Have you heard about National Society of Collegiate Scholars?
Meredith Collier
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: News
Case Western Reserve University is a school where academic excellence is not just something that is expected of students, but it is something that a typical Case Western student strives for. After all, CWRU is a school where 67 percent of the incoming freshman class was in the top 10 percent of their high school class. Yet no academic honor society for first- or second-year students had ever been established on campus. Sophomore Patrick Chirdon quickly recognized that void as a freshman, and put together an executive board to try and fix that problem.
"I heard about the National Society of Collegiate Scholars from a grad student, a friend of mine," said Chirdon, the president of National Society of Collegiate Scholars. "He said that it really made his experience at Johns Hopkins great…and he asked if we had anything like that at Case, and I said 'No we don't really have anything for first and second-year students as far as honors societies go,' but I think we could really use something like that."
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars was originally founded at George Washington University in order to help first- and second-year students jumpstart their academic careers and become better leaders through leadership training, exclusive scholarships, internships, and networking.
"I felt it was something we really needed here at Case," said Brian Slayton, executive vice president of NSCS. "I thought it was important to have, and it could really help the students here excel in ways that they couldn't previously."
To qualify as a member of NSCS, first- and second-year students must be in the top 20 percent of their class and have at least a 3.4 GPA. The executive board of CWRU's NSCS along with the Office of Student Affairs will identify qualifying students together, and will send out invitations in February of 2010.
Chirdon and Slayton are quick to identify all of the benefits of becoming an NSCS member. NSCS offers an international study abroad program to China as well as opportunities to study at Georgetown University. "They also offer $230,000 of scholarships each year, exclusively to members," said Chirdon. "In the summer they also [offer] leadership training at their national conference."
"I heard about the National Society of Collegiate Scholars from a grad student, a friend of mine," said Chirdon, the president of National Society of Collegiate Scholars. "He said that it really made his experience at Johns Hopkins great…and he asked if we had anything like that at Case, and I said 'No we don't really have anything for first and second-year students as far as honors societies go,' but I think we could really use something like that."
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars was originally founded at George Washington University in order to help first- and second-year students jumpstart their academic careers and become better leaders through leadership training, exclusive scholarships, internships, and networking.
"I felt it was something we really needed here at Case," said Brian Slayton, executive vice president of NSCS. "I thought it was important to have, and it could really help the students here excel in ways that they couldn't previously."
To qualify as a member of NSCS, first- and second-year students must be in the top 20 percent of their class and have at least a 3.4 GPA. The executive board of CWRU's NSCS along with the Office of Student Affairs will identify qualifying students together, and will send out invitations in February of 2010.
Chirdon and Slayton are quick to identify all of the benefits of becoming an NSCS member. NSCS offers an international study abroad program to China as well as opportunities to study at Georgetown University. "They also offer $230,000 of scholarships each year, exclusively to members," said Chirdon. "In the summer they also [offer] leadership training at their national conference."
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