Lead the way with Alpha Iota Chi!

Do you have what it takes to lead? Our Alpha Iota Chi chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society seeks officer candidates to lead the highly-decorated chapter into the 2022-2023 academic season.

Alpha Iota Chi holds the coveted Five-Star Chapter with PTK.  The chapter earned numerous state and regional awards for officer leadership and group projects in years past.  The description of the chapter team and officer leadership is listed below.

To submit an application online click the Phi Theta Kappa Officer Application link.

Responsibilities of all officers:

• Work together as a team
• Cooperate with the president to develop a 5-star plan and a calendar for the year
• Attend leadership, scholarship, service, and fellowship opportunities. These include: Chapter Officer and General Meetings (one each per month during the academic year, September-April); Chapter special events, especially the Induction Ceremony for new members in the spring and fall; Tennessee Region Honors in Action Academy (July); Tennessee Region Convention (March); Phi Theta Kappa International Convention (April)
• Attend Honors in Action and College Project planning and development meetings throughout the summer
• Locate member volunteers to help with all tasks of the chapter in order to promote fellowship, service, and leadership within the chapter

 President

• Prepares an agenda for all meetings (both officer and general meetings)
• Presides at all meetings; asks another officer to preside if unable to do so him or herself
• Works with the chapter officers to establish a calendar and a 5-star plan for the year
• Works closely with chapter advisors
• Assists with recruitment of new members and the development of effective communication among chapter members
• Communicates special events, meeting notices, minutes of meetings to chapter members
• Keeps a chronology of all chapter events
• Oversees and coordinates preparation of the Hallmark Awards competition in February, particularly outstanding officers, outstanding member, and outstanding advisor.
• Promote Competitive Edge participation among officers and chapter members

 Vice President of Scholarship 

• Coordinates activities surrounding the honors topic–its study and its implementation in the community
• Coordinates a USA Today Case Study Challenge if the chapter decides to implement this opportunity
• Collects and makes available information about scholarships
• Keeps a chronology of all chapter events related to scholarship
• Presents progress report at the bi-monthly chapter meetings
• Provides the VP of Communication with a brief article about scholarship activities of the chapter prior to the fall and spring newsletters or for chapter face book page
• Oversees and coordinates preparation of the Scholarship portion of the HIA Award Entry

 College Project Chair 

• Coordinates College Project team efforts
• Maintains communication with College Project Advisor
• Leads discussion of college project ideas and records team ideas
• Leads presentation to administration, making initial introductions of the team members and offering members the opportunity to share prepared ideas
• Records administrator’s suggestions/needs
• Leads debriefing after meeting with administrator
• Maintains communication with administrator to follow up on progress
• Collaborates with Vice President of Service to coordinate the implementation of the college Project

Honors in Action Chair 

• Coordinates the Honors in Action team research efforts
• Communicates with research team between meetings re: progress
• Reports progress to President and Vice President of Scholarship
• Introduces team members for research presentations at meetings
• Collaborates with VP of Scholarship to encourage academic excellence
• Opens the floor for questions/comments
• Assures research notes are available on google site

 Vice President of Service

• Coordinates the chapter’s service activities as they relate to HIA and College Projects
• Keeps a chronology of all chapter events related to service
• Presents progress report at every chapter meeting
• Provides VP of Communication with a brief article about service activities prior to the fall and spring newsletters and for inclusion on the chapter Facebook page.
• Oversees and coordinates preparation of the Service portion of the HIA Hallmark entry

 Vice President of Leadership:

• Coordinates activities to foster leadership skills among members and other students (includes working with members to encourage participation in service activities and in scholarship activities); for example, arranges for leadership training workshops with regard to HIA topic and coordinates leadership role responsibilities.
• Keeps a chronology of all chapter events related to leadership
• Presents progress report at every chapter meeting.
• Provides Vice President of Communication with a brief article about leadership activities prior to the fall and spring newsletters and for inclusion in the chapter face book page
• Oversees and coordinates preparation of the Leadership portion of the HIA Hallmark Award Entry

 Secretary

• Takes minutes at all officer and general meetings
• Transcribes minutes/maintains an Honors in Action Journal record of the chapter’s activities
• Sends minutes within one week to the president, Vice President of Communication, and advisors
• Helps prepare the Outstanding Officer Hallmarks.

Treasurer:

• Helps develop and oversee a budget
  • Files signature on appropriate form in Business Office
  • Signs all requests for payment from Club Account
  • Signs all revenue reports that are submitted to the Business Office (revenue from fundraising activities)
• Reports cash flow to members at meetings
• Works closely with officers in charge of fundraising activities
• Works closely with chapter advisor
• Helps prepare the Outstanding Officer Hallmark

Vice President of Fellowship/Historian

•  Organize social events for officer team and chapter
• Coordinates with the secretary; takes meeting minutes in secretary’s absence
• Keeps a narrative record of chapter activities throughout the year (fundraisers; trips; service activities; scholarship activities; leadership activities for inclusion in the HIA Journal) Send to Secretary/Treasurer
• Takes pictures at chapter events and activities (if digital, submits .jpeg files to chapter—via e-mail)
• Provide copies of pictures to VP of Communication
• Provides digital copies of pictures from chapter events to the college’s publicity director, Tom Wilson or Bob Carpenter
• Coordinates chapter’s annual recognition and celebration of the founding of Phi Theta Kappa (November)

Vice-President of Communication/Publicity/Newsletter Chair

• Works closely with all officers in order to distribute relevant information on Face Book Page
• Makes signs for sales and activities
• Sends information to internal resources in a timely fashion: campus news TV, face book page, and to the school’s media director
• Arranges to send information to external resources in a timely fashion: newspapers and other media
• Responsible for putting together information and pictures for Honors face book page

To learn more contact Dr. Jane Honeycutt at jbhoneycutt@northeaststate.edu.