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Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society
Chartered in the fall of 2000, the Virginia Kappa chapter of Alpha Chi (www.
is a national interdisciplinary honor society whose purpose is to
promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college students and to
honor those who achieve such distinction. Alpha Chi members are elected by the faculty
from students who have earned 24 semester hours at Bluefield College, are ranked in the
top ten percent of the junior or senior class or online program graduating class (based on
cumulative GPA) and have good character. Alpha Chi seeks to find ways to assist students
in “making scholarship effective for good.”
GLOBAL EDUCATION
Bluefield College is a member of the Private College Consortium for International
Studies, which provides semester abroad study opportunities in London, UK; Florence,
Italy; Sydney, Australia; Madrid, Spain, and Beijing, China. This program operates under
the aegis of CAPA International Education . Students have the opportunity
to take a variety of courses with faculty members of the cooperating institutions as well as
from qualified professors from the host country.
Additionally, Bluefield College is aligned with Consortium for Global Education
(CGE), which can be found on the web at Through this program students
can study abroad in various areas of interest, with short and long-term opportunities,
especially as they relate to the learning of the Arabic and Chinese languages.
Bluefield College also offers enrichment/learning opportunities through international
travel and cultural immersion. Such opportunities are coordinated with academic
coursework completed at the main campus in Bluefield.
The college is committed to global education and has established an exchange program
with Jiangsu Second Normal University in Nanjing, China, whereby Bluefield College
faculty and students teach and study in China, and Chinese students and faculty participate
in the Bluefield College academic environment. Similar opportunities are available in
Thailand as well as “glocal” activities in American urban settings such as Chicago.
Current information can be found under the Study Abroad link found under the
Academics Tab on the Bluefield College website, or by contacting Dr. Maria Zalduondo,
Chair of Global Education, at .
RECORDS RETENTION POLICY
Bluefield College adheres to the following Records Retention Policy. Official
applications, student biographical information, veterans certification forms, official letters,
evaluation of transfer credits, official transcripts from other institutions, high school records,
AP/CLEP/DSST scores, change of major/advisor forms, confirmation forms, SAT/ACT
scores, application for graduation, and copies of grade change forms will be kept for ten
years in the student official file.
Transcripts, original and computer backup, will be retained permanently. Academic
materials such as catalogs, commencement programs, statistics related to degrees, enroll-
ment, grades and racial/ethnic matters, and schedules of courses also will be retained per-
manently. For applicants who do not enter the College, materials will be held one year,
except where government requirements state otherwise.