History
In 1915, Southwestern University President Charles M. Bishop created an honor society to encourage and promote superior students. Faculty at Southwestern reached out to four other colleges and universities in Texas to create an intercollegiate honor society. On February 22, 1922, the Scholarship Societies of Texas was formed. A year later, representatives from thirteen schools met on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin and six other schools mailed in votes to establish the organization's first constitution. These nineteen schools went on to establish their own chapters of the organization including the Nolle Scholarship Society at Southwest Texas State Normal College, now known as Texas State University–San Marcos. Between 1926 and 1927 the honor society expanded to schools in Arkansas and Louisiana resulting in the name changing to the Scholarship Societies of the South. Dean Alfred H. Nolle, of whom Southwest Texas' chapter was named after, became President of the newly named organization; Nolle would later serve as the secretary-treasurer for nearly fifty years. With plans for further expansion, in 1934 the organization voted to change its name again, this time to Alpha Chi. The name was chosen such that its initials AX would come from the Greek words aletheia for truth and xapakthp for character.
At the 2007 National Convention a membership category for graduate students was created allowing them to join the society as well as college juniors and seniors. It is current headquarters is located at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas.
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