Dr. Patricia West
Dr. Patricia West, a speech instructor at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jefferson Davis Campus, was selected as a Faculty Scholar for the 2009 Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholar Conference and 2009 Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Institute.
Dr. West is one of only 24 people who were selected for this honor from a large pool of applicants. Applicants must be Phi Theta Kappa advisers who have exhibited exceptional knowledge of the current Honors Study Topic, “The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges and Consequences,” and demonstrated excellence in teaching.
The Faculty Scholar Conference, sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was held at Phi Theta Kappa’s Center for Excellence in Jackson Jan. 29–Feb. 1. The conference prepares the Faculty Scholars to serve as group facilitators at the Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Institute. Faculty Scholars heard presentations on a variety of issues concerning the paradox of affluence and participated in discussion groups throughout the three-day conference.
The 2009 International Honors Institute will be held June 22-26 at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va. During this conference, West and the other Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholars will lead groups of 15-20 honor students in seminar discussions of the issues presented throughout the week.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is the largest honor society in American higher education, with 1,250 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
