Phi Theta Kappa Volunteers for Literacy / Better World Books Drive

Northeast Mississippi Community College Phi Theta Kappa officers Brent Johnson (l) and Ben Tucker of Booneville recently packaged books for shipping to Better World Books. For the past three years, Northeast’s Iota Zeta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has participated in the Better World Books Book Drive with a semi-annual book drive during exam week at the end of each semester. The books collected are purchased by Better World Books, which supports the National Center for Family Literacy, and organization that helps people learn to read. Members solicited donations from students during spring book buy-back at the college’s bookstore by encouraging students to donate books that were no longer being used and/or ones that they were getting little returns on. Northeast students donated some 500 books.

Northeast’s Iota Zeta chapter was recently named a Top 100 chapter and was recognized as a five-star chapter, the highest rating awarded. Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, 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 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 two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually. Recognized by the American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa is the official honor society of two-year colleges.