Month: May 2019

Scholarship, Leadership, Service & Fellowship

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Meet Honors Institute Speaker Erica Kodish

Television writer and showrunner Erica Shelton Kodish shares the challenges she has faced as a woman in the ever-transforming entertainment business and offers her advice for breaking into the industry.

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5 Reasons to Recruit PTK Members This Summer

Many of your students may have graduated, but thousands will enroll in classes this summer, giving you a new crop of prospective members to recruit.

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Meet Honors Institute Speaker Sue Reynolds

In 2012, Sue Reynolds was morbidly obese — she couldn’t tie her own shoes. She started yet another diet; this time, it stuck. Combined with exercise, she lost more than 100 pounds the first year.

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New Transfer Scholarship: Sierra Nevada University

Sierra Nevada College (SNC) is Nevada’s only accredited, private, four-year institution, and it’s located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. It’s also the only four-year college in Nevada to offer a Phi Theta Kappa transfer scholarship.

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After Typhoon, Northern Marianas Chapter Sees Record Growth

In late October 2018, the Northern Marianas Islands were slammed head-on by Super Typhoon Yutu. Meteorologists said it was “Earth’s strongest storm of 2018,” with maximum sustained winds of about 180 miles per hour — so strong, in fact, that instruments measuring the winds gave out.

Elliott to Serve on Phi Theta Kappa Board of Directors

James Elliott, a student at Delaware Technical Community College, has been named student representative to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Board of Directors.

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Meet Honors Institute Speaker Crystal Chissell

Project Drawdown is a research and communication organization offering 100+ solutions to reverse global warming. It also produced the best-selling environmental book of 2017, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.

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Meet the 2019 Most Distinguished Chapter

The Alpha Epsilon Phi Chapter from Bergen Community College in New Jersey has racked up numerous Hallmark Awards over the last several years, but at PTK Catalyst 2019, it took the top prize: Most Distinguished Chapter.

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I AM PTK: Veronica Plante

Phi Theta Kappa member Veronica Plante will be in Cannes, France, May 11-22 for the renowned Cannes Film Festival for the screening of her short film “The Story.”