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PUTNEY, VT—On February 28 in Portland, ME, the Beta Alpha Epsilon
Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), based at Landmark
College in Putney, Vermont, won three prestigious honors at the New England
Regional PTK
conference: Milestone Award, Pinnacle Award, and Five-Star
Award.
The Milestone Award honors a chapter for its extraordinary accomplishments.
The Pinnacle Award recognizes those chapters that enroll at least ninety
percent of students eligible for membership, or which increase membership
by ten percent overall in successive years. Finally, the Five-Star Award – arguably
the most prestigious award - is given to chapters for achievements in
each of four hallmark areas: leadership, scholarship, fellowship, and
service.
Begun in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa is the largest and oldest honor society
in the United States and is specifically for two-year college students.
Phi Theta Kappa expects its scholars to excel in each of the four hallmark
areas listed above, as well as maintaining a 3.5 GPA. This is more remarkable
when you consider Landmark’s impressive mission - to serve only
those with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and other
similar cognitive disabilities. Landmark College students have therefore
competed successfully and excelled among the best two-year college students
in America.
Landmark College is a world leader in higher education, occupying an
exclusive niche as the nation's premier college for high potential students
with learning disabilities and AD/HD. Founded in 1983, and welcoming
its first students in 1985, the College has served thousands of students
with learning differences, nurturing their gifts and providing them with
the language, scholarship, and other skills necessary to academic, career,
and life success.
Our individualized approach to education includes an extraordinary array
of coordinated services, and a low student to faculty ratio. Developed
over nearly two decades of experience, our pedagogical strategies, expert
faculty, and other high-quality services set the standard for educating
students who learn differently. Landmark has proven time and again that
with appropriate teaching methods and equal opportunities, all students
can set high standards, accept great challenges, and achieve impressive
work.
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