{"id":11031,"date":"2023-04-21T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:58:30","slug":"psychology-professor-elected-secretary-of-national-honor-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/21\/psychology-professor-elected-secretary-of-national-honor-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology professor elected secretary of national honor society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-249x310.jpg\" alt=\"teddi deka\" width=\"249\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-200x249.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-249x310.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-400x497.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-600x746.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-768x955.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-800x995.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Deka-Teddi.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>April 21, 2023&#8211;Dr. Teddi Deka, professor of psychology at Missouri Western State University, was recently elected national secretary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/alphachihonor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpha Chi National College Honor Society<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deka continues as an advisor to the Missouri Western Lambda chapter of Alpha Chi and as secretary of the Northern Plains region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deka has taught in Missouri Western\u2019s psychology department since 1997. She received her bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alpha Chi is a national college honor society for college juniors, seniors and graduate students of all academic disciplines. The society was founded in 1922 to promote and encourage academic scholarship by recognizing high-achieving students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, 2023&#8211;Dr. Teddi Deka, professor of psychology at Missouri Western State University, was recently elected national secretary of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society.\u00a0 Dr. Deka continues as an advisor to the Missouri Western Lambda chapter of Alpha Chi and as secretary of the Northern Plains region. Dr. Deka has taught in Missouri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}