Wofford College

Thirty Wofford College students and recent graduates were inducted as members-in-course during the college's Phi Beta Kappa ceremony on Thursday, April 18, in Leonard Auditorium, Main Building. Students are normally considered for election to Wofford's Phi Beta Kappa chapter after they have earned 100 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.6. Election is not automatic. Resident members of the chapter consider scholarship, character, intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, diversity of academic interests and pursuits, and other factors in the election process. The chapter may elect only 10% of a graduating class in any one year.

Thirty Wofford College students and recent graduates were inducted as members-in-course during the college's Phi Beta Kappa ceremony on Thursday, April 18, in Leonard Auditorium, Main Building. Students are normally considered for election to Wofford's Phi Beta Kappa chapter after they have earned 100 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.6. Election is not automatic. Resident members of the chapter consider scholarship, character, intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, diversity of academic interests and pursuits, and other factors in the election process. The chapter may elect only 10% of a graduating class in any one year.

Thirty Wofford College students and recent graduates were initiated as members-in-course during the college's Phi Beta Kappa ceremony on Thursday, April 18, in Leonard Auditorium, Main Building. Students are normally considered for election to Wofford's Phi Beta Kappa chapter after they have earned 100 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.6. Election is not automatic. Resident members of the chapter consider scholarship, character, intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, diversity of academic interests and pursuits, and other factors in the election process. The chapter may elect only 10% of a graduating class in any one year.

Laila Villeda '26 is accustomed to being a trailblazer in her family. Not only is Villeda the first in her family to go to college. The finance major from Cumming, Georgia, also is the first to graduate from high school. "For my parents to not even have finished middle school, me going to a four-year college is unheard of," says Villeda. "I am so happy to be paving the way for my family, and to be able to help others like me." Villeda and 25 other first-generation students were the first inductees into Wofford's Theta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Alpha Alpha on Nov. 8. Students with a minimum 3.2 GPA and at least 30 earned credit hours are eligible for induction into the honor society for first-gen students. Tri-Alpha was founded in 2018 at Moravian University.

Phi Beta Kappa inductions were held May 19, 2023. Phi Beta Kappa is Wofford's highest academic honor.

Thirteen Wofford College students were inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish Honors Society, on Nov. 6.

Several Wofford students were inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society in May 2019.

Wofford College initiated 37 students into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Tuesday, May 8.

Wofford College initiated 37 students from the Class of 2019 into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Tuesday, May 7.

Three Wofford College students were inducted into Pi Delta Phi, the national French Honors Society, on May 4, 2017.

Eighteen Wofford College students were inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish Honors Society, in the spring of 2017.

Ten Wofford College students were inducted in Delta Phi Alpha, the German honors society, on May 15, 2017.

Seventeen Wofford College students were inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, on May 10, 2017.

Fifteen Wofford College students were inducted into Beta Beta Beta, the biology honors society, in the spring of 2017.

Wofford College initiated 37 students and recent graduates into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Tuesday, May 9.

Wofford students inducted into Beta Beta Beta honor society on Wednesday, Oct. 18.

Wofford College initiated 36 students and recent graduates into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Tuesday, May 3.

Wofford College initiated 35 students and recent graduates into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 7.

Four Wofford students were inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon math honor society on March 16, 2015.

Wofford College initiated 34 students and recent graduates into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 1, in Leonard Auditorium.

Twelve Wofford students were inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, Wofford's chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, on May 7, 2013.

Nineteen students and three faculty were inducted into the national mathematics honor society, Pi Mu Epsilon, during an inaugural ceremony on April 28, 2013.

Wofford College initiated 35 students and recent graduates into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony held on Tuesday, April 20, in Leonard Auditorium.

The following area students were inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, at Wofford on April 23, 2012:

The following area students were accorded Wofford College's highest academic honor on Thursday, April 26, when they were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa:

Alpha Epsilon Delta Honor Society inducted several Wofford students during installation ceremonies held on Nov. 2, 2011. Alpha Epsilon Delta is the National Health Preprofessional Honor Society dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of excellence in preprofessional health scholarship, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary, and others. Area students inducted were:

Wofford College is now the home of the South Carolina Epsilon chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, an honor fraternity for qualified students planning careers in medicine, dentistry or other health care professions. The chartering ceremony was held in the college's Roger Milliken Science Center on Sunday, Feb. 28. Dr. J. Gilbert Foster, a 1969 Wofford graduate and chief of urology at the Malizia Clinic in Atlanta, was the speaker. Area students initiated were: