Reporting by Dustin Wunderlich, Yakima Valley College Ambassador David H. Shinn has traveled the world following assignments in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. Shinn received three State Department Superior Honor awards for his work, which included responding to famines, enhancing food security, peacekeeping efforts and initiating a public campaign against…
Before Nick Moore made it to Capitol Hill and the Alabama Governor’s Office, he was a Phi Theta Kappa member. Nick began his higher education journey at Enterprise State Community College in Alabama, according to his Roadtrip Nation profile. At Enterprise State, he joined the Tau Mu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa and later served…
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) has selected 30 of its chapter advisors and alumni to serve as Faculty Scholars and lead discussion groups during the organization’s 2020 summer conference.
Gracie Bonds Staples grew up in a small Mississippi town where she became the first African American to be inducted into her PTK chapter. Now a popular newspaper columnist in Atlanta, one of her guiding principles is to treat everyone with dignity and respect.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholar Vanessa Newman has three tips for your scholarship application that will help you improve your experience and submit it with confidence.
Neither Amie Croteau nor her mother-in-law Judith Croteau ever thought they’d get beyond an associate degree, but awards from Phi Theta Kappa’s Fall Scholarship Application —open now through October 25 — changed everything.
Thinking about applying to become a 2020 Faculty Scholar? Here’s the top reason you should go for it, courtesy of a former skeptic.
PTK member and Jack Kent Cooke Scholar Lara Meintjes shares her top tips for applying for the foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
Having overcome extreme poverty growing up in Cambodia, PTK alumnus Thomith Chin is now at the University of Virginia and using his nonprofit, International Youth for a Better World, to train and support leaders and change-makers around the world.
As Iowa alumnus Mouhamad S. Diallo prepares to start graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley this fall, he shares how community college readied him to attend the selective school.