Pima Community College Faculty Member Appointed to Honors Committee
Robert Carey, a biology professor at Pima Community College in Arizona,
has been appointed to Phi Theta Kappa's Honors Committee as the Science/Technology
Representative. Carey will serve a four-year term on the Honors Committee,
effective July 2006.
The 2006-08 Honors
Study Topic, Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Struggle for
Power, will explore the human drive for power and the multiple dimensions
of power.
"We are privileged to have Robert Carey as a member
of our Honors Committee," said Phi Theta Kappa Executive Director Rod A.
Risley. "His teaching experience in the fields of biology and ecology will
be invaluable to the Committee in adding a scientific dimension to this
topic," Risley said. "We welcome his expertise as a dedicated Phi Theta
Kappa advisor and highly respected member of the Pima Community College
faculty."
Recently elected Secretary of Phi Theta Kappa's
Association of
Chapter Advisors, Carey has also served as a seminar leader for
the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute.
He received Bachelor
of Science, Teacher Education, Master's and Doctoral Studies degrees
from the University of Arizona. Carey is a member of Pima Community College's
Collaborative Learning Team and a research associate at Arizona Research
Laboratories Division of Biotechnology.
The
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Committee, composed of Phi Theta Kappa
regional coordinators, faculty advisors and consultants, biennially
selects the Society's Honors
Program, an interdisciplinary study of a timely Honors Study
Topic used by chapters and colleges as the basis for honors study in colloquies,
courses, seminars and the Honors
Satellite Seminar Series.
The Honors Committee publishes
the Honors Study Topic
Guide, a resource for exploring the current topic, and assists
in planning the Society's Faculty Scholar Conference and Honors
Institute, a weeklong summer conference focusing on the Honors
Study Topic.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society,
headquartered in Jackson, is the oldest and 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.
