|
|
|
|
|
|
|
    |
|
November/
|
 |
|
Are your chapter members fired up about Phi Theta Kappa? Can you feel a special energy erupting in your chapter? Or is your chapter just waiting for a spark from something, no, anything to get you going? Isaac Rodrigues of Valencia Community College’s West Campus in Orlando, Florida, says that his chapter once fit this profile. He describes how he found the Five Star Chapter Development Program to be the lighter fluid necessary to ignite his chapter. Q. What was your chapter like when you became a member? A. When I joined Phi Theta Kappa, I really did not know anything about the organization. My chapter, Chi Epsilon, was a 0 Star chapter. Our chapter officers were inactive, thus, our members were uninvolved as well. In one of my first meetings, they basically asked us if anyone would like to be an officer in the upcoming year. Whoever wanted to be an officer, became an officer. I was elected Vice President of Service. Q. When were you first exposed to the Five Star Program? A. During our Regional Convention, I watched as other chapters walked up and received their award for achieving Five Star status. It was at that moment that I made a goal for my chapter to be a Five Star Chapter before I left Valencia. I think it is typical for scholars to desire to excel. I knew it would take a lot of work to become a Five Star Chapter, but to me being a Five Star Chapter meant being the best. Five Star was the goal that gave vision to the chapter. Q. What did the Five Star Program do for your chapter? A. The Five Star Chapter Development Program taught our group how to plan and how to work with others. It helped the officers because it gave us direction to lead the rest of our chapter. It encouraged our officers to be servant leaders. We learned to not only help in our own projects, but also in the projects of others. Because of the increased activity of the officers, membership rose. Our chapter became a family of scholars that was dedicated to fellowship, scholarship, leadership, and service. As a result, the first year in the program we achieved Two Star status and received the Fellowship Hallmark Chapter Award for the Florida Region, and the second year we achieved Five Star status. Q. Now that you have achieved your goal, what’s next? A. We worked hard and my goal of being a Five Star Chapter came early. So my new goal is to be within the top three chapters in the Florida Region, and I know we can do it. We made it this far in a year. Who knows how far we will go in another year!
|
|
| To
change your address or inquire about delivery:Data.Manager@ptk.org Inquiries concerning Phi Theta Kappa publications:Nell.Ewing@ptk.org Inquiries concerning The Journey:Jennifer.Stanford@ptk.org Inquiries/comments concerning Phi Theta Kappa issues:member.services@ptk.org Technical questions about the Web site:webmaster@ptk.org Please include your college and chapter names with your e-mail. Copyright
1996-2002 by Phi Theta Kappa, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The name, logo
and various titles have been registered with the U.S. Patent Office. |