Northern Arizona University

Golden Key International Honor Society

Focus: community service, academic excellence
# of members: 300
Membership $:  $75
Average hours/week to participate: 3
Meetings: Wednesdays at 7:30PM - Oak Creek Room
Website: http://www.goldenkey.nau.edu/
Contact/President:  Rachel Gardner         rrg45@nau.edu
Advisor: Georgia Totress     Georgia.Totress@nau.edu

Mission: To enable members to realize their potential by connecting individual achievement with service and lifelong opportunity. Values: Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Respect, Diversity, Excellence, Engagement. Golden Key is an academic honour society which recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement and excellence among college and university students from all academic disciplines. The Society awards its members over $400,000 annually through 17 different scholarship and award programs.

Community service projects:  Pine Forest's Winterfaire, Relay for Life, Golden Key Green Social (annual trash pickup).

Events Organized: Green Social, Icre Cream socials and Potlucks

Why join? Members are connected to exclusive career opportunities and assistance through Golden Key's partnerships with major corporations and graduate programs. The Society provides campus and community service opportunities enabling personal growth and leadership development as well as collaborating with university faculty and administrators to develop and maintain high standards of education.  Golden Key believes in rewarding its members for their academic, leadership and service excellence. To this end, the organization maintains 18 different scholarship programs available solely to its members. The Society rewards more than 700 members annually with exclusive scholarships exceeding US$400,000.

Interested in joining? Membership is by invitation only to sophomores, juniors, seniors and grads with a GPA of 3.6 or higher.

Additional Information: Check out the Internation Website: htto://goldenkey.org/GKIHS