Alabama Chapter Named Phi Theta Kappa's 2008 Most Distinguished

JACKSON, MISS. - The Beta Lambda Delta Chapter at Jefferson State Community College-Shelby Campus in Birmingham, Alabama, was named Phi Theta Kappa's Most Distinguished Chapter for 2008 at the conclusion of the recent International Convention in Philadelphia.

The chapter earned Scholarship, Leadership and Service Hallmark Awards and was named a Distinguished Chapter. Among the comprehensive programs undertaken by the chapter during the past year were creating a "bio-station," or living lab on their campus, conducting a leadership symposium series for local high school students and participating in an oral history project in conjunction with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

The Most Distinguished Chapter was announced at the conclusion of the Hallmark Awards Gala.

First Finalist was the Kappa Alpha Chapter from Holmes Community College in Goodman, Mississippi.

Second Finalist was the Eta Nu Chapter at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Third Finalist was the Beta Theta Kappa Chapter from Butte College in Oroville, California.

Fourth Finalist was the Pi Omega Chapter at Danville Area Community College in Danville, Illinois.

Fifth Finalist went to the Alpha Zeta Iota Chapter at Northwest Shoals Community College in Phil Campbell, Alabama.

Complete 2008 Hallmark Awards results are available on the Phi Theta Kappa website.

Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,250 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates 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.

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