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates Circle Presidents
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, celebrates students who are serving as circle (chapter) presidents. Students who serve as circle presidents are leaders amongst leaders. Members of ODK must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class and embrace the Society's ideals. They also must demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars of campus life celebrated by ODK: academics and research, athletics, service to campus and community, communications, and creative and performing arts. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2023 Nov 27
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates Circle Presidents
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, celebrates students who are serving as circle (chapter) presidents. Students who serve as circle presidents are leaders amongst leaders. Members of ODK must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class and embrace the Society's ideals. They also must demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars of campus life celebrated by ODK: academics and research, athletics, service to campus and community, communications, and creative and performing arts. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2023 Oct 20
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates New Members
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, welcomed 348 new initiates from 12 universities during October 2023. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2023 Nov 27
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates New Members
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, welcomed 146 new initiates from seven universities during September 2023. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2023 Oct 20
Tahrington Phillips Receives Kenneth P. Ruscio Scholarship from ODK
Tahrington (Tahri) Phillips (Washington and Lee University, 2022) is a 2023-2024 recipient of a Kenneth P. Ruscio Scholarship from Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Tahri graduated summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University (W&L) in May 2023 with a bachelor's degree in English and Cognitive and Behavioral Science and a minor in Africana Studies. Tahri was one of only two juniors at W&L to be initiated in spring 2022 into both Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. She was the Head Community Assistant for Woods Creek and Theme Houses for the Office of Residence Life, the treasurer and public relations chair for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and a student representative on W&L's Student Affairs Committee. She was also a captain on the varsity women's basketball team, the co-president of W&L's all-female acapella group, a research assistant in a cognitive and behavioral science research lab, and a three-time student co-facilitator for W&L's First-Year Experience course. She received numerous awards during her undergraduate career, including the university's highest individual award, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. She is W&L's 18th Rhodes Scholar and will pursue a master's in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford. She plans to explore intervention strategies for at-risk and underrepresented youth inside and outside the classroom.
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2023 Sep 22
Mia Watts Receives Omicron Delta Kappa Scholarship
Mia C. Watts (Stockton University, 2022) is a 2023-2024 recipient of a scholarship from Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Mia will graduate from Stockton University in May of 2024 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She serves as Stockton University's Omicron Delta Kappa Circle treasurer and was named Stockton University's 2022-2023 Circle Officer of the Year. She found her passion for computers in a high school elective programming course and continues to work closely with instructors to research technology and its heavy influence on the business world. She co-created and co-leads an application development team that succeeded in providing a small business with a workable database system. Mia will pursue a graduate degree in computer science within the next three years, hoping to start an independent study on cloud computing before graduating from her current institution.
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2023 Sep 22
Andi Kezh Named ODK Leader of the Year for Service to Campus and Community
Andrea (Andi) Kezh of Decatur has been named the 2023 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leader of the Year for Service to Campus and Community. This award is one of the highest honors presented to an undergraduate member of the Society each year.
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2023 Sep 13
Blakely Hardin Named ODK Leader of the Year for Academics and Research
Blakely Hardin of Fort Mill has been named the 2023 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leader of the Year for Academics and Research. This award is one of the highest honors presented to an undergraduate member of the Society each year.
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2023 Sep 13
Jason Shows Recognized by Mississippi Humanities Council
Jason Shows, a 2004 initiate of the William Carey University Circle (chapter) of Omicron Delta Kappa, has been recognized by the Mississippi Humanities Council. Shows has been named the 2023 Humanities Teacher of the Year for the Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC). He was recognized with the same honor in 2013. He recently gave a special address, in conjunction with the award, entitled "The Basis and Foundation of the American Revolution." Shows has taught at MGCCC for more than 15 years. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Shows is an active member of the Mississippi Professional Educators and Faculty Association. He is also the 2022 recipient of the In The Blue Award from MGCCC and the 2010 Lamplighter Award.
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2023 Mar 13
Sean Schrader Selected to Serve on Omicron Delta Kappa's Student Advisory Board
Sean Schrader was initiated into the University of South Florida (USF) Circle (chapter) of Omicron Delta Kappa in May 2021, joining more than 100 other students in the reformation of the circle. In May 2022, he graduated from USF with his bachelor's degree in business management. In August 2022, Schrader began pursuing his MBA from the USF's Muma College of Business. Earlier this year, he also officially began his term as the campus governor for the USF St. Petersburg Campus in USF's Student Government. In this role, Schrader serves as the voice for students on campus and works with a student cabinet to address campus-wide challenges. As governor, he primarily focuses on connecting students to community activities, providing direct outlets for students to share their perspectives, and protecting the unique environment of the campus. Schrader has always been a major proponent of providing a youth's perspective on environments that may have been overlooked or not considered. To that end, he has been involved in various capacities in the City of Clearwater, including service as a board member for the Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition, Clearwater Charter Review Committee, and Clearwater Jazz Holiday. Currently, Schrader serves as the Clearwater At-Large Representative on the St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport Noise Abatement Task Force. During his first semester at USF in Fall 2019, Schrader was fortunate to be given the opportunity to serve as an intern in the office of a U.S. Representative, where he was able to assist in communicating with constituents and drafting congressional correspondence. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was asked to serve as a constituent advocate. In this role, Schrader assisted constituents in receiving their economic stimulus payments. In February 2021, he became the district office manager for the representative, where he helped to oversee daily office activities. Schrader is cognizant of the fact that Tampa Bay has grown to have a national spotlight due to business, sports, and community activities in the region. During the pandemic, he grew concerned about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on different industries and Tampa Bay's economy. To better understand how residents could help support different industries during times of economic hardship, Schrader toured different industries in the bay area to learn more about how customers could support them. His research and findings have been featured in local publications and shared at research conferences at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Johns Hopkins University.
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2022 Nov 9
Kevin K. Dua Honored with ODK's 2022 Emerging Leader for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Award
Kevin K. Dua, a resident of Reading, Massachusetts, is the 2022 recipient of Omicron Delta Kappa's (ODK) Emering Leader for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Award. Dua is a 2017 initiate of the Eta Circle (chapter) at William & Mary. As an undergraduate, he worked on everything from community building activities from service and leadership to residence hall community building. Dua even secured a Guinness World Record for the most people doing the Thriller Dance. He is currently a member of the William & Mary Student Engagement and Leadership Advisory Board. Dua was the Massachusetts 2017 History Teacher of the Year and is a two-time Massachusetts Teachers' Association's Human and Civil Rights awardee. He is a current member of the Ideation UpLift Legacy Cohort for K-12 Black Male Educators. Currently, Dua is a history and psychology teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Massachusetts. He introduced his expertise into discussions on anti-racism, unlearning, and strategies to increase equity in education in the age of Covid. Previously, Dua resurrected and served as an advisor to the award-winning Black Student Union in Cambridge. Over the years, he has become a relied upon leader and ally in examining the Black Lives Matter movement and its impact on teaching.
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2022 Aug 3
Brent D. Scholar Honored with the 2022 ODK Community Commitment Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity
Brent D. Scholar, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, is the 2022 recipient of the Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Community Commitment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity. Scholar is a 2018 faculty/staff initiate of the Arizona State University Circle (chapter) of ODK and a lecturer in the Department of Leadership and Integrative Studies at the university. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Diversity Leadership Alliance (DLA), the premiere diversity education organization in Arizona, and has been a part of the DLA's education and conference committees. In 2020, Scholar began directing the DLA's online Conversations to Ignite Change, providing education and discussion forums for more than 1,000 members about identifying racism, implicit bias, micro/macro aggressions, and how to be anti-racist. He also started the DLA's Equity Corner - a one-hour follow-up to monthly workshops where members can come together to discuss their efforts to be more inclusionary in their organizations and lives. More recently, Scholar has collaborated with E. I. Games to include game simulations that are based on empathy. In 2019, he was asked to review the company's Emotional Intelligent Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Game. Scholar's thoughtful feedback ultimately led to the game winning a gold medal at the Serious Play Awards in 2020.
