Five Turner College Students Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi

Congratulations to Turner College students who were recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. This group includes Michael Pressly, Jennifer Stone, Elizabeth Chess, Latoria Akins-Jackson and Cory Williams. Pressly is scheduled to receive a BBA in business administration in May. Two of these, Stone and Chess, are staff members in the Turner College and graduate students at CSU. Stone is scheduled to receive a master's degree in cybersecurity management from the TSYS School next month. Chess, a member of the Chi Chi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, is pursuing a master's degree in clinical mental health. Atkins-Jackson, who holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa where she was Treasurer for the Black Student Union, is a student in the Turner College's MSOL program.

     The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study, and to promote the "unity and democracy of education." It is the fourth academic society in the United States to be organized around recognizing academic excellence, and it is the oldest all-discipline honor society. Membership is by invitation only, by an established campus chapter, and is restricted to students with integrity and high ethical standards and who are ranked scholastically in the top of their class, regardless of field of study: the top 7.5 percent of second-semester university juniors and the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also might be eligible. Phi Kappa Phi claims to have over 100,000 active members, to initiate approximately 30,000 new members annually, and to have a total of more than one million members since its creation, from over 300 college-based chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.