On November 20th, four faculty members were nominated for Fall 2020 favorite professors by the Alpha Chi honor society. Drs. Hanks, Longoria, Rangarajan, Wallace, and Wright were nominated. The semester’s meeting honoring the Alpha Chi professors was conducted over Zoom.
Alpha Chi is a national honor society which promotes academic excellence and exemplary character among undergraduate college and university students and honors those who achieve such distinction. To qualify for membership, a student must be a first-time undergraduate, a junior or senior (having attained no less than 60 credit hours), have a minimum Texas State GPA of 3.50 on at least 45 semester hours at Texas State. Graduate students with a 4.0 and at least 15 hours of graduate coursework at Texas State also qualify for Alpha Chi membership. Alpha Chi is the oldest honor society at Texas State, founded in 1922. Membership in the honor society is indicated on the student’s transcript.