Phi Theta Kappa Appoints Five Regional Coordinators
Jackson, MS - Tammy Fuentes, Vice President of Student Affairs
at Labette Community College, Velda Arnaud, Business/Leadership
Instructor at Lane Community College; Dr. Dave Strong, Professor
of College Preparatory Studies and History at Dyersburg State Community
College; Susan Jackson, Executive Director of Student Life, Ivy
Tech Community College Central Office; and James Mauldin, Honors
Program Director and Professor of Liberal Studies and Management Sciences,
Redlands Community College; have been appointed Regional Coordinators
for the Kansas, Rocky Mountain-Cascade, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma/Arkansas
Regions by Phi Theta Kappa's Executive Director, Rod A. Risley.
Each
of Phi Theta Kappa's 29 regions is directed by a Regional Coordinator who
is also an experienced chapter advisor. Regional Coordinators facilitate
the integral relationships among chapters in the region, between Phi Theta
Kappa and the chapters, and between the Society and the two-year colleges
within the region.
Fuentes, a certified instructor
in Phi Theta Kappa's Leadership Development Studies program, has served
as advisor of the Tau Theta Chapter since 2002. Arnaud, who was selected
as a Faculty Scholar for Phi Theta Kappa's 2009 Honors Institute, has served
as advisor of the Sigma Zeta Chapter at Lane Community College since 2005
and received the Paragon Award for Advisors. Strong has served
as advisor of the Alpha Epsilon Alpha Chapter at Dyersburg State since 1991.
He has served as a Faculty Scholar and as a member of the Tennessee Regional
Advisory Council. Jackson previously served as Indiana's Regional
Coordinator from 2001 to early 2008 and was named Distinguished Regional
Coordinator in 2008. Mauldin has served as advisor of the Alpha
Beta Upsilon Chapter at Redlands Community College since 2007. His chapter
has frequently been honored as a Five Star Chapter.
"Serving
as Regional Coordinator provides significant professional leadership
opportunities and significant exposure for the individual's college,"
Risley said. "Education leaders throughout their regions will come to
respect their leadership ability, as we have at Phi Theta Kappa. Participation
in Phi Theta Kappa's international conferences and programs by these Regional
Coordinators will position their colleges in the educational arena as
institutions committed to providing students and faculty with quality
academic programming."
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered
in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher
education with 1,250 chapters on 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.
