{"id":830,"date":"2018-10-16T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=830"},"modified":"2019-01-14T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:05:46","slug":"ssc-honor-society-inducts-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-honor-society-inducts-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Honor Society Inducts New Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-eight Seminole State College students were inducted into the Alpha Theta Nu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges at the Jeff Johnston Fine Arts Center on Oct. 11.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\" Phi Theta Kappa honor society  group photo\" class=\"wp-image-831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-788x591.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PTK-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>A group of 28 Seminole State College students were inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society at the Jeff Johnston Fine Arts Center on Oct. 11<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Students are selected based on their scholarship, leadership and commitment to community. The chapter provides programs, organizes activities and encourages participation in community service projects.&nbsp;<br>Requirements for membership in the honor society include: enrollment at an accredited two-year college with a Phi Theta Kappa chapter and an overall GPA of 3.5 with a minimum of 12 credit hours completed.&nbsp;<br>SSC Regent Paige Sherry served as the event\u2019s guest speaker. Regent Sherry was appointed to the college in 2017 by Governor Mary Fallin. She previously served as chair of the SSC Educational Foundation. She currently helps operate her family&#8217;s business, Patterson Oil Company, and serves as the mayor of Wewoka.&nbsp;<br>Assistant Professor of Business Jeff Cheng and Social Science Instructor Sam Rivera, who serve as the chapter\u2019s current advisers, were also present at the induction.<br>SSC students inducted at the ceremony (arranged by hometown) were:<br>Ada: Tyler Dean, Kendra Hisaw and Jennifer Odom<br>Bethel Acres: Kristy Lively<br>Dale: Seth Cody<br>Little: Paige Brown and McKenna Hanan<br>McLoud: Christina Lee<br>Prague: Makenzie Sheldon<br>Sasakwa: Chloe Reich<br>Seminole: Tyrese Barlow, Adrienne Foster, Stacey Foster, Brandon Jones, Ryleigh Lane, Sydney Lucas, Brittney Moore and Caleb Peters<br>Shawnee: Hope Burnett, Andrea France, Isaac Harjo and Taryn Washburn<br>Tecumseh: Jenny Chen and Cassidy Morton<br>Toledo, Ohio: Troy Sherman<br>Wetumka: Rand Bray, Levi Henson and Jessica Vallejo-Maxwell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-eight Seminole State College students were inducted into the Alpha Theta Nu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges at the Jeff Johnston Fine Arts Center on Oct. 11.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[50,29],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-campuslife","tag-october-2018","tag-ptk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}