J. Noah Brown, Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education and former President and CEO of the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), has been named an International Honorary member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK).
Get to know Phi Theta Kappa’s newly elected 2024-2025 International Officer team who will be representing PTK this year.
20 students across the U.S. recognized for outstanding scholarship, citizenship, and leadership.
When Dr. Adam James began his first year of medical school, he promised himself that once he became a doctor he would give back to the organizations, like Phi Theta Kappa, that helped him achieve his dream. “If I had not applied to PTK, I wouldn’t have applied to medical school,” James said. “I wouldn’t…
Catalyst is an action-packed event for all attendees, and to add to the excitement former Secret Service Special Agent and Interrogator Evy Poumpouras is joining the Catalyst speaker line-up. Evy’s speech will focus on how to own your story, reading people, and how others read you. She will be speaking on Saturday, April 6 at…
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) is now accepting entries for the new Founders Medal Award. Sponsored by the Phi Theta Kappa Board of Directors, this annual award will recognize a graduating PTK member who has written the finest essay reflecting on the value of a community college education. To be considered, PTK members must be enrolled…
“Many advocates argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit community colleges, and their students, the hardest. Colleges are struggling to meet greater demands for basic needs.” Read more at Inside Higher Ed.
“Transfer partnerships are increasingly common as enrollment declines spur collaboration. But one private college in Iowa has taken its commitment across the state.” Read more at Inside Higher Ed
“These students used planning and creativity to meet the costs of higher education.” Read more at U.S. News and World Report
“At Big Bend Community College (Washington), members of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for community college students, spent spring break making protective face masks that will go to Samaritan Healthcare, which asked for help.”