The Political Science Program of the University of Guam will host the 19^th  initiation of UOG students into Pi Sigma Alpha, the U.S. national honor society for students of political science and government at 12:30 p.m. on May 6th at the Tumon Sands Hotel.

Pi Sigma Alpha is similar to the better-known Phi Beta Kappa honor society; eligible students have achieved a 3.0 grade point average in political science courses and rank in the top third of their university in general academic performance.  Founded in 1920, Pi Sigma Alpha now has 740 chapters at colleges and universities throughout the 50 States.  The University of Guam’s Pi Sigma Alpha chapter—the only chapter in an insular territory of the United States—was begun in 1996 and includes an impressive number of attorneys, college faculty, and government officials on Guam, in Palau and in the Federated States of Micronesia, as well as in the United States. 

This year, three students from Guam will be inducted into the local chapter and the national society: Thovie R. Gonzales, Edward E. Leon Guerrero, and Luisa V. Tenorio. 

UOG’s Political Science and Public Administration programs are the largest B.A. programs in their field in the region, and attract many future officials from the FSM and Palau, as well as from Guam and CNMI.  Additional questions can be addressed to Dr. Michael Stoil, Associate Professor of Political Science and Military Science, and faculty advisor of the Guam chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, at mstoil@triton.uog.edu.