Kutztown U.

Kutztown residents Erica Yurvati, Elizabeth Geisinger and Dawn Heinbach, students at Kutztown University, were recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

The honor society has chapters on more than 300 college and university campuses in North America and the Philippines.

Its mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

Yurvati was also inducted into the Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society.

Alpha Kappa Delta seeks to acknowledge and promote excellence in the scholarship in the study of sociology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual activities as will lead to improvement in the human condition.

Alpha Kappa Delta is a non-secret, democratic, international society of scholars dedicated to the ideal of Athropon Katamannthanein Diakonesin or “to investigate humanity for the purpose of service.”

Membership is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members from active chapters.

Currently, there are more than 115,000 members in Alpha Kappa Delta and over 650 chapters.