HLSCC delegation participating in International Honours Institute
HLSCC - Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Richard Georges - Lecturer
Two students along with two members of faculty at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College are participating in the Phi Theta Kappa International Honour Society’s 44th Annual Honours Institute being held at Boston University, Massachusetts from June 13 – 17.
The faculty members are Lecturer Richard Georges, the newly elected Secretary for the Association of Phi Theta Kappa Chapter Advisors, and Head of Department Sauda Smith, Advisor in HLSCC’s Chapter of the honour society.
The students are Esteban Smith, recently elected International Vice President for Phi Theta Kappa’s Division II, and Michael Boyd, member of the College’s Chapter.
For Georges and Smith, it is their first official assignment since being elected earlier this year to two key Phi Theta Kappa positions.
In all, some 400 members, advisors and alumni are expected to attend the 2011 institute. The event provides five days of intensive examination of the 2010/2011 study topic, “The Democratisation of Information: Power, Peril and Promise.”
There will also be presentations by award-winning experts on various aspects of this topic and other issues. Throughout the various sessions, there will be small group discussions following each presentation, in which participants will be given the opportunity to voice their views and apply critical thinking to concepts introduced by each speaker In the past several months, HLSCC has left an indelible mark on a number of Phi Theta Kappa events.
Sauda Smith, Advisor in HLSCC’s Chapter of the honour society
Georges and Smith were elected secretary and international vice president in April during the honour society’s 93rd Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington.
In March, Boyd, a Mathematics Advanced Level Option student, won an art competition at Phi Theta Kappa’s Regional Convention in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In February, Smith won Phi Theta Kappa’s Coca Cola New Century Scholar Award, a coveted scholarship which attracts thousands of applications from the United States and the global network of institutions affiliated with the honour society.
In December last year, Georges was selected to serve as a Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholar for the second year running.
Since 1968, the Phi Theta Kappa International Honours Institute has engaged members through thought-provoking presentations on various study topics, selected every year for their timeliness, global significance and interdisciplinary applications.
HLSCC’s Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Beta Omicron Sigma, was chartered on May 28, 2006. The international honour society of two-year colleges, Phi Theta Kappa is the largest of its kind in higher education with more than two million members and 1,250 chapters located in all 50 of the United States, U.S. territories, Canada, Germany and elsewhere, including here in the British Virgin Islands.
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