Linfield University is now home to Oregon’s first chapter of Alpha Alpha Alpha (or Tri-Alpha), a national honor society for first-generation college students.
Linfield’s Tri-Alpha – Beta Pi chapter is one of more than 60 across the nation at institutions ranging from community colleges to state universities. Its first members were inducted in May.
“The demographics of our country and state continue to change with more first-generation students going to college,” said Gerardo Ochoa, associate vice president for retention and student success. “Linfield is being intentional about creating an interdependent campus culture where both first-generation and continuing-generation students can thrive.”
Students qualify for Tri-Alpha if they have earned a 3.2 GPA as an undergraduate with at least 30 credit/semester hours under their belt or a 3.5 GPA as a graduate student with nine or more graduate credits. Students’ parents, step-parents or legal guardians must not have completed a bachelor’s degree.
