A survey of active and inactive members and a survey of higher education stakeholders provided insights regarding needs and goals. Kappa Omicron Nu as a learning community is gaining currency. Each word of the sub-title of this paper was chosen carefully. Making implies an ever-changing, fluid, and dynamic state that can undergo reconfiguration with new information, energy, or events. The learning paradigm rather than the instruction paradigm gives primacy to the learner and learning outcomes over the teacher and instruction.
Community implies a group linked by common interests.
The task of changing honor societies is a daunting one. This culture has the effect of making it incredibly difficult to change honor societies. Although there have long been higher expectations at the national leadership level of Kappa Omicron Nu, there has been little impact on the institution. It is therefore incumbent upon Kappa Omicron Nu to form collaborative partnerships with academic units if it is to increase learning outcomes. In addition to the challenge and complexity of change efforts, lack of clarity of intended results undoubtedly played a role in the difference in expectations at the highest levels and reality at the grassroots chapter level.