Hollins University campus
ROANOKE, Va. (Hollins University) — Omicron Delta Kappa or OK, the National Leadership Honor Society, is welcoming 34 Hollins University students as new members for 2024. They include Nina Lauren Valdisimo, a business major, from Saipan.
Founded in 1914, OK is the nation’s oldest leadership honor society, featuring more than 300 circles of record at colleges and universities across the United States. Less than 5% of eligible sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students are selected for membership. Undergraduates must be in the top 35% of their class, and graduate students must meet stringent criteria set by each circle.
OK encourages cooperation among members across the five pillars of leadership celebrated by the society: academics and research, athletics, service to campus and community, communications, and creative and performing arts. The society also champions its leadership values of collaboration, inclusivity, integrity, scholarship, and service.
Hollins University is dedicated to academic excellence, creativity, belonging, and preparing students for lives of purpose. Hollins provides an outstanding and academically rigorous undergraduate liberal arts education for women and entrepreneurial and innovative graduate programs for all in a gender-inclusive environment.
Hollins is an independent liberal arts university offering undergraduate liberal arts education for women and selected graduate programs for women and men. The university features 29 undergraduate majors and 15 coed graduate and certificate programs. Hollins is also home to a nationally recognized creative writing program; the innovative Batten Leadership Institute; and the Rutherfoord Center for Experiential Learning, which encompasses study abroad at an array of destinations around the world, domestic and international internships with top tier businesses and organizations, and undergraduate research opportunities in a range of fields.
