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Delta Mu Delta is an Honor Society in Business Administration.
Membership requirements have been established for both
undergraduate and graduate students and the requirements fall within
the guidelines of the Association of College Honor Societies, ACHS.
Local chapters may choose to require higher GPA standards.
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The organization is governed by the National Chapter, which is
represented by the National Executive Council, composed of national
officers and regional representatives. DMD regions conform to
ACBSP geographical regions. Each region has a DMD representative
who functions as the liaison between the Society and its local chapters.
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♦ To maintain their active status, local chapters must annually:
Hold elections, electing a full complement of officers:
Hold at least two meetings - one may be concurrent with inductions;
Hold an induction ceremony;
And fulfill all obligations to the National Chapter.
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Within those parameters, a local chapter may choose to be service or
activity orientated, or simply function as a recognition honor society
- depending on the needs and demographics of their student membership.
Your chapter has the opportunity to identify and create the type,
direction and focus of the chapter to meet the identified needs of your
student population.
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Because DMD has nearly 200 active chapters and over 130,000 members and
alumni in nearly every state, territory and most countries throughout
the world, it has an international presence. DMD chapters have
been formed within fully accredited private and public colleges and
universities throughout the United States and is about to include those
in Region 8, International. DMD has been a member of ACHS since
1963 - an organization of nearly 70 international honor societies whose
objective is to maintain high standards for the recognition and
promotion of academic excellence in higher education.
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The variety and diversity of our DMD chapters would suggest that the
local chapters have been and are successful in meeting the needs of the
various student groups which comprise our Society membership.
While many schools conduct online courses, none are exclusively
so. We have chapters conducting online meetings and online
inductions. Our Central Office has many online aspects which can
and are being utilized by our chapters, members and friends.
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If your institution has created strategic plans/missions/goals, it is
our belief that your chapter has a window of opportunity to identify
and implement the identified focus and student needs you have defined
for your institution within the broad parameters of the DMD umbrella
organization. Each local chapter has a great deal of freedom and
flexibility to determine their unique activities and emphasis. Please
remember the many benefits that DMD receive from their lifetime
membership: recognition for academic excellence; national scholarships
available to your entire body of business students; local chapter and
faculty awards presented by the national organization; fulfillment of
enhanced entrance requirements for federal service; and, the
opportunity to join an elite group of honor society members.
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The student always wins in this situation, but they must have the
opportunity that only membership in DMD provides. At their own chapter
installation, the President of Cardinal Stritch said it very well: "We
are doing this for our students. They deserve an organization to
recognize their superior academic performance."
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♦ Excerpted from a letter from Dr. Terry Mendenhall to Dr. Marie Gould, current Faculty Adviser at Pierce College.
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