Dr. MaryAnn Sison
Dr. MaryAnn Sison, social studies instructor at the Jackson County Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, has been selected as a Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholar. She will serve as a discussion facilitator for the 2010 International Honors Institute, set for June 14-18 at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. During the conference, PTK Faculty Scholars will lead groups of 15-20 Honors students in seminar discussions of the issues presented throughout the week.
Twenty-four Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) chapter advisers were chosen nationwide; Sison was the only adviser chosen from Mississippi. At the Jackson County Campus, she is PTK Pi Epsilon Chapter adviser, as well as adviser for the Honors College. In 2009, she won the Distinguished Chapter Adviser Award from PTK International.
Faculty Scholars were selected based on applications judged on knowledge of the current Honors Study topic, "The Democratization of Information: Power, Peril, and Promise," and demonstrated excellence in teaching.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in higher education, with 1,250 chapters on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than 2 million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
