Phi Theta Kappa wins national USA Today competition

Alpha Mu Chi, Northeast Texas Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, earned national acclaim as one of four chapters to win the 2013 Honors Case Study Challenge competition sponsored by USA Today. Tied to the larger Phi Theta Kappa Honors in Action research project, the Case Study Challenge competition gives chapter members an opportunity to focus their attention on a specific area of study. The challenge encourages individual members and chapters of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society to use USA Today newspapers as a study aid and to remain aware of current events. Each of the four winning entrants will receive $500 and be recognized on stage at Phi Theta Kappa’s 2014 Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida in April.
The entry, entitled “What does the chalk say?: Innovating America’s Classroom,” focused on educational reforms currently being tried around the country. The chapter chose the focus of the case study after brainstorming for several hours and boiling down their interests into a topic that affected them directly as students.  The topic was chosen as a result of discussions which took place among the officer team and active members at the end of the spring and early summer, with most of the research taking place throughout the early fall semester. A number of members contributed research, including, most notably, Alisha Richardson, Courtney Phillips, Miranda Mendoza, Armando Yepez and Lauren Fennimore.

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