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The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) is a voluntary association of national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies. It was established on December 30, 1925 by six organizations, including Alpha Omega Alpha , the Order of the Coif , Phi Beta Kappa , Phi Kappa Phi , Sigma Xi , and Tau Beta Pi .
Honor societies exist at the high school, collegiate/university, postgraduate, and professional levels, although university honor societies are by far the most prevalent. In the United States, the oldest academic society, Phi Beta Kappa , was founded as a social and literary fraternity in 1776.
Mu Alpha Theta (ΜΑΘ) is an International mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students. As of June 2015, it served over 108,000 student members in over 2,200 chapters in the United States and 20 foreign countries.
Alpha Gamma Sigma (ΑΓΣ; AGS) is the honor society of the California Community Colleges system, founded in 1926 by William T. Boyce at Fullerton College. [1] It was conceived as "an intellectual stimulus, comparable to that of Phi Beta Kappa in the higher colleges" [2] for what were then called junior colleges in California.
The California Scholarship Federation (CSF), started in 1921 by Charles F. Seymour, [1] seeks to recognize students living in the state of California who possess high standards in academics. Members of the California Scholarship Federation are eligible for a variety of tuition scholarships available at universities across the state and in ...
Phi Eta Sigma (ΦΗΣ) is an American freshman honor society.Founded at the University of Illinois on March 22, 1923, it is the oldest and largest freshman honor society and has chartered 386 chapters throughout the United States and inducted more than 1,250,000 members since its founding.
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (or simply Phi Kappa Phi or ΦΚΦ) is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to the area of study, and to promote the "unity and democracy of education".