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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.”

Five students were elected during PTK Catalyst 2019 to represent more than 250,000 active Phi Theta Kappa members as International Officers for the 2019-2020 academic year. It will be a leadership development experience like none other.

Bryant University is a private four-year university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1863 and today offers nearly 100 courses of study.

As I stood in front of a room filled with this year’s International Officer candidates at the recent annual convention in Orlando, Florida, I thought I would start my presentation of the Steve Orlowski International Officer Candidate Award by delivering the shocking truth.

James Elliott shares his first experience as an International Officer: chartering PTK’s first chapter solely for those incarcerated.