The Lee University chapter of Alpha Chi, an upperclassmen honor society, will host its annual Academic Showcase on Monday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. in the Rose Lecture Hall, located in the Helen DeVos College of Education.
“The Academic Showcase is a fine way to highlight the excellent intellectual talent of our students,” said Dr.
John Wykoff, assistant professor of music at Lee. “The bar seems to be set higher every year.”
Each year, students from across Lee’s campus submit academic and artistic work to be considered for the showcase. Students then present their work in front of their peers and a panel of faculty judges. The winners are chosen based on a combination of audience votes and judge choices.
While the judges deliberate, the audience will be treated to an address from this year’s guest speaker Lee president Paul Conn.
"Academic Showcase is one of the events that I most look forward to each year,” said Dr. Thomas Pope, assistant professor of political science at Lee. “It is a chance to celebrate excellence across the diverse disciplines of the university and to finally see the fruits of the labor that students have worked so hard to cultivate.”
Cash prizes will be awarded for first and second place presenters in both categories, academic and artistic.
Alpha Chi is a coeducational academic honor society which accepts the top 10 percent of juniors, seniors, and graduate students at those colleges and universities that have a chapter. The society was established in 1922 in order to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honor those who achieve such distinction.
The event is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public.
For more information about Alpha Chi, visit www.alphachihonor.org.
For more information about the Academic Showcase, contact jwykoff@leeuniversity.edu or tpope@leeuniversity.edu.