A Tri-Alpha chapter promotes academic excellence and provides opportunities for growth, leadership development, and community service for first-generation college students.
Our Mission
TRI-ALPHA
Tri-Alpha First-Generation Honor Society recognizes the academic achievements of First-Generation College Students.
UMKC students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to apply to join Tri-Alpha to support and advocate for
First-Generation College Students.
The lifetime membership is achieved through the one-time national induction fee of $15 for students and $25 per faculty/staff/alumni inductee.
Benefits:
- A certificate and pin signifying membership
- An outward recognition of personal accomplishment and an incentive for continued high scholarship
- Opportunities to meet other first-gen students from all academic disciplines
- Be a part of a group that promotes academic excellence and creates a supportive environment for First-Generation College Students
- Identifies you to employers, professionals, and graduate schools as a person of superior academic ability and commitment
- Mentoring opportunities with other First-Generation College Students
- Mentorship from faculty, staff, and alumni who were First-Generation College Students
- Leadership opportunities in the local chapter
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Membership types
Undergraduate
Graduate
Staff faculty
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First-Generation Honor Society
Qualifications:
Has achieved an overall undergraduate GPA of at least a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale
Has earned at least 30 credit hours towards a baccalaureate degree
Meet UMKC’s definition of First Generation College Student. (Neither of the student's parents nor legal guardians has completed a bachelor's degree in the United States)
Faculty and staff qualify for induction by meeting the definition of a First Generation College Student listed above at the time they completed their bachelor's degree. Faculty and staff must be willing to serve as mentors for first-gen students.
Graduate students who are first-gen students can be admitted if they have completed the equivalent of at least one term of study (9 or more credits) and have a GPA in their graduate program of at least 3.5
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First-Generation Honor Society
Benefits Include:
A certificate & pin signifying membership
Recognition of personal accomplishment & an incentive for continued high scholarship
Opportunity to meet other first-gen students from all academic disciplines
Promote academic excellence & create a supportive environment for first-gen students
Receive mentoring from more senior first-gen students, faculty/staff & alumni who were First-Generation College Students
Identifies you to employers, professionals, and graduate schools as a person of superior academic ability and commitment
Local chapter leadership opportunities
Ability to mentor younger first-gen students
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First-Generation Honor Society
Alpha Alpha Alpha (Tri-Alpha)
First-Generation Honor Society recognizes the academic achievements of First-Generation College Students.
UMKC students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to join Tri-Alpha to support and advocate for first-generation college students.
Tri-Alpha exists as a not- for profit (501(c)3) organization for the purposes of supporting the activities of the honor society.