Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Theta Kappa, National Honor Society Announce Alliance

The Alliance for Academic Excellence, an initiative to promote liberal arts education at all levels of education, was announced Wednesday at a press conference held in Washington, DC. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Theta Kappa, and the National Honor Society for high schools announced the first collaborative program in the history of honor societies. Each organization will use Phi Theta Kappa's Honors Study Program as the focus for programming. National Honor Society will promote implementation of the Honors Study Program in publications and conventions. Phi Theta Kappa chapters will invite high school honor society chapters to community colleges to participate this fall in five Satellite Seminars co-produced by Phi Theta Kappa and the National Collegiate Honors Council. Phi Beta Kappa will coordinate a panel presentation on the Honors Study Program at the National Honor Society Convention this November in Louisville, Kentucky. Panelists will include community college faculty representatives. National media coverage was provided Thursday in USA Today and the Chronicle for Higher Education. Press coverage is posted on the Society's web site society/alliancepress.htm Information for subscribing to the Satellite Seminars is available at nchcss/. Contact: Rod Risley 601.984.3520 or mailto:rod.risley@ptk.org.

Posted: Friday, 14-Nov-2003 11:01:14 CST