Talk:Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

I think this article should be accepted but I am unclear how to do that. Let me know on my talk page if you you can tell me. Bduke (talk) 07:33, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Honor versus Recognition
While any group of PhD recipients and PhD track scholars is noteworthy, this organization is technically a Recognition society, rather than an honor society. Baird's Manual for many years tracked these two types of societies separately. Honor societies recognize merit-based scholastic achievement within their purview, either at the undergraduate or graduate level, or to acknowledge post-grads and/or those who have met achievement in their fields.

Traditional honor societies limit membership to those who meet a grade point requirement at the undergraduate or graduate school level where students are ranked. Further, they reach out to students who merit consideration in a modern form of tapping. Conversely, Recognition societies allow prospective members to request membership as is the practice here with the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Bouchet is a new organization, highlighting minority scholars, some of whom may have been tapped by the older honor societies and some who did not receive such distinction. A scholar may therefore be both a member of, say, Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi as well as gain recognition by the Bouchet.

Following Baird's model in its most recent editions, on Wikipedia the Fraternity and Sorority Project group has combined our list organization of these two types under the single banner of Honor societies. However the distinction between the two should be noted. Jax MN (talk) 21:13, 26 April 2024 (UTC)