First-ever national honor society for veterans p1 - Military - College News and Information - Military Times EDGE

Officials with the Adult Learner and Veteran Services Office at Colorado State University are organizing the nation’s first-ever, all-veteran honor society known as SALUTE thanks to $100,000 from the American Council on Education/Wal-Mart Success for Veterans Award Grants.

SALUTE — which stands for Service, Academics, Leadership, Unity, Tribute and Excellence — will begin accepting applications this fall from schools that want to establish chapters. Those chapters and the group’s central office will begin accepting applications from students during the spring 2010 semester, Colorado State’s Ann Ingala said. The honor society will accept active-duty service members, reservists and honorably discharged veterans who have 3.0 or higher grade-point averages and who maintain high ethical standards. The next step is to establish an advisory board to help create the society’s policies.

To learn more, visit the SALUTE Web site or e-mail Ingala at ann.ingala@colostate.edu.