:: ABOUT PSI CHI at PACE UNIVERSITY ::

Pace University's Psi Chi Chapter has been active since its inception in 1969. Since that time, the chapter has established itself as one of the top organizations on campus, with dedicated members from all walks of life. We pride themselves on being role models in the Pace community as well as in our local communities. Our chapter’s commitment to the needs of students in psychology and human relations has expanded the scope of what we are capable of accomplishing as a chapter. Every event or activity is significant to us and contributes to our educational and personal growth. In one semester the chapter raised almost $800 using innovative fundraisers, such as the Pace Leaders Auction and a Halloween Miniature Pumpkin Sale, and by entering and winning a number of Student Life contests, e.g., Best Activities Fair table. These funds are used for organizational development.
The chapter also annually sponsors an Undergraduate Psychology Conference, which is a student-led and Psi Chi–recognized event. This conference is open to participants from other colleges and universities and also has been field in conjunction with Pace’s Black Psychology Conference.

:: Purpose Statement ::

Psi Chi is a national honor society whose purpose shall be to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship of the individual members in all fields, particularly in psychology, and to advance the science of psychology.

:: Mission Statement ::

The mission of Psi Chi is to produce a well-educated, ethical and socially responsible member committed to contributing to the science and profession of psychology and to society in general.

Subends for accomplishing above mission:

A. Advance science and the profession of psychology
B. Promote an educational experience consistent with the mission
C. Promote ethical and socially responsible members and leaders
D. Define and establish an organizational structure that promotes our mission
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Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications. Psi Chi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society (APS). Psi Chi's sister honor society is Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology for community and junior colleges.

Psi Chi functions as a federation of chapters located at more than 1,000 senior colleges and universities in the USA. The National Office is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A National Council, composed of psychologists who are Psi Chi members and who are elected by the chapters, guides the affairs of the organization and sets policy with the approval of the chapters.

Psi Chi serves two major goals--one immediate and visibly rewarding to the individual member, the other slower and more difficult to accomplish, but offering greater rewards in the long run. The first of these is the Society's obligation to provide academic recognition to its inductees by the mere fact of membership. The second goal is the obligation of each of the Society's local chapters to nurture the spark of that accomplishment by offering a climate congenial to its creative development. For example, the chapters make active attempts to nourish and stimulate professional growth through programs designed to augment and enhance the regular curriculum and to provide practical experience and fellowship through affiliation with the chapter. In addition, the national organization provides programs to help achieve these goals, including national and regional conventions held annually in conjunction with the psychological associations, research award competitions, and certificate recognition programs.

The Society publishes a quarterly magazine, Eye on Psi Chi, which helps to unite the members as well as to inform and recognize their contributions and accomplishments, as well as the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, a national, fully reviewed, quarterly journal dedicated to the publication of undergraduate student research.

Students become members by joining the chapter at the school where they are enrolled. Psi Chi chapters are operated by student officers and faculty advisors. Together they select and induct the members and carry out the goals of the Society. All chapters register their inductees at the National Office, where the membership records are preserved for reference purposes. The total number of memberships preserved at the national office during the first 73 years is over 420,000. Many of these members have gone on to distinguished careers in psychology. Several persons have been bestowed the special recognition and title of "Distinguished Member" by the Psi Chi National Council.

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Source

Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology.(2000). What is Psi Chi?
http://www.psichi.org/content/about_psichi/what_is_psichi.asp
Retrieved August 28, 2002 from source.

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