{"id":4534,"date":"2020-02-04T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:18:17","slug":"spc-president-honored-as-the-2020-phi-theta-kappa-paragon-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2020\/02\/04\/spc-president-honored-as-the-2020-phi-theta-kappa-paragon-president\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC President honored as a 2020 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Paragon President!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SPC President Tonjua Williams<\/a> for being named a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptk.org\/\">Phi Theta Kappa<\/a> (PTK) Paragon President! This award recognizes new college presidents, CEOs and chancellors for their outstanding support of student success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams was nominated by chapter members with SPC\u2019s Seminole Campus chapter of PTK, Beta Theta Omega. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI&#8217;m honored to be named a PTK Paragon\nPresident this year,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThis award is especially meaningful to me\nbecause the recipients are student-nominated, and I cannot thank PTK students\nenough for their hard work and campus leadership. Their dedication to making\nsure that all of their peers are Titan strong is truly admirable. I&#8217;m happy to\nsupport such a wonderful group of student leaders!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phi Theta Kappa is an International Honor Society for two-year colleges. SPC has five chapters, located at the Seminole, St. Petersburg\/Gibbs, Clearwater and Tarpon Campuses, as well as one at the Health Education Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PTK Adviser Kelly Rich said Williams\u2019 impact on PTK has been\nextraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the last two years, she has spent time blending her chapters and truly showcasing how integral PTK is to the student success of St. Petersburg College,\u201d Rich said. \u201cShe is continually working on initiatives to promote the growth of Phi Theta Kappa on all campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President and CEO of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Dr. Lynn Tincher-Ladner celebrated Williams&#8217;s commitment to student leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI applaud you for taking an active interest in the leadership development of your Phi Theta Kappa students,\u201d Tincher-Ladner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams will be honored at PTK\u2019s annual convention in April at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center near Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to SPC President Tonjua Williams for being named a 2020 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Paragon President! This award recognizes new college presidents, CEOs and chancellors for their outstanding support of student success. Williams was nominated by chapter members with SPC\u2019s Seminole Campus chapter of PTK, Beta Theta Omega. \u201cI&#8217;m honored to be named a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-spc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}