Scholarship Information
Each year Phi Alpha Theta presents Best Chapter Awards to those chapters that excel in promoting the mission of the honor society on their campus and in their community. Awards consist of $250 grants to purchase books for the chapters’ campus library. Your electronic scrapbook should highlight chapter activities during the 2025-2026 academic year, including newspaper clippings, photos, fundraising events, field trips, hosting or attending regional meetings, attending the national biennial convention, and other items of special interest.
Chapters compete in six (6) divisions based on student enrollment:
Division I under 3,000 students
Division II 3,001 to 6,000 students
Division III 6,001 to 10,000 students
Division IV 10,001 to 15,000 students
Division V 15,001 to 23,000 students
Division VI over 23,000 students
TO ENTER:
The Faculty Advisor should:
1. Submit the chapter’s digital scrapbook via OneDrive. NOTE NEW SIZE LIMIT: SCRAPBOOKS SHOULD CONTAIN NO MORE THAN 50 SLIDES.
If you do not already have a OneDrive account, create a free account by visiting: https://onedrive.com
2. Include a cover letter. The cover letter should be the FIRST PAGE of your electronic scrapbook and should provide the following:
College/University name
Chapter Greek name
The names of all advisors who assisted with the chapter for the academic year
Listing of initiates submitted for the 2025-2026 academic year
Total student enrollment for placement in proper division
3. Send the scrapbook link to National Headquarters. Once you have uploaded the above into your OneDrive account, email the OneDrive “link” to info@phialphatheta.org with the subject line, “2026 Best Chapter Award Submission – [SCHOOL NAME].”
* The applicant is responsible for ensuring that all required documentation is received by the competition deadline. Incomplete applications or those submitted after the deadline or by individuals whose membership in Phi Alpha Theta cannot be verified will not be considered for the competition.
Note: In all academic work, the ideas and contributions of others must be appropriately acknowledged, and work that is presented as original must in fact BE original. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT will likely create significant breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, using an AI-content generator to produce scholarly work without proper attribution or authorization is a form of academic dishonesty. In accepting scholarly work for conference presentation, prize/award consideration or publication in the PAT newsletter or The Historian, Phi Alpha Theta expects its members to uphold the honorable standards of our Society by researching, composing and submitting their own original work. In this way, faculty and student members of Phi Alpha Theta can all share in nurturing and protecting the integrity and fairness of our Society’s intellectual enterprise. Submitting content to Phi Alpha Theta that has been generated by someone else, or was created or assisted by a computer application such as ChatGPT, will result in immediate disqualification from conference, award or publication consideration.