Moravian’s Tri-Alpha Chapter Inducts Second-Largest Class of First-Generation Scholars
Eighty-five students and two faculty members were sworn into Tri-Alpha, The National Honor Society for First-Generation College Students, on March 22.
On Sunday, March 22, Moravian University’s Tri-Alpha chapter inducted 85 students and two faculty members—the second largest group welcomed into The National Honor Society for First-Generation College Students.
The largest group—104 students, faculty, and staff—was honored during the inaugural induction in 2018, said Carol Traupman-Carr, herself a first-generation student, now Moravian’s vice president for institutional effectiveness and dean for academic operations.
She started Alpha Alpha Alpha on March 24, 2018, at what was then Moravian College. Tri-Alpha recognizes academic excellence of first-generation college students and has since expanded to include more than 340 chapters across the United States. The National Headquarters are still located at Moravian’s Main Street campus in Bethlehem.
To learn more about Sunday’s ceremony, view the coverage on WFMZ.