Scholarship
Tri Deltas Striving for Success
While being a part of a sorority is full of fun and friendships, Tri Delta also strives to enhance the academic life of our members. Scholarship is the highest standard in which the Alpha Psi chapter holds itself to and encourages all of its members to succeed in. In our chapter’s bylaws it holds each member to maintain a GPA above 2.6 and all officers must have over a 2.8 GPA in order to stay active. To keep our sisters accoutable, our Academic Chair prepares an academic plan each year and seeks to provide our members with the best resources possible to excel in their classes and future careers. The Academic Chair serves as the main contact in which all of our members can seek for help in any academic issues they may be facing. This is a very important part of our chapter and what Tri Delta is based upon.
The Alpha Psi chapter house provides several individual and group study rooms to provide adequate and state-of-the art facilities for our members. We also provide file cabinets with study materials donated on behalf of other sisters who have already taken the courses (old tests, study guides, tutoring zone packets, etc.).
Quiet Hours
When our sisters start to find that all the libraries are at their maximum capacity and you can’t concentrate from all the noise, Tri Delta offers a nice refuge for them. Every Sunday our chapter offers study hours during the afternoon in a specified area of the chapter house that is closed off to give our women a quiet environment.
During finals week the Panhellenic Council and TutoringZone offer free questions and answer sessions open to all Greeks. Tri Delta highly encourages their members to attend as many of these sessions as possible. We also provide special study hours during finals week as well and provide our sisters with snacks to keep them energize and on track with their studies. In many cases sisters also join together to create study guides for the classes they share and take time to study together.
Rewarding Sisters for their Academic Accomplishments
The “Smart Cookie” Jar
To help motivate our members to excel in their academics, our chapter has created the “smart cookie” jar. With this jar sisters can call each other out on their hard work each week. Sisters are asked to place another sister’s name in the jar when they see them working hard on a certain assignment or know that they did well on a test. At each chapter meeting the names are read from the “smart cookie” jar and given a special treat for their accomplishments. This helps recognize our hard working sisters and encourages other sisters to follow in their footsteps.
GPA Postings
After the completion of each semester, our chapter posts the names of the sisters who received a 3.0 and higher. The women who receive a 4.0 or higher are rewarded with a gift card. We take great pride in the academic accomplishments of our members and look to reward them in every way possible for each of their successes.
Order of Omega
The Omega Zeta chapter at the University of Florida is a Greek Honor Society that seeks to honor leaders within the Greek community who have shown dedication and success in their academics and leadership. The Omega Zeta chapter was originally founded in 1968 and re-chartered in the fall 0f 2005. From then it has had great success in building its membership and stance on campus and in the Greek community.
Tri Delta is very proud to have members of our chapter involved and recognized by this great organization. This past spring recruitment for Order of Omega accepted three more Tri Deltas into its organization. We look to having even more sisters joining this honor society each spring recruitment.
A Variety of Majors
The Alpha Psi chapter recognizes the vast diversity in the majors the University of Florida provides and embraces that diversity in our members. Among our members we have over 30 different majors represented. With this it is never hard to find another sister who has the same major and is currently in or already taken the classes that another sister is seeking help within. We encourage all of our older sisters to seek out New Members who are in the same major as them to help answer any questions they may have or direct them in the right direction with what classes/professors to take. This is just another great way in which the Alpha Psi chapter contributes to the academic success of our members. Currently our members are pursuing degrees in the following majors:
∆ Accounting
∆ Advertising
∆ Aerospace Engineering
∆ Agricultural Education and Communication
∆ Anthropology
∆ Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
∆ Architecture
∆ Art History
∆ Business Administration
∆ Communication Sciences and Disorders
∆ Criminology
∆ Dentistry
∆ Economics
∆ Education
∆ Event Management
∆ Family, Youth and Community Sciences
∆ Finance
∆ Food Science and Human Nutrition
∆ Health Science
∆ History
∆ Hospitality Management
∆ Integrative Biology
∆ Interior Design
∆ International Relations
∆ Journalism
∆ Law
∆ Management
∆ Marketing
∆ Nuclear Engineering
∆ Nursing
∆ Nutritional Sciences
∆ Political Science
∆ Pre-medicine
∆ Pre-physical Therapy
∆ Psychology
∆ Public Relations
∆ Real Estate
∆ Spanish
∆ Telecommunications
Tri Delta Scholarships
As part of its mission to assist Tri Delta and her members, the Tri Delta Foundation offers undergraduate and graduate scholarships to collegians and alumnae each year. Scholarships are awarded based on chapter and campus involvement, community service, academic achievement and financial need. Through the generous contributions of Tri Delta members and friends, the Foundation awarded $70,482 in undergraduate and graduate scholarships for the 2006-2007 academic year to 41 outstanding Tri Delta recipients.
Undergraduate Scholarships
1. Zoe Gore Perrin Scholarship
2. Luella Akins Key Scholarship
3. Sarah Shinn Marshall Scholarship
4. Martin Sister Scholarship
5. Master of Design Scholarship