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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholar Vanessa Newman has three tips for your scholarship application that will help you improve your experience and submit it with confidence.

Neither Amie Croteau nor her mother-in-law Judith Croteau ever thought they’d get beyond an associate degree, but awards from Phi Theta Kappa’s Fall Scholarship Application —open now through October 25 — changed everything.

Chapter advisor Jackie Pierce saw the power of music therapy when her dad was in hospice care. In a recent TEDx Talk, she shares how we can all become our own music therapists.

“Colleges, including elite schools, are making it easier to transfer from community colleges, seeing a valuable source of highly motivated students.” Read more at the New York Times

Thinking about applying to become a 2020 Faculty Scholar? Here’s the top reason you should go for it, courtesy of a former skeptic.

PTK member and Jack Kent Cooke Scholar Lara Meintjes shares her top tips for applying for the foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.

Learn more about the newest transfer scholarship exclusively for Phi Theta Kappa members: $20,000 a year to Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

Having overcome extreme poverty growing up in Cambodia, PTK alumnus Thomith Chin is now at the University of Virginia and using his nonprofit, International Youth for a Better World, to train and support leaders and change-makers around the world.

Twenty-six Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) members will have their writing published in the 2019 issue of PTK’s online literary journal, Nota Bene. Five of the students will receive scholarships for their exemplary entries.

The sixth edition of our nationally recognized Leadership Development Studies curriculum is more accessible than ever before — and it’s free for all PTK members.

Division 1 Vice President Jenna Santacroce has been a vegan for four years. The new “Impossible Whopper” brought her back to Burger King, and she hopes the trendy burger will bring more people back to the plant-based diet of our ancestors.

Webinar Host: Dr. Aariel Charbonnet Panelists: Melissa Price, Paige Still, Jenna Santacroce, and Tyler McKenzie

This new conference brought PTK’s Leadership Development curriculum to chapter officers, got new advisors more engaged with the Society, and helped all attendees get fired up for the fall semester.

Learn more about the newest transfer scholarship exclusively for Phi Theta Kappa members: $1,500 to Hunter College in New York City.

Need money for school? Now is the time to apply! Just make sure you don’t make any of these common scholarship application errors.

As International President James Elliott attended a recent induction and graduation ceremony at Eastern Correctional Institution in Maryland, he was reminded yet again that he is not alone — that both an education and PTK membership can have a profound impact on an inmate’s life.

As International President James Elliott attended a recent induction and graduation ceremony at Eastern Correctional Institution in Maryland, he was reminded yet again that he is not alone — that both an education and PTK membership can have a profound impact on an inmate’s life.

PTK isn’t just for transfer students! As you recruit new members this fall, make sure you understand how to target career and technical education students in your outreach — and why you should.