More than 450 Phi Theta Kappa members, advisors, alumni and staff kicked off the 45th Honors Institute at the University of Denver on June 18 in the most unlikely of ways given the excess of technology available today: by watching a silent movie accompanied by a live pianist.
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Jackson, MS – Kenneth Ruemke, a support advisor for Halliburton, has been appointed to serve on Phi Theta Kappa’s Alumni Advisory Council for a two-year term.
JACKSON, MS – The International Public Safety Leadership and Ethics Institute (IPSLEI) is partnering with Phi Theta Kappa to establish an endowment for a scholarship to be named in honor of Dr. Richard L.
Each year, a barren "tree" made of brown twisted paper sprouts in the student center at the Northwest Campus of Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.
JACKSON, MS – Phi Theta Kappa Executive Director Dr. Rod Risley has been on the road this spring, serving as commencement speaker at Mesa Community College, Arizona, (May 11), Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey (May 17) and Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico (May 23).
JACKSON, MS – Phi Theta Kappa has chartered its first exclusively online chapter at Ashford University. In an April 29 chartering ceremony 222 students became charter members of the new Beta Tau Chi Chapter.
JACKSON, MS - Dr. E. Ann McGee, President of Seminole State College in Florida and a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Foundation Board of Trustees, received a 2012 Fulbright Community College Administrator Seminar Program Award that recently took her to Russia for meetings with higher education administrators to determine opportunities for partnerships with U.S. community colleges.
Jennifer Robertson of Mechanicsville, Maryland, joined Phi Theta Kappa because of the opportunities it afforded college students.
JACKSON, MS - The Phi Theta Kappa Foundation has named former METI CEO Lou Oberndorf as a member of the Board of Trustees. The Foundation was created to direct the Society's fundraising and development programs.
Jackson, MS – Twenty students have been named to the 22nd annual All-USA Community College Academic Team, honored for their outstanding intellectual achievement and leadership. Each team member will receive a $2,500 scholarship.

