Phi Theta Kappa, International Honor Society of the Two-Year College


The Journey
A newsletter for chapter advisors, chapter officers, and regional officers.

September/
October 2002
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Honors & Service Projects: What’s the difference?

For the next two years, the Society’s Honors Study Topic and the International Service Program are focused on health.

While the health theme allows a chapter to tackle both honors and service with the same project, it is important to note the elements that make a good honors project and those that make a good service project. When it comes time to write your chapter’s Hallmark Awards essays, you’ll need to make the distinction between “Scholarship” and “Service.” The Scholarship Hallmark showcases the Honors Study Topic and the Service Hallmark highlights the International Service Program.

What distinguishes an honors project?

  • It explores one or more of the issues in the Honors Study Topic. For a full explanation of issues, refer to the 2002-04 Program Guide which is also available online at www.ptk.org/honors/guide/.

  • Its primary focus is to educate, enlighten and inform others about a particular issue. For example, inviting a speaker to discuss the latest on stem cell research, or watching and discussing a film such as Medicine Man.

  • It should reach a diverse audience. Try to reach as many people as you can with your honors projects. A comprehensive honors program will have impacted your chapter members, your college campus, your local community and the region. Some comprehensive programs are even global in scope.
What makes a good service project?
  • It is focused on Conquering Cancer. To volunteer through your local American Cancer Society office, contact Donna Scoggins of the American Cancer Society at donna.scoggins@cancer.org or 404.329.7960.

  • It fills a need that would otherwise go unmet.

  • It is altruistic in nature and emphasizes to chapter members the value of lifelong service.

For more ideas on implementing the Honors Study Topic, contact Director of Honors Programs Billy Wilson at billy.wilson@ptk.org or 601.984.3515.

For more ideas on implementing the International Service Program, visit www.ptk.org/service/ or contact Director of Programs Jennifer Stanford at jennifer.stanford@ptk.org or 601.984.3532.

 

 


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