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Only students who attend accredited institutions of higher education, those who major in the visual and performing arts, those who achieve a 3.3 GPA or higher, those who desire membership with Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society, and those who complete all application requirements.

No. Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society is a national 501 c3 non-profit academic honor society for students who attend accredited collegiate institutions, major in the visual and performing arts, and achieve high academic standards (noted by receiving a 3.3 GPA). This society is a community of students and art professionals governed by bylaws, policies, and regulations.

No. Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society abides by all National Hazing rules and regulations for institutions of Higher Education. Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society utilizes a three-day intake process of engaging with its new membership candidates, chapter advisors, academic program, and academic requirements before members are inducted into the honor society. All chapter advisers must complete an anti-hazing and new membership candidate orientation process before any new chapter is chartered or a new membership candidate is inducted.

Campus student organizations recognize Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society members of an active chapter. Each active chapter is governed by elected cabinet members comprised of a President, Vice President, secretary, treasurer, and sergeant at Arms. Each cabinet utilizes Robert's Rules of Order to ensure organized meetings and effective chapter, campus, and community involvement. Each member and chapter has access to the Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society Chapter Handbook, which provides chapter events, community service activities, chapter scholarship funds, and other outlets that engage and involve its members with their institution and student body. Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society's chapters and members are charged with the intent and purpose to interact, lead, and impact their institution and the wider community.

A visual and performing arts program should charter a chapter with Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society because Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society bestows academic recognition and prestige for students who study and excel in the visual and performing arts. Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society also confers distinction for creative intelligence and high academic achievement for students who major in all visual and performing arts students. Lastly, the Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society supports the honor and recognition of its visual and performing arts students, who deserve equitable applause, acknowledgment, and institutional accolades to all other fields of higher education.

The value and benefits of joining the Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society are the prestige of receiving academic and creative honor for the accomplishments of creativity and intellectual merit within an art and academic program, the ability to engage and network with a professional community of artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers, the opportunity to establish confidence, recognition, and empowerment through inclusion, community service, and civic involvement. Members will also receive a certificate of national membership, academic honor cords, membership pin, patch, paraphernalia, and financial scholarship opportunities.

Its members! All members of the Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society contribute through their unique lens on life through culture, identity, perspective, and critical creative thinking. Because all societies utilize the bond and loyalty to their mission, service, and cause, the Psi Rho Alpha Visual and Performing Arts Honor Society stands apart by having a wider scope of inclusion for all visual and performing arts students and professional artists. This wider dynamic of having multiple avenues of creativity, intelligence, entrepreneurism, leadership, and service to the community creates an unmistakable network and experience driven by the collaboration and connective energy of intelligence and the net worth of its network.