Phi Theta Kappa Chapter Chartered at Maria College
JACKSON, MS - A chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society
has been chartered at Maria College in New York.
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.
Sixteen Maria College
students were inducted as charter members in a ceremony held on campus January
20, 2009. Sr. Joan Mary Hartigan, CSJ, Assistant Professor, Religious
Studies, and Barbara Ruslander, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and
Computer Science, will serve as advisors for the new Beta Rho Kappa Chapter
of Phi Theta Kappa.
To receive an invitation to membership in
Phi Theta Kappa students must have completed at least 12 hours of coursework
that may be applied to an associate degree, must generally have a grade point
average of 3.5; and adhere to the standards of the Society.
In
order to charter a chapter of Phi Theta Kappa a college must be a regionally
accredited institution offering associate degree programs.
Members
of Phi Theta Kappa may apply for more than $36 million in transfer scholarships,
provided exclusively to Society members by more than 680 senior institutions.
In addition Phi Theta Kappa offers members numerous opportunities for
participation in honors programs, leadership training, and service to
their communities.
