The Golden Key Honor Society was founded by James Lewis on 1977 at Georgia State University.  Lewis established the society because he noticed that a limited number of students where chosen for recognition while others, often with very high grade point averages, were being ignored.  After some research, he found out that most of the honor societies that existed at that time had many restrictions and low member diversity.  For that reason he decided to establish a society that would recognize outstanding academic achievement without forgetting diversity and community service, the Golden Key Honor Society.  After just one year of establishment, other Golden Key Chapters were formed in universities of the southern United States.

The progress has been so great that in the year 2000 Golden Key changed its name to Golden Key International Honour Society.  The organization now has more than 300 chapters in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Africa and Puerto Rico.  That means more than one million members in 151 countries.  The name is Honour and not Honor because in some international countries the word for the quality that combines respect, pride, honesty and truthfulness is Honour not Honor.  

For more details on the history of the Golden Key International Honour Society, you may visit the http://goldenkey.gsu.edu/GKweb/WhatIsGoldenKey/History/ web page.

The Golden Key International Honour Society Chapter of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus was founded on May 7, 1996.  Since its establishment, our mission has been the same as the national headquarters; to recognize outstanding scholastic achievement, unite faculty and staff with students, promote voluntary service and provide economic assistance.  Throughout the years, we have recognized more than a thousand outstanding students of our campus and we hope to recognize and help even more students in the future.

Every year we celebrate our traditional induction ceremony as well as other activities such as visits to the elderly, children toy drives and member co fraternization activities.  We work hard to make our chapter better every year.  If you want to be a member of a society that recognizes you as the outstanding student you are, with a diversity of people and majors and a strong voluntary service sense, please join us.