Teacher Education Honors Excellence

Last night, The Teacher Education Program inducted 23 graduate and undergraduate students into the Sigma Gamma Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education. KDP was founded in 1911 by leading thinkers in education at the University of Illinois. Since that time, it has grown to an international organization of over 60,000 members. Acceptance into KDP is based upon the criteria of academic excellence (GPA of 3.6 or higher) and the recommendation of three teacher education faculty members.

Dean Dillashaw began last night’s ceremony in Belk Pavilion by lighting the white Kappa Candle acknowledging the organization’s commitment to Elon’s motto Numen Lumen.  Dr. Glenda Crawford, Dr. Terry Tomasek, Dr. Mary Knight-McKenna, and Dr. Rich Mihans led the students in affirming the society’s ideals of Fidelity to Humanity, Fidelity to Science, Fidelity to Service, and Fidelity to Toil.

Dr. Stephen Byrd, faculty sponsor, offered a charge to the inductees based on the theme “Embrace your calling; Honor your commitments”. Dr. Judith Howard, chair of the department of education, concluded the ceremony with the society motto:

“So to teach that our words inspire a will to learn; so to serve that each day may enhance the growth of exploring minds; so to live that we may guide young and old to know the truth and love the right. To the fulfillment of these objectives we pledge our efforts.”

The teacher education faculty is proud of the following undergraduate and graduate inductees:

Graduate students: