Marietta College’s Department of Communication recently inducted four students into the communication honorary Lambda Pi Eta.
The students who were inducted included Kelsey Carver ’20 (Bellville, Ohio), MacKenzie Marshall ’19 (Sardis, Ohio), Embrey Roberts ’21 (Marietta, Ohio) and Kayla Tomlin ’20 (Sardinia, Ohio).
Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honorary of the National Communication Association. Founded in 1985, Lambda Pi Eta became part of the National Communication Association (NCA) in 1988 and developed into the NCA's official honor society in 1995. The honorary’s goals include recognizing, fostering and rewarding outstanding scholastic achievement in communication studies and promoting professional development among communication majors.
To be eligible for membership, a student must have completed at least 60 semester hours, of which 12 must be in communication studies, have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0, have a communication studies GPA of 3.25, and be in the upper 35% of one's graduating class.