P G M

PI GAMMA MU - International Honors Society in Social Sciences

The main purpose of this honors society is to recognize excellence in academic achievement, promote the study of the social sciences, and offer a forum for exchanging ideas in political and social matters.

The PGM International Board of Trustees charted in 1987 the Epsilon Chapter of Maryland at Coppin. Founded in 1929, this honors society has more than 170,000 student and faculty members in 160 active chapters, both in the USA and around the world. This is a society that encourages excellence in social sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As an honor society PGM gives recognition to those students who show scholarship, service, and through their actions promote the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, economics, international relations, criminal justice, and social psychology.

When a junior or a senior student has at least 26 credit hours in the core areas mentioned above and a grade point average of 3.4 or above, the student is invited to join the Epsilon chapter. In addition, an eligible student should be in the top 35% of the class. Coppin State University has inducted more than eighty students in this prestigious society.

This year the Epsilon chapter at Coppin received from the International Board of Trustees The Roll of Merit award. This award has been given only to five other colleges and universities indicative of their activities and effectiveness on their campuses.

As members of PGM, students receive the International Social Science Review, the opportunity to apply for scholarships, and the chance to present their research papers in national or regional conferences.

A K D

A LPHA KAPPA DELTA - International Sociological Honors Society

This honors society has its beginnings in the fall of 1920 in the department of sociology, University of Southern California, when the department chairman, Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, proposed to the students the formation of a society in which the students might become acquainted with each other’s research projects and where they might meet informally to exchange ideas in social matters.

The main purpose of this honors society is to promote in students the interest in sociology, research in social problems, and activities leading to human welfare.

Candidates, to be eligible for membership, must be declared sociology majors, must be at least juniors, must have accumulated the equivalent of an overall grade point average of 3.0, and must maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average in all sociology courses.

As members of AKD, students receive a subscription to the journal Sociological Inquiry, and are entitled to attend professional regional and national conferences.

There are more than 450 AKD chapters in the United States and around the world.

Our application to establish an AKD chapter at Coppin State University has been approved by the National Society (January, 2001).

We are known as Lambda of Maryland.