SCC's Christina Gant Selected as 2012 Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholar

Christina Gant, English instructor at St. Charles Community College, was one of 25 community college instructors chosen from among nearly 3,000 chapter advisors, to serve as Phi Theta Kappa’s 2012 Faculty Scholars.

Christina Gant, English instructor at St. Charles Community College, was chosen to serve as one of Phi Theta Kappa’s 2012 Faculty Scholars.

Gant will attend the annual Faculty Scholar Conference, sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, at Phi Theta Kappa’s Center for Excellence in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 1-5, 2012.

During the conference, the scholars will prepare to serve as facilitators during Phi Theta Kappa’s Honors Institute, to be held in June 2012.

View Phi Theta Kappa’s full news release: http://www.ptk.org/?q=news/media/2012-faculty-scholars.

Gant, of Wentzville, has been an advisor for SCC’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of two-year colleges, since 2003. An SCC alumna, Gant also is a former PTK chapter president. She has a master’s degree in English from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an emphasis in composition, a bachelor’s degree in English from Washington University and a certificate in creative writing from Washington University.

Established in 1986, St. Charles Community College is celebrating 25 years as a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit www.stchas.edu.