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DAC Suite 124
718-990-5400
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Faculty Moderator
Mark Terjesen
Associate Professor, Psychology
Marillac Hall SB 36F
(718) 990-5860
terjesem@stjohns.edu
"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 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
members' 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 conventional 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, inform them, and recognize their contributions
and accomplishments. The quarterly Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate
Research fosters and rewards the scholarly efforts of undergraduate
psychology students and provides a valuable learning experience by
introducing them to the publishing and review process. 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 membership records are
preserved for reference purposes. The total number of memberships
registered at the National Office is now over 500,000 lifetime
members. Many of these members have gone on to distinguished
careers in psychology." - http://www.psichi.org/About/
Organization's Mission
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, particularity in psychology, and
to advance the science of psychology.
Membership Qualifications
Undergraduate students shall have completed at least three
semesters or five quarters of the college course, have completed
nine semester hours or fourteen quarter hours of psychology courses
with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in those courses, have
registered for major or minor standing in psychology or for a
program psychological in nature which is equivalent to such
standings, rank in the top 35% of their class in general
scholarship; and have a minimum overall cumulative grade point
average of 3.0 on a 4.0.
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