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Everything You Need to Know About the Honors Case Study Challenge
See how this unique research project can boost your soft skills and get you better prepared to transfer or enter the workforce. You could also win $500!
Nursing Students: Apply Now for Hurst Scholarship
Phi Theta Kappa’s Hurst Review NCLEX® Scholarship pays for your NCLEX® exam and gives you a free subscription to the premier Hurst NCLEX® Review, which boasts a 98.6 percent success rate.
3 Tips for Staying Focused and Creating a Fantastic JKCF Scholarship Application
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.
We Are PTK: Amie Croteau and Judith Croteau
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.
How to Be Your Own Music Therapist
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.
Where 4-Year Schools Find a Pool of Applicants: 2-Year Schools
“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
The No. 1 Reason You Should Become a Faculty Scholar
Thinking about applying to become a 2020 Faculty Scholar? Here’s the top reason you should go for it, courtesy of a former skeptic.
How to Transfer to a Highly Selective College with a Cooke Scholarship
PTK member and Jack Kent Cooke Scholar Lara Meintjes shares her top tips for applying for the foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
New Transfer Scholarship: Case Western Reserve University
Learn more about the newest transfer scholarship exclusively for Phi Theta Kappa members: $20,000 a year to Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
I AM PTK: Thomith Chin
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.
26 Students to be Published in National Literary Journal
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.
New Leadership Development Studies Course is Here and Online Only
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.
Going Vegan? The Plant-Based Diet is in our Roots
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.
Why Accept Membership in PTK
Webinar Host: Dr. Aariel Charbonnet Panelists: Melissa Price, Paige Still, Jenna Santacroce, and Tyler McKenzie
New England Region Hosts Free Leadership Conference
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.
New Transfer Scholarship: Hunter College
Learn more about the newest transfer scholarship exclusively for Phi Theta Kappa members: $1,500 to Hunter College in New York City.
11 of our Best Scholarship Application Tips
Need money for school? Now is the time to apply! Just make sure you don’t make any of these common scholarship application errors.
Why We Offer Second Chances to Inmates
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.