Chi Sigma Iota
Chi Sigma Iota (CSI) is the international honor society for students, professional counselors and counselor educators established at Ohio University in 1985. Our mission is to promote scholarship, research, professionalism, leadership and excellence in counseling, and to recognize high attainment in the pursuit of academic and clinical excellence in the profession of counseling. Because common usage of the term "counselor" can be misleading, professional counselors are distinguished by their preparation at the graduate level in pursuit of both Masters and Doctoral degrees. One's highest or terminal degree in counselor education is considered evidence of desire to identify with the profession and through membership to support the mission of the Society.
The Society was established in 1985 through the efforts of leaders in the profession of counseling whose desire was to provide recognition for outstanding achievement as well as outstanding service within the profession. For purposes of clarity among helping professionals who use counseling as a method or its techniques, the graduate education of members of the profession of counseling are defined by the national standards of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Individuals whose programs of study in counselor education were accredited by the Council of Rehabilitation Education (CORE) also are eligible for membership. While some members may be enrolled in programs that are not accredited by CACREP at the present time, the program where chapters are located must prepare its graduates to be eligible for state or national credentialing as professional counselors and fundamentally meet the minimum standards as defined by CACREP. Over two-thirds of the counselor education programs that sponsor CSI chapters are nationally accredited. CSI's goal is to encourage and ultimately expect all chapters to be located in nationally accredited counselor education programs.
Founded at Ohio University, Chi Sigma Iota has over 125,000 members who have been initiated into the Society. We are growing by welcoming over 7,000 new members and chartering new chapters each year. This makes CSI one of the largest single member organizations of professional counselors in the world. We have 273 chapters in the USA, Europe, and the Philippines with more added almost monthly in recent years. Members will be found in countries all over the world, most of whom were educated in US university programs described above. With the spread of professional counseling to other countries on the rise, we expect to support more chapters in more countries in the future.
Chi Sigma Iota Membership
New member registration: This information will ONLY apply to those students who have *already completed* at least 9 semester hours of graduate coursework. If your GPA for those 9+ hours is a 3.5 or higher, then you are potentially eligible to join CSI. In addition, faculty must affirm that you are "deemed promising for endorsement as a professional counselor whose ethical judgment and behavior will be exemplary" (CSI Bylaws, Article 4.)
Instructions:
Visit www.csi-net.org
- Be sure to note the application information provided on that page before you click on the link. In case you already clicked on the link, here is the information:
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- Chapter Name: Epsilon Iota Upsilon
- 'Work address' is your address while attending EIU. Upon graduation, materials will be mailed to your permanent or "home" address.
- Fill your expected graduation date, if you are full time. If part time, you may estimate.
- We ARE a CACREP program and we are NOT a CORE program
- Do not opt to be removed from society emails
2. Then, under the right hand side column under Sign-In, click ' New Member Registration'
3. On the next page that opens, select " Student" as member type, and proceed to complete the application.
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- It will ask for a username, first name, and last name.
- Next is your membership selection- New Member, $50- Click ‘Accept this and continue’
- You will be taken to the next screen which will ask for all of your personal and some educational information.
- Under the section ‘Additional Information’, choose ‘yes’ for all of the options.
- Once you are done with providing this information, choose ‘Submit’
4. The next section is for Membership Dues
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- Fill out group membership, choosing Chi Sigma Iota
- Review your ‘Member Information’
- Fill in your ‘Billing Information’
- Fill in your ‘Payment Information’ for your dues
- Once you have reviewed all of your information and put in your payment information, click ‘Submit Securely’
5. Once this is completed, you have the option to view your invoice/receipt, but you should also receive an email to the provided email address that they received your membership dues payment.
Please note: during the on-line application process, you will be asked to pay a $50 national membership fee by credit card. Your application will not be processed until this payment has been made, and will be eliminated from CSI's on-line system if not payment is not made within 48-hours of your application. Also, a $15 payment must be made to our chapter's treasurer for local dues.
Chi Sigma Iota Officers 2024-2025
President: Josh Noe
Leads general body meetings, delegates to other positions, files annual reports and coordinates with CSI faculty advisors
Vice-President:Madeline Hemrich
Heads outreach, assists all other board members, leads general body meetings when needed
Treasurer: Sylvie Rasch
Oversees all monetary actions of organization
Secretary: Alexander Weems
Types up minutes of meetings, oversees organization and orders and communication to general body
Social Chair: Megan Kenny
Oversees and coordinates social events, is responsible for connecting CSI to the community
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Angela M Yoder and Dr. Danessa Carter
Chi Sigma Iota Fundraising
The counseling academic & professional honor society Chi Sigma Iota of Eastern Illinois University is hosting a donation drive event to benefit the Children's Advocacy Center located here in Charleston, IL.
What is the Children's Advocacy Center and why should you help fund it???
"The Children’s Advocacy Center is a safe, child-friendly and child-focused place
where victimized children and their families can receive needed services. Our goal
is to improve the community’s response to children who have been victims of sexual
or serious physical abuse."
The CAC works with many local agencies to best assist these families and children,
including all major police departments, the Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services, the State’s Attorney’s Office, mental health providers, and local hospitals.
If you would like to learn more about the Children's Advocacy Center, you can visit
their website at http://www.caceci.org/
Are you interested in donating something other than a monetary amount? The CAC is also in need of specific items! If you would like to donate one of the items below, there will be a drop box in the Counseling and Higher Education office in Buzzard Hall, or you can bring it with you on the day of the event!
Donation items needed:
- Gas Cards
- Individually wrapped candy such as Twix, Reeses cups, Mars bars, etc.
- Stamps
- Copy paper (white)
- AA and AAA batteries
- DVD-R Discs
- HP #60, #26, and #27 black ink printer cartridges
- HP #60 and #28 color ink printer cartridges