Beginning in 2013, when then National President Mike Christakis (Alfred University, 1998) started the practice, our Society has tried to predict the winner of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship by using our own special O∆K methodology: • If one team’s school has a circle and the other school’s team does not, the school with the…
What is leadership? This question is often asked during webinars, classes, and within organizations. Yet, each person has their own unique answer. In my experience growing up as a Quaker (Religious Society of Friends), leadership was focused on cooperation and consensus. Leaders within the Quaker community are regarded as equals, and their role as leaders…
Young Harris, Ga. (Feb. 17, 2023) – Young Harris College’s petition to establish a circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, was approved recently by the organization’s Board of Trustees. Tara S. Singer, O∆K’s president and chief executive officer, will preside at the chartering ceremony scheduled for Mar. 16, 2023. Sandra…
Dear Member, As this semester begins, I am concluding my first three-year term as Omicron Delta Kappa’s inaugural National Diversity Officer. While there is always more work to be done, I am pleased with the progress that the Society has made since my position was established in 2020. In 2019, the Boulé Foundation provided a…
The start of each spring term always brings hope that our campuses will warm up and that the plants and minds on campus will blossom once whatever physical or mental thaws take place. My colleagues and I on the Omicron Delta Kappa Society and Educational Foundation Board of Trustees hope your 2023 will be a…
Graduating from college and entering the “real world” is often a period of identity shift that mirrors the milestones that a college freshman experiences. You’re on your own in an entirely new way, and you will be challenged in a strange, new environment that sometimes makes you feel like a teenager in an adult costume….
Lexington, Va. (December 22, 2022) – The Omicron Delta Kappa Society and Educational Foundation Board of Trustees selected Robert M. Gates (William & Mary, 2015) as the 2022 recipient of the Laurel Crowned Circle Award. First presented in 1980, the Laurel Crowned Circle Award is the highest individual honor awarded by Omicron Delta Kappa (O∆K)….
