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CCCUA Student Receives Scholarship from Phi Theta Kappa
09 November 2004
DE QUEEN – Tamara Whitlow, a student at Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, has been awarded a $250 scholarship and a spot on the National Dean’s List as a result of her membership in Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges. Whitlow is a resident of Foreman. Whitlow is the first recipient of this scholarship from CCCUA. Fifty scholarship recipients were chosen from a pool of 25,000 applicants.
Whitlow is currently in her second year pursuing an Associate of Arts degree at CCCUA. She is also taking pre-requisite classes prior to entering the UAMS College of Nursing at Hope, where she will pursue a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
Two-year college students earning membership in Phi Theta Kappa are nominated for inclusion in the national Dean’s List, a biographical publication recognizing the academic and leadership accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate students. Fifty new members of Phi Theta Kappa are selected each year to receive National Dean’s List Scholarships.
Phi Theta Kappa, the largest honor society in American higher education, includes some 1,200 chapters on two-year college campuses in all 50 states, Canada, Germany and U.S. territorial possessions abroad. Approximately 100,000 honor students are inducted into membership each year. The Society provides its members programming in the areas of scholarship, leadership and service, and promotes civic engagement.
The Center for Excellence, Phi Theta Kappa’s International Headquarters, is located in Jackson, Mississippi.
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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