Merrideth Maley Receives Phi Kappa Phi Presidential Scholar Award

2015 Oct 22

Merrideth Maley, a senior business administration major in the School of Business at Ithaca College, is the recipient of the Raquib Zaman Presidential Scholar.

Maley is Vice President of Beta Alpha Psi, Co-Chair of the Ithaca College Senior Week Committee, and treasurer of the Ithaca College Women's Club Rugby team. She is also a member of the Ithaca College chapter of the American Marketing Association, Women in Business Network, and is a recent recipient of the Peggy Ryan Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership.

The Raquib Zaman Presidential Scholar Award is given to a current student at Ithaca College who is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Its chapters are on more than 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Each year, approximately 30,000 members are initiated.

The first requirement of eligibility for a Presidential Scholar Award is that the student be a member of Phi Kappa Phi, which means they were in the top 5 percent academically of their junior class. The student must THEN be selected by a faculty member or administrator for nomination and the award recipients are then chosen from the pool of nominations by Ithaca College's Phi Kappa Phi Executive Committee. The criteria used by this committee include grade point average, academic awards and honors, breadth of study, achievement in outside activities, and service to the profession and/or the community.