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DELTA ETA PI (ΔΗΠ)
Dance Honor Society |
Photo by Diane Bedford
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About Delta Eta Pi
Delta Eta Pi is the National Dance Society's honor society. Its purpose is to provide an organization dedicated to the advancement of dance and dance education in secondary schools, studios, colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning that offer programs in dance instruction in one or more genres; and to recognize and encourage academic excellence, dance technique, choreography, scholarship, and service to the school and community. |
Why Delta Eta Pi?
Creative thinking is the core of 21st century learning; and, as a dance educator, you are a primary creative officer in your school. Sponsoring a chapter of the National Dance Society dance honor society magnifies the innovation, skills, and scholarship that your dance program brings to your school and community.
Having a dance honor society at your school or studio raises the profile and stature of your dance program, making both your institution and community aware of the activities and success of your students, and increases the visibility of dance as a creative, academic subject. Opportunities for national recognition, scholarships, publication, and connectivity to other outstanding dance students, as well as dance teachers and professionals, are available to your students as members of Delta Eta Pi.
Creative thinking is the core of 21st century learning; and, as a dance educator, you are a primary creative officer in your school. Sponsoring a chapter of the National Dance Society dance honor society magnifies the innovation, skills, and scholarship that your dance program brings to your school and community.
Having a dance honor society at your school or studio raises the profile and stature of your dance program, making both your institution and community aware of the activities and success of your students, and increases the visibility of dance as a creative, academic subject. Opportunities for national recognition, scholarships, publication, and connectivity to other outstanding dance students, as well as dance teachers and professionals, are available to your students as members of Delta Eta Pi.
Who Is Eligible?
Membership in Delta Eta Pi (ΔΗΠ) is open to students who are active in secondary school (6th to 12th grades), studios, collegiate dance programs - dance majors & minors as well as serious dance students who have participated in an accredited dance or arts-related class at the host institution for at least one semester, graduate students, and to faculty in the discipline.
Potential members must be considered by the faculty advisor or committee of the chapter to be outstanding in scholarly achievement and dance studies and must have maintained a GPA of 3.2 or higher, or equivalent. A graduate student must have no less than two thirds of his/her graduate credit hours as A, or the equivalent, when letter grades are nonexistent. Six credits in dance classes, or the equivalent, must be completed before a student may be eligible for induction.