What is Delta Tau Alpha?
The Honor Society of Delta Tau Alpha (DTA) promotes and recognizes scholarship and leadership accomplishments of agricultural students while emphasizing character development, enhancing undergraduate preparation for professional positions, and joining with other agricultural student’s organizations in the promotion of agriculture.

What are the Benefits of Delta Tau Alpha?

1. Recognition of scholarship and leadership in agriculture.
2. Initiation at a ceremony and reception/banquet held on their campus.
3. A personalized membership certificate.
4. Access to a web-based newsletter “The Achiever” informing members of activities at the national and club levels.
5. An opportunity to attend the annual national convention held on the campus of DTA chapters. A one-time initiation fee of $25 makes a student a life-time member at the national level.

What is the Purpose of Delta Tau Alpha?

1. To promote and recognize high standards of scholarship, leadership, and character among agriculture students.
2. To encourage and foster high ethical standards of agriculture and professional positions held by agricultural students.
3. To band together a group of outstanding students who by scholastic accomplishment, service, and upholding high character standards have been recognized for these traits and are capable of recognizing these traits in others.
4. To promote the profession of agriculture.
5. To render service and to cooperate with the student bodies and the agricultural divisions of the respective institutions.

Who can join Delta Tau Alpha?

In general, students from four-year institutions must:
 Rank in the upper 35% of their class and have completed 45 semester hours of which 9 hours have been agriculture courses.
In general, students from a two-year institution must:
 Rank in the upper 35% of their class and have completed 24 semester hours of which 6 hours have been agriculture courses.

How is a chapter established?

A local chapter may be established, maintained or reactivated only in non-land grant colleges and universities that grant associate, baccalaureate or higher degrees that provide instruction in agriculture and that are accredited by the appropriate national or regional accrediting agency.

If interested in establishing or reactivating a chapter of Delta Tau Alpha, please contact the national advisor, Dr. Diana Watson at dwatso30@utm.edu. We hope to hear from you!