For further information about Sigma Tau Delta at Geneseo, please contact the incoming student president, Georgia VanDerwater, or the faculty sponsor, Dr. Gillian Paku. Geneseo’s Sigma Tau Delta chapter is active all year new members are inducted each spring, but most activities are open to all members and friends of Geneseo English. It worked surprisingly well, but we look forward to a return to an in-person convention in next year’s location, Atlanta, GA. ![]() 2018 Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Convention. The format of roundtables only, coordinated via Zoom from Colorado, was a function of the COVID-19 pandemic. Attending the Sigma Tau Delta convention was an amazing opportunity to meet others. The panelists and audience members agreed that more than finding one answer to this complicated issue, diversifying Humanities requirements should be addressed through a variety of methods. The Board was formally installed during National Convention, on June 23, 2018. A lively question and answer session held after the presentation was attended by students and faculty from around the country and was an illuminating conversation about the benefits and challenges of these efforts, and how they are addressed at our peer institutions. Sigma Delta Tau (SDT), is proud to announce the new national Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 biennium. Works selected for publication are also eligible for overall awards and monetary prizes. Members may submit papers for publication in The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle and The Sigma Tau Delta Review. ![]() Black Humanities was presented as one innovative approach, and the panelists suggested other texts or productive pairings of texts that would meet the goal. This scholarship is available to one Sigma Tau Delta member per year through a partnership with TFAS and the Association of College Honor Societies. We hope next year’s members of Sigma Tau Delta will follow these students’ impressive lead and present their work at the convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in March 2018. They touched on efforts - including their recent, popular student petition - to alter the Humanities requirement at Geneseo, with the goal of making it a course that includes perspectives and representation of groups outside of the predominant white male norm. Their presentation discussed the overt lack of representation in most canonical works considered to be a part of the “great books” tradition, a list that Geneseo Humanities I and II courses are required to follow. Motto During the more than a half a century of the society’s existence, more than 35,000 have acceded to Sigma Tau Delta’s cherished motto: Sincerity, Truth, Design, which bespeaks of purposeful dedication in life to the attainment of excellence. ![]() Nicole Callahan, Jordyn Costello, Sara Devoe, Isabella Higgins, and Emma Mandella presented a panel titled “Change it Up: Diversifying Humanities” over Zoom. On Saturday, March 27, five members of the Geneseo chapter of Sigma Tau Delta participated in the annual convention available to all members of the English honor society.
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