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EDUCATION HONORARY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD |
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July 25, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Grove City College chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), an international education honorary, has won an Achieving Chapter Excellence (ACE) Award due to its demonstrated excellence and dedication to the ideals of the international organization. The award, established in 1995, is presented only once every two years.
The College education honorary has won the ACE Award five consecutive times, including 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and now 2011. There are only five other chapters total, out of more than 600 active chapters, that have won the award five consecutive times since the award’s inaugural year.
The College chapter will be recognized during the first general session of the organization’s convocation ceremony in November in Indianapolis, Ind. A KDP representative will present the award to two College education honorary representatives. After the ceremony, students of the College will also have the opportunity to share their award-winning ideas, including the chapter’s professional development programming and service projects, during the Passport to Chapter Success Poster Session viewing and presentations.
Notable programs and service projects implemented by the College chapter include the fall and spring “Awarding Awesome Authors Contest,” recognizing the exceptional writing capabilities of kindergarteners through eighth graders; the “Literacy Alive!” project grant, providing a monetary award as part of the KDP’s signature national service initiative; and the “Books for Emily” project, collecting more than 280 books to assist the honorary’s former president Emily Greider ’10 and the school in which she currently teaches, Global Leadership Academy, a Philadelphia charter school that was damaged by a fire in January.
The College chapter of KDP, through receiving the ACE Award, will automatically be considered for the Ace of the ACE Award, which will be presented in November. The award, instituted in 2001-03 biennium, recognizes one chapter that grew and increased activity each year, and is a positive force in the community; provided unique programming and grew each year; raised more than $7,500 for local charities; and contains students and officers that are a driving force behind the chapter’s success.
KDP, founded in 1911 at the University of Illinois, seeks to sustain an honored community of diverse educators by promoting excellence and advancing scholarship, leadership and service. Pioneering from its origin by including women as well as men, KDP grew from a local chapter to an international organization, which now comprises 582 chapters and more than 45,000 members.
For more information about Kappa Delta Pi, visit www.kdp.org.
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