Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association

National Communication Association

The National Communication Association is the largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. A non-profit organization that has over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 countries...

 (NCA). As a member of the Association of College Honor Societies

Association of College Honor Societies

The Association of College Honor Societies , founded in 1925, is a predominantly American organization that serves a number of functions with respect to national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies...

 (ACHS), Lambda Pi Eta has over 400 active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide.

Lambda Pi Eta was founded in 1985 at the University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...

. Lambda Pi Eta became a part of the National Communication Association in 1988, and the official honor society of the NCA in July 1995.

Lambda Pi Eta represents what Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

described in his book, Rhetoric, as the three artistic proofs of persuasion: Logos (Lambda) meaning logic, Pathos (Pi) relating to emotion, and Ethos (Eta) defined as character credibility and ethics.