We have invited students who have shown significant academic prowess in their first year at Xavier be become inducted into one of the most prestigious honor societies in the nation: Alpha Lambda Delta. Alpha Lambda Delta was founded in 1924 by the Dean of Women, Maria Leonard, at the University of Illinois to recognize academic excellence among freshmen women. One year before, Dean Thomas Arkle Clark had founded Phi Eta Sigma, an honor society to recognize academic excellence among freshmen men. Both groups operated as single sex organizations until the mid-70s when they both became coeducational in response to Title IX.
Xavier's campus has much to gain from organizing the academically advanced students to be recognized on campus as supporting and promoting good study habits, encouraging the use of academic support serves and the continued lifting academic excellence in the First Year Experience.
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