My S is being inducted into the UMD chapter of Phi Kappa Phi this week. Does anyone know if parents usually attend the ceremony? It is such an honor to be recognized for being in the top 7.5% of juniors.
Congratulations! That’s awesome! Did they send an invite to parents? If yes, I would absolutely attend! Invite could be via email to your son, so check with him. If no formal invite, not much u can do.
Thank you. We did not receive a formal invite, but I am wondering if parents attend anyway. I just don’t want to miss i yet we don’t want to make the trip and be the only parents in attendance.
Well, if there was no invite (email or formal), I would say not to go …don’t be surprised that parents are not included. While it’s an academic honor society, it’s still a “fraternity” and they may have some “rituals” (NOT hazing by any stretch of the imagination) that are for members only. Did your son have any requirements to fulfill to be eligible for induction? My son was inducted into Tau Beta Pi (engineering honors) and they had certain things they needed to do to be approved/eligible for induction…and parents were NOT invited…
That is in contrast to Primannum which was a freshman honor society when they did make a big deal of inviting parents…we had to rsvp and there was a big ceremony, and lots of parents came!
So, my guess is that if they wanted parents, you would know by now. I know, it’s frustrating…but u will still get to see him wear honor cords at graduation that indicate his membership and the commencement program will notate his membership.
Now, of course, there’s nothing stopping u from visiting that weekend to take him out for a big celebratory dinner out in DC kinda thing…unless he’s got too much work to do because it’s time to start studying for finals…
This may be too late to help, @6Speed , but just FYI we attended the Phi Kappa Phi ceremony last year (2017) – there were plenty of parents there and room for plenty more (it was at Memorial Chapel). I’m pretty sure the email to the students said parents were welcome, but we didn’t get an email ourselves.