Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Alpha Theta Zeta Chapter
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) recognizes and encourages scholarship among two-year college students. PTK provides the opportunity for the development of leadership and service, an intellectual climate and exchange of ideas, the lively fellowship for scholars, and the stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence.
Phi Theta Kappa traces its beginnings to a Society that originated with six charter members under the name of Kappa Phi Omicron at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, in 1910. Today Phi Theta Kappa is the largest honor society in American higher education with more than 2 million members and 1,200 chapters located in all 50 of the United States and worldwide.
Alpha Theta Zeta is COTC’s chapter of PTK.
Eligibility
To be eligible for membership, a student must complete a minimum of 12 hours of associate degree coursework and earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
How to Join
Qualifying students will receive an email invitation to join PTK. To join PTK, you must accept the invitation and pay the one-time membership fee.
Contact
For more information, contact our chapter advisor Amanda Waser atwaser.5@mail.cotc.edu.
2024 Inductees
Congratulations to the following students who were inducted into the Alpha Theta Zeta chapter on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024:
- Angelic Andreoli, treasurer
- Chloe Begin
- Tricia Bioh
- Allison Davis
- Jady French
- Dash Grove
- Jamilla Holland
- Amanda Jacobson
- David Jude
- John Lowe IV
- Loren Luebke
- Nocole Lynn
- Dana Marcum
- Paul Parke
- Skye Paxson
- Madison Pennington
- Tiffany Porter
- Walter Rutherford
- Meghan Salyer
- Jennifer Suain
- Kylie Thompson
- Sophia Tosi, chapter president
- Lydia Wigal