Three Phi Theta Kappa Chapter Advisors Win 2006 Mosal Awards
Three Phi Theta Kappa chapter advisors have been chosen to receive 2006
Mosal Awards, which carry stipends of $5,000 each for professional
development.
Recipients and their projects include Eric Chong,
Guam Community College, Guam; Lana Evans, Northwest State Community College,
Ohio, and Richard Trombley, Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge
Campus, Michigan.
Chong's Mosal Award project is Finding
My Cultural Roots and Promoting Edu-Tourism. Chong will travel to
China to gain an awareness of his own cultural heritage and experience language
immersion. While there, he will examine the edu-tourism market and the
potential to promote English as a Second Language among Chinese students.
Evans received her Mosal Award for a project entitled Applying
and Evaluating the Rasch Measurement Methodology for Use in Establishing
Placement Test Cut Score Ranges. Evans will apply the Rasch Measurement
Method to data on commonly used placement procedures. She will evaluate
the usefulness of this measurement tool for establishing placement test
cut score ranges that are based on empirical data rather than the quasi-scientific
methods currently in use.
Trombley's Mosal Award project is
Learn to Speak Spanish. Trombley will travel to Oaxaca, Mexico,
for an experience of Spanish language and cultural immersion. He hopes
to improve his ability to communicate with the students and educators from
Oaxaca and to gain a greater understanding of their culture.
Mosal
Awards were presented during Phi Theta Kappa's 88th International Convention
in Seattle. The Mosal Awards are named for the Society's late Executive
Director Emeritus, Dr. Margaret Mosal.
Advisors with at least
three years of service prior to the 2007 International Convention may apply
for 2007 Mosal Awards. Applications should be available in the late fall.
Phi
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is
the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,200 chapters
on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States,
Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin Islands and
U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been
inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students
inducted annually.
