Kathleen C. Tice Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Literacy Grant

2013 Jul 3

Kathleen C. Tice recently was awarded a 2013 Literacy Grant by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi--the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Tice is one of 14 recipients nationwide to receive the award.

The grant will be used to support the Open Door Preschool Project. As part of this service-learning project, students at The University of Texas at Arlington read aloud weekly to children who attend the Open Door Preschool, which serves English learning children from low-income families. The project takes place during two semesters and includes a family literacy celebration where each child is given a tote bag that contains the books that were read aloud.

The Phi Kappa Phi Literacy Grant program was initiated in 2003 to provide funding to Phi Kappa Phi chapters and active members for ongoing projects or new initiatives that reinforce part of the Society's mission "to engage the community of scholars in service to others." Drawing from a multi-disciplinary Society of students and scholars from large and small institutions, applicants are encouraged to consider literacy projects that have creative relevance to their disciplines and to the needs of their communities.

More About Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts annually approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. The Society's mission is "To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others."

For more information about Phi Kappa Phi, please call 800.804.9880 or visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.