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Phi Theta Kappa (www.ptk.org) is the International Honor Society of two-year colleges. The Alpha Pi Pi Chapter resides at CCA and has goals of encouraging members to participate in community service and develop leadership potential. Alpha Pi Pi also provides a means for scholar with high academic achievements to share their knowledge in the college. Students who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 and above and have completed at least 12 credit hours at CCA are invited to join. Phi Theta Kappa sends invitations for membership at the beginning of every semester.
Contact: 303-340-7525
Advisor: 303-340-7524.
E-Mail: PTK@CCAurora.edu
INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
FOR TWO YEAR COLLEGE
About Phi Theta Kappa
"The purpose of Phi Theta Kappa shall be to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students. To achieve this purpose, Phi Theta Kappa shall provide opportunity for the development of leadership and service, for an intellectual climate for exchange of ideas and ideals, for lively fellowship for scholars, and for stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence."
Phi Theta Kappa's mission is two-fold: 1) recognize and encourage the academic achievement of two-year college students and (2) provide opportunities for individual growth and development through participation in honors, leadership, service and fellowship programming.
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. The Society continued to grow and in the spring of 1918 was one of many honorary groups in Missouri. At a meeting of the presidents of the Missouri junior colleges for women in 1918, it was decided to organize a new honorary society, chapters of which would have a common character, stand, and similarity of organization. The name Phi Theta Kappa was chosen, and the Society was incorporated in Missouri as a national organization. Founders modeled many aspects of the new Society after the prestigious senior college honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa.
The American Association of Community Colleges recognized Phi Theta Kappa as the official honor society for two-year colleges in 1929.
