OSU Greek Community captures numerous regional honors

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Katy McTiernan, Oklahoma City landscape architecture senior and president of the OSU Panhellenic Council, accepted the Sutherland Award for the best Panhellenic Council in its division during the Greek leadership conference in St. Louis in February. Oklahoma State University was represented by a group of 28 students and advisers during the Greek leadership conference held in St. Louis.
(STILLWATER, Okla., Feb. 25, 2010) -- Oklahoma State University won a number of honors at the world’s largest Greek leadership conference. A total of 28 Greek students and advisers representing OSU’s Panhellenic, Interfraternity, National Pan-Hellenic and Multicultural Greek councils attended the Association of Fraternal Leadership and Values and the National Black Greek Leadership Conference this month in St. Louis.

OSU received the Gamma Sigma Alpha Award for having the highest differential between Greek and non-Greek grade point averages in the Midwest Region, according to Ival Gregory, manager of OSU’s Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.
The OSU Panhellenic Council received the Sutherland Award for the best council in its division, according to Liz Osborne, coordinator of OSU Fraternity and Sorority Affairs. This was the first time OSU has received this award.

The Panhellenic Council also received recognition in all eight possible categories in Division III: academic achievement, membership recruitment, public relations, council management, leadership and educational development, philanthropy and community service, risk reduction and management, and self-governance and judicial affairs.

IFC was recognized in five categories in the IFC Division III: leadership and educational development, membership recruitment, public relations, risk reduction and management, and self-governance and judicial affairs, and was a finalist for the Jellison Award, the award for the top achieving council in the division.

NPHC was recognized in the council management and public relations category.

As a first-time awards applicant, the Multicultural Greek Council was recognized in both categories in which it applied in the Multicultural/Unified Greek Council Division: academic achievement and philanthropy and community service.