Chapters, Members Recognized as 2006 Honors Case Study Challenge Winners
JACKSON, MS - Two Phi Theta Kappa chapters and two Phi Theta Kappa members
have been chosen as recipients of the 2006
Honors Case Study Challenge Awards. Each winner will receive
a $500 scholarship award, and their winning entries have been published
on USA
TODAY's collegiate website.
Recognized at the 2006
International Convention in Seattle were the Phi Theta Kappa chapters
from College of DuPage in Illinois and Lehigh Carbon Community College
in Pennsylvania and members Barbara Teed from Normandale Community College,
in Minnesota and Linda Sue Lee Howerton from Cleveland State Community
College in Tennessee.
The 2006 Honors Case Study Challenge
entries were based on articles appearing in USA TODAY relating to the Phi
Theta Kappa Honors Study Topic, Popular Culture: Shaping and Reflecting
Who We Are.
The chapter's entry from College of DuPage,
Harry Potter and the Amulet of Readership, examined the effectiveness
of Harry Potter themed books in encouraging children to read. The chapter
also won the Honors Case Study Challenge in 2005.
The Lehigh
chapter's entry was titled Obesity in America, and examined this growing
health threat to U.S. children and adults.
Teed's entry was
Faster than a Speeding Airwave, which focused on the emergence of satellite
radio as a pop culture phenomenon.
Howerton's entry, The Internet
and Free Speech, explored the unprecedented impact of the internet on the
free speech debate.
The Honors Case Study Challenge is sponsored
annually by Phi Theta Kappa and USA TODAY. The competition marks a joint
effort by Phi Theta Kappa and USA TODAY to encourage newspaper readership
among college students, to provide opportunities for members to research
topics, and to encourage civic awareness and participation.
Phi
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi,
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.
USA TODAY is the nation's top-selling newspaper.
With a total circulation of 2.3 million, USA TODAY is available worldwide.
