All of our national hour societies recognize achievements in a variety of disciplines. The Kappa Cast is the Ottawa Chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, a national dramatics fraternity. Membership is conferred on those who have done outstanding work in drama. Phi Kappa Theta Phi Kappa Theta, the national history honor society, is represented at Ottawa University by the Mu Omicron Chapter, which was chartered in May, 1967. Membership is open to all students interested in the past and in its impact upon the problems of today.
Eligibility is established by superior grades in history courses.
Pi Kappa Delta Pi Kappa Delta, the largest national forensic fraternity, was founded at Ottawa University in 1913. The Ottawa Chapter sponsors a varied program of speech activities. Sigma Alpha Honor Society Sigma Alpha was established as a local honors society at Ottawa University in 1941. Its purpose at that time was to encourage high academic achievement by electing to membership those students who had been active in the honors program. The national honor society in physics installed the Ottawa University Chapter in May, 1971.