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2022 Aug 3
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates New Members
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, welcomed 626 new initiates from 23 universities during December 2021. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2022 Jan 18
Omicron Delta Kappa Celebrates New Members
Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, welcomed 1,128 new initiates from 41 universities during November 2021. Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
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2021 Dec 13
Troy University announces Chancellor's List for Fall Semester/Term 2
Troy University is pleased to announce students who have been named to the Chancellor's List for the Fall Semester and Term 2 of the 2021/2022 academic year. Full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and who earn a grade point average of 4.0 qualify for the Chancellor's List. The Fall Semester includes students at the Troy, Ala., campus. Term 2 includes students at TROY's campuses in Dothan, Phenix City and Montgomery, Ala., along with locations outside of Alabama and online.
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2022 Jan 5
Klarke J. Stricklen Named 2022 Rhodes Scholar
Klarke J. Stricklen (Sewanee - The University of the South, 2021) has been selected as a 2022 Rhodes Scholar. Stricklen, a senior majoring in American studies and minoring in African American studies, is from Chattanooga. In addition to being a member of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), she is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society. At Sewanee, Stricklen has worked as a student research assistant for the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. She is also a member of the campus chapter of NAACP and the Roberson Project working group. In addition to her selection as a Rhodes Scholar, Stricklen has also been chosen to receive a Truman Scholarship. At Sewanee, she was previously the recipient of the Isabel Caldwell Marks Memorial Scholarship and the Davis Family Scholarship for leadership and community service. At Oxford, she plans to pursue a Master of Science and major in economics and social history.
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2021 Nov 22
Majority of cadets get first choice branch for upcoming Army officer assignments
Nearing the mid-point of their senior year, more than 70 cadets at The Citadel now know what branch of the Army they will enter after graduation. The soon-to-be Army officers received their branch assignments during a ceremony on Dec. 1 in Summerall Chapel.
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2021 Dec 8
Georgia Tech Summer 2021 Graduates Announced
The Georgia Institute of Technology awarded degrees to approximately 1,480 undergraduate and graduate students at the conclusion of summer semester.
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2021 Oct 18
Karen Shalev Elected 2021-22 Worcester State University SGA President
Karen Shalev, a 2021 initiate of the Worcester State University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, has been elected as the school's 2021-22 Student Government Association President. In addition to her roles with SGA and ODK, Karen is involved as a presidential student ambassador, Chabad on Campus, Delta Alpha Pi, Alpha Mu Gamma, and Lambda Pi Eta. Off campus, she's a rest home volunteer, Sunday school teacher, and StandWithUs New England campus coordinator. Karen will graduate in 2022 with her degree in visual and performing arts and communication. After completing her undergraduate degree, Karen plans to pursue a Master of Science with a major in communication at Clark University.
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2021 Sep 9
Bradford Webb Selected by Texas Rangers in Seventh Round of 2021 MLB Draft
Bradford Webb, an initiate of the Hampden-Sydney College Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, was selected in the seventh round of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft by the Texas Rangers. The Charlotte Court House, Virginia, native is a right-handed pitcher. After earning his undergraduate degree in business and economics at HSC, Webb was a graduate transfer student-athlete at Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2021 season. This year, he had 17 appearances for the Rams, 14 starts, 57 strikeouts, and a 3.16 ERA after 57 innings. Webb was the first HSC baseball player to be drafted since 1975.
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2021 Aug 23
Kailyn Brandt Selected as Centennial Conference Nominee for 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year Award
Washington College's Kailyn Brandt has been chosen as one of the two Centennial Conference nominees for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service, and leadership. The NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee identifies the Top 30 - 10 from each division - and from there selects three finalists from each division. The top 30 honorees will be announced in September, and the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced later in the fall. A biology major and chemistry minor from White Hall, Md., Brandt graduated this spring with a 3.92 cumulative grade point average and departmental honors in biology. She was a four-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Scholar of Distinction and National Academic Squad honoree, and a three-time CC Academic Honor Roll member. A perennial Dean's List student, Brandt was inducted as a Phi Beta Kappa Member in spring 2021 and also received Washington College's Pre-Allied Health Award. She served as president of Washington College's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) since its reformation in the fall of 2018, developing and facilitating initiatives promoting team unity, community outreach, and career development among student-athletes. She was also a key contributor to the Centennial Conference SAAC as Washington College's conference representative. Brandt's other leadership roles included serving as president of the Beta Beta Biological Honor Society and earning memberships in the Washington College Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows, the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.
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2021 Aug 17