Chapter Activities

Honor Topic Seminars

Join us for lectures, discussions and presentations surrounding our Honors Topic, “The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges and Consequences.”

Adopt-A-Highway

Help us keep our community clean! Sigma Phi and the Colorado Department of Transportation team up to maintain a two-mile segment of highway. Trash pickups are scheduled for spring and fall. Look for more information bulletin boards, televisions and the MyACC Sigma Phi group.

Read to Me Program

Spend 20 minutes back in pre-school or elementary school reading to children in the ACC Child Care Center. Contact Mary Foster at 303.797.5678 or mary.foster@arapahoe.edu.

Relay for Life

Sigma Phi heads a team of volunteers every August to raise money and participate in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life summer event. Join our team and help fight cancer.

Aluminum Can Recycling

Look for our blue recycling bins here on campus. Proceeds go to support our society’s events.

Phi Theta Kappa Book Sale

Love to read? Encourage your friends to buy books from our ongoing Book Sale.

Better World Books Drive

Donate “gently used” old textbooks to the Phi Theta KappaBetter World Book Drive. Collected books are sent to Africa to help educate students who have no other way of obtaining textbooks.

Drop your old texts in the collection boxes outside of the Phi Theta Kappa office and outside the Bookstore. If you have a big stack of texts email erica.hastert@arapahoe.edu to have the books picked up.

The Honors Study Topic

Our current topic was conceived by the Honors Committee at the International Phi Theta Kappa Headquarters. Topics are created to be timely, thought provoking and inter-disciplinary.

The focus of the 2008 – 2010 Honors Topic is The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges and Consequences. This subject brings important current issues to the fore and encourages Phi Theta Kappans to examine how these issues affect their lives. We plan activities that allow us and the ACC community to explore this complex theme.

Members of our chapter also have enjoyed study in regional conferences and the annual Honors Institute, a seminar held every June. Members of our chapter have attended this conference every year for more than 10 years.

The 2009 International Honors Institute took place at the University of Richmond. Lisa Hardman., Kyle Riffle, Angela Weissmueller, Erika Christiansen, and our Advisor Erica Hastert attended this conference.