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“These students used planning and creativity to meet the costs of higher education.” Read more at U.S. News and World Report

“At Big Bend Community College (Washington), members of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for community college students, spent spring break making protective face masks that will go to Samaritan Healthcare, which asked for help.”

“Colleges, including elite schools, are making it easier to transfer from community colleges, seeing a valuable source of highly motivated students.” Read more at the New York Times

After serving time for his part in a home invasion, James Elliott, Phi Theta Kappa’s 2019-2020 International President has turned to education and telling his story to inspire others on a journey to do better.

I often tell my children that I have the best job on the planet. As President and CEO of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, I am in the business of creating opportunities for some of the nation’s hardest-working students by connecting them to life-changing scholarships and family-sustaining employment.

As a result of the growing body of research, selective colleges are beginning to wake up to the fact that community college transfers are just as smart and capable as students from more affluent families, and that they bring valuable new perspectives to a classroom.

Seventy-eight colleges and universities have been named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s 2019 Transfer Honor Roll in recognition of the dynamic pathways they have created to support transfer students.