Kappa Omicron Nu


Kappa Omicron Nu is a college honor society, based in the United States, for students in human sciences. Kappa Omicron Nu chapters are located at colleges and universities that offer a strong human sciences program.

Eligibility

Undergraduate members are required to:
Membership is available to professionals and majors in any of the following or related specialty areas, including: consumer resource management, design, exercise science, family and consumer sciences education, financial planning, food science and human nutrition, health sciences, human environment and housing, individual and family development, institution/hotel/restaurant management, interior design, kinesiology, leadership, marital and family therapy, merchandising management, textiles/apparel and clothing.

History

Kappa Omicron Nu was established on February 21, 1990 through consolidation of Omicron Nu and Kappa Omicron Phi. It continued on both groups membership in the ACHS. The notion of consolidation came from a strategic planning session for the Administrative Member of the two organizations. Phi Upsilon Omicron was also invited to join in the discussion of forming one Honor Society. Other possible names for the consolidated groups were Omicron Society and Sigma Rho Lambda.
At the time of the Merger, the two groups shared the same publication: Home Economics FORUM.

Omicron Nu

Omicron Nu was founded at Michigan Agricultural College on April 23, 1912
The founders were six faculty members and eleven student members.
At the time of the discussion of the merger in 1989, Omicron Nu had 65,000 members, 50 active chapters, 5 Alumni Chapters and the National Alumni Chapter.
Omicron Nu was a founding member of the Professional Panhellenic Association. Omicron Nu joined the Association of College Honor Societies in 1951 and was readmitted in 1968.

Kappa Omicron Phi

Kappa Omicron Phi was founded at Northwest Missouri State College on December 11, 1922. Kappa Omicron Phi was suggested by Mabel Cook a student in the dietetics class of Hettie Margaret Anthony. Miss Anthony who was the head of Home Economics was a leader in Kappa Omicron Phi for the first fourteen years of its existence.
At the time of the discussion of the merger in 1989, Omicron Nu had 26,000 members, 79 active chapters, 8 Alumni Chapters and the Alumni Chapter-Large.

Chapter Listing

Designation of Chapters
A chapter, which was formed by the predecessor society Kappa Omicron Phi, shall have the prefix "Kappa" before its Greek-letter chapter name. A chapter, which was formed by the predecessor society Omicron Nu, shall have the prefix "Omicron" before its Greek-letter name. The first collegiate chapter chartered by Kappa Omicron Nu shall be designated Nu Alpha, and the remainder of the chapters shall follow according to the Greek alphabet with the prefix "Nu."

Chartered as Kappa Omicron Phi