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This year’s Catalyst Keynote Speakers are Academy Award winning actor Geena Davis and former All-American football linebacker and a NFL free agent Manti Te’o!

Jessica Bronner, a graduate of Rappahannock Community College, received a Phi Theta Kappa scholarship from the University of Arizona Global Campus.

Sweet Briar College has announced their new $2,000 transfer scholarship available to PTK members! Committed to women’s leadership, Sweet Briar is all about educating women to become ethical leaders and create positive changes in the world, consistently ranking as one of the most innovative schools in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report….

Honors in Action combines academic research, problem solving, and action-oriented service to address real-world challenges in our communities. Developed to support student engagement in Honors in Action programming, the Phi Theta Kappa Honors in Action Grant helps bridge the financial gap between ideas and action. This year, thanks to the generous donation of The Andrew…

Scholar Dash is PTK’s annual 5K fundraiser, raising money to create Golden Opportunity Scholarships – providing students financial support to access the life-changing opportunities offered to PTK members. In the last two years, Scholar Dash has created 1,603 Golden Opportunity Scholarships!   The top individual fundraisers and the top region are being recognized for their…

Fall semester has arrived – and if you’re a community college student, that can mean any number of things. Whether you’re trying to review all of the syllabi for your new classes, picking up all of your books from the bookstore, getting a head start on prepping for midterms, or a mix of the three,…

Blog originally published on Higher Education Today, a blog by the American Council of Education. Recently, the Joint Statement on Transfer and Award of Credit was updated for the first time since 2017, part of the work of the ACE National Task Force on the Transfer and Award of Credit. The statement, revised by ACE, the American…

Keziah Ancheta, from Waipahu High School Early College in Hawai’i, and Dayriana Sanders, from Arapahoe Community College in Colorado, have been named Student Representatives to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) Board of Directors. A dually enrolled student, Keziah is a senior in high school and will graduate with her Associate in Arts Degree…

Taylor Fukunaga, recent graduate of Waipahu High School Early College in Hawaii, has received the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) President’s Award for Leadership Excellence, a two-year transfer scholarship of up to $30,000 each academic year. Taylor served as PTK’s 2021-2022 International Vice President of Division IV, one of the highest leadership positions in the organization,…

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) President and CEO, Dr. Lynn Tincher-Ladner, has been appointed to serve on the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Board of Directors. The AACC is the primary advocacy organization for the nation’s community colleges, representing more than 1,000 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions and nearly 10.3 million credit and non-credit students….

We are thrilled to congratulate the 2022 Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholars! One hundred high-achieving community college students received the prestigious scholarship this year, and 80 are Phi Theta Kappa members! Presented by The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF), this highly competitive national transfer scholarship awards students up to $55,000 a year to complete their bachelor’s…

Stay tuned to more International Officer content by following us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok: @phithetakappa Phi Theta Kappa’s 2022-2023 officer team brought with it the plot-twist of a century, providing even more diversity to an already stellar team with the election of the first-ever International Co-Presidents! Representing over 340,000 active members,…