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Mortar Board, as an honor society, is an association of individuals selected for distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, which recognizing the advantages of a national union of senior honor societies, has formed a national honor society, whose purpose shall be to facilitate cooperation among those societies, to contribute to the self-awareness of its members, to promote equal opportunities among all peoples, to emphasize the advancement of the status of women, to support the ideals of the college or university, to advance a spirit of scholarship, to recognize and encourage leadership, to provide service, and to establish the opportunity for a meaningful exchange of ideas as individuals and as a group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mortar Board, a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service, provides opportunities for continued leadership development, promotes service to colleges and universities and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community.\u00a0<\/span>(Adopted July 1994)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pi Sigma Alpha, letters that correspond to three Greek words representing the ideals of Mortar Board: scholarship, service and leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purpose: Mortar Board, as an honor society, is an association of individuals selected for distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, which recognizing the advantages of a national union of senior honor societies, has formed a national honor society, whose purpose shall be to facilitate cooperation among those societies, to contribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-left-sidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/honorscollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mission:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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