Honor Society

Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) is the National Communication Association’s official honor society at four-year colleges and universities. As an accredited member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), Lambda Pi Eta has active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide. LPH represents what Aristotle described in The Rhetoric as three ingredients of persuasion: logos (Lambda), meaning logic; pathos (Pi), relating to emotion; and ethos (Eta), defined as character credibility and ethics. Lambda Pi Eta recognizes, fosters, and rewards outstanding scholastic achievement while stimulating interest in the communication discipline.

If you are a Junior or Senior, it’s time to think about possibly joining the New Paltz chapter of Lambda Pi Eta – the National Communication Association’s Honor’s Society (Open to all majors in the Department of Communication and Department of Digital Media and Journalism). To qualify for membership in the Alpha Alpha Delta Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, you must:

1) Be Junior or Senior within the Department of Communication or Department of Digital Media and Journalism.
2) Have an overall GPA of 3.25 AND a Major GPA of 3.5

To apply for membership in the Alpha Alpha Delta Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, please complete the 2024 Lambda Pi Eta Application and send to heizn@newpaltz.edu prior to Friday, March 15, 2024. The faculty committee will review your application and if approved, you will be given instructions how to pay the online membership fee of $52.50 which covers the graduation honor cord, lapel pin, certificate and lifetime membership in the honor society.

Make sure to click the “Open Original” button in the top right corner or download the PDF to open the fillable version. You must also fill out the form on a computer.

New members will be inducted at a 2024 ceremony on Sunday, May 5 and given an honor cord (to wear on their graduation gown), lapel pin and certificate of achievement.

If you want to know more about Lambda Pi Eta on the national level and all of the opportunities membership provides, check out their national newsletter Simply Speaking.

If you have written a top notch paper and have been encouraged to submit it to a conference or convention, then consider submitting it to the National Communication Association’s Annual Convention.  You could also consider publishing that great paper in the Lambda Pi Eta Undergraduate Student Journal.