Ten Huskers were inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha during a ceremony held on May 6 on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. Kappa Tau Alpha is a collegiate honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication.
Membership must be earned through academic excellence. To be inducted, undergraduate students must have completed at least five semesters of work toward a degree in a journalism or mass communications program, must have completed at least nine semester hours in professional skills courses, must have a GPA of 3.0 or greater and must rank in the top ten percent of their class.
The spring 2022 undergraduate inductees are:
|
Name |
Major |
Year |
Hometown |
|
Hugh Anderson |
Sports Media and Communication |
Senior |
Lincoln, NE |
|
Sarah Betts |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Senior |
Omaha, NE |
|
Audrey Hertel |
Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations |
Senior |
Elkhorn, NE |
|
Peter Krenzer |
Sports Media and Communication |
Senior |
Omaha, NE |
|
Grace Malone |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Senior |
Lincoln, NE |
|
Reagen Schulenberg |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Senior |
Lincoln, NE |
|
Luna Stephens |
Journalism |
Senior |
Lawrence, KS |
|
Kate Wightman |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Senior |
Lexington, NE |
Graduate students must rank in the top ten percent of those students who have completed the equivalent of two semesters of full-time course work in their degree program.
The spring 2022 graduate inductees are:
|
Name |
Master Degree Specialization |
Hometown |
|
Whitney Koehn |
Integrated Media Communications |
Elmwood, NE |
|
September Symens-Lacroix |
Integrated Media Communications |
Omaha, NE |
Kappa Tau Alpha is the seventh oldest national honor society, founded in 1910 at the University of Missouri. The society consists of 99 chapters and has inducted around 75,000 students since its founding.
