SUNY Oneonta First-Generation Students Inducted into National Honor Society

Sixty-four first-generation SUNY Oneonta students were inducted into the Alpha Alpha Alpha national honor society during a ceremony on campus on April 18, 2026.

Alpha Alpha Alpha, known as Tri-Alpha for short, was founded in 2018 to recognize and celebrate the hard work and academic success of first-generation university students. This was the fourth class of SUNY Oneonta students to be inducted into the national honor society.

Students qualify for induction into Tri-Alpha if they meet the following criteria: The student has earned at least 30 credits/semester hours in the academic year toward an associate degree or baccalaureate degree; the undergraduate student has achieved an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale; and neither of the student's parents, stepparents, nor legal guardians, completed a bachelor's or associate's degree.

Additionally, Ashiyha Mcclurrin, Vinnie Gravanda, Shawna Taylor, Karla Nava, Nicole Brybag, Chloe Walsh, Thomas Ragland, Diego Abraham and Keith Jones were among the nine SUNY Oneonta faculty and staff inducted into the Alpha Alpha Alpha honor society during the ceremony.