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Holli C. Hitt
A Mississippi State senior is among six students recently elected to the executive committee of a national association representing university honors programs.
Communication management major Holli C. Hitt of Knoxville, Ala., is joining the 18-member governing board of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Serving 600 member institutions, the executive committee of 12 professional and six students conducts the council's official business from offices at Iowa State University.
Elected for a two-year term, Hitt joins newly elected student colleagues from the universities of Florida and Alabama at Birmingham.
Consistently included on the President's Scholars list, Hitt is among more than 1,000 participants in the Mississippi State University Honors Program, one of the region's largest. She also is a Schillig Scholar--one of the institution's highest academic and leadership honors.
MSU honors program director Jack White said Hitt is "an exemplar of ideal traits, both as a person and as a productive student who continues to bring recognition to Mississippi State."
Hitt was honored earlier by the national honors council with the selection of a logo she designed for its 2003 conference, where she was MSU's representative.
Among extracurricular campus activities, she is the MSU Student Association's coordinator for the Bulldog Benefit, an annual program matching hundreds of student volunteers with community residents needing assistance. She also is a member of Chi Omega sorority and scholarship director for the Panhellenic Council, the governing body for campus social sororities.
Hitt said among her goals during the council term is the continuing encouragement of student involvement at the regional and national levels. "I'm particularly interested in the student aspects of national and regional meetings," she added.
TUSCALOOSA EDITOR: Hitt is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hitt and a 2000 Tuscaloosa County High School graduate.