History

Learn a little about Tri-Alpha’s history of helping first-generation college students and how that got started at The Ohio State University!

March 24
Alpha Alpha Alpha is born
Alpha Alpha Alpha is born

The Alpha Alpha Alpha National Honor Society was founded on the campus of Moravian College (now Moravian University) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on March 24, 2018, with an induction ceremony which contained more than 100 undergraduate student, staff, faculty, alumni, and honorary inductees.

August 1
Buckeyes First Student Organization is founded at Ohio State
Buckeyes First Student Organization is founded at Ohio State

In 2019, Sly Worthy, Jr., a student at The Ohio State University, founded Buckeyes First, which, in August of that year, became the first chartered student organization specifically directed towards first-generation college students.

December 1
Works Begins on Chartering Tri-Alpha at Ohio State

Kenneth Harvey, the then-Director of Campus Outreach of Buckeyes First, in a whim meeting with Emily Johnson, a member of the Undergraduate Student Government, suggests the idea that a honor society be created for first-generation students, so as to complement the work being done by Buckeyes First. Such an honor…Read More

December 25
Work Begins on Tri-Alpha

Over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays of 2021 and 2022, Emily Johnson recruited fellow first-gen students, Julius McIntyre, Cameron King, and Kelsie Hegemeyer, to embark upon this endeavor, and work officially began to conceptualize and charter an Ohio State chapter of the national Alpha Alpha Alpha National Honor Society.