The National Honor Society (NHS) is the nation's premier organization, established to recognize outstanding high school students. More than just an honor roll distinction, NHS serves to recognize those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.
Selection Process:
Students are invited to membership in the Br. Edmund Sheehan Chapter of the National Honor Society. Sophomores and Juniors are eligible for candidacy only if they have met or exceeded the following requirements:
- Scholarship:
- GPA: 3.5 unweighted cumulative (grades are not rounded up
- GPA is calculated through the Fall semester of Sophomore or Junior year
- Service: Christian community service must be recorded with the Columbus service coordinator by the end of the first semester of the year in consideration. However, it is a student’s responsibility to verify with the Christian Service Coordinator deadlines for submitting service hours that will be credited for the Fall semester.
- Sophomores: 25 hours
- Juniors: 50 hours
- Character/Leadership: 3 recommendation forms from 3 teachers or 2 teachers and a club moderator and/or a coach and/or a guidance counselor and/or an administrator currently employed at Christopher Columbus High School.
Upon verification of the academic and service criteria, a letter of eligibility will be sent to the students which will include the recommendation forms and deadlines for their submission to the NHS Adviser. Students should print the forms and submit them to the teacher/coach/moderator/counselor/administrator. It is the students’ responsibility to ascertain if the forms have been turned by the deadline.
Failure to turn in the recommendation forms by the deadline may disqualify the student for membership.
Once the recommendation forms are reviewed, students will receive an invitation in writing regarding their candidacy to NHS. The invitation will be accompanied by a "Letter of Agreement". Students must submit a printed and signed “Letter of Agreement” to the adviser by the deadline on the invitation.
Failure to turn in the “Letter of Agreement” by the deadline may disqualify the student for membership.
Transfer Students:
Students may be considered for membership after completing 2 semesters at Columbus and meeting CCHS chapter requirements.
Students previously inducted at another high school may be accepted as members of the Br. Edmund Sheehan Chapter/Columbus by obtaining a letter of confirmation of membership in good standing from the chapter adviser of their previous school. However, students must maintain the Br. Edmund Sheehan Chapter/Columbus standards to earn wearing the NHS stole at graduation.
Membership:
Members of the National Honor Society are expected to maintain academic standards and service requirements, as well as demonstrate exemplary moral character throughout their tenure as members.
Members are expected to attend all mandatory general NHS meetings as well as to participate in a minimum of 15 hours of NHS-sponsored community service activities each year of membership. Only the NHS Adviser may waive part or all the 15 hours service requirement. Only the NHS Adviser may approve/accept service hours from other Columbus honor societies in lieu of the NHS service requirements.
No student may hold office in the National Honor Society if he is an officer of any other honor society at Columbus.
Letters of probationary status or expulsion will be sent to students who fail to maintain any of the standards and requirements of NHS membership. Seniors who fail to meet the conditions of probation or who are expelled from NHS will not be permitted to wear the NHS stole at the Columbus graduation ceremony.