{"id":2621,"date":"2020-04-03T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallmarkawadev.wpengine.com\/?page_id=2621"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:47","slug":"distinguished-chapter-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/?page_id=2621","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Chapter Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tDISTINGUISHED CHAPTER AWARDS\t<\/h1>\n\t<h3>Chapters must submit entries for both the <a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/?page_id=2614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honors in Action Project<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/?page_id=2618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Project Award<\/a> to be considered for a Distinguished Chapter Award. Selection is based entirely on the written submissions for these Hallmark Awards, with scores from both categories weighted equally to determine overall rankings. The Top 50 chapters receive Distinguished Chapter recognition.<\/h3>\n<h3>Chapters that achieve Distinguished Chapter status for three or more consecutive years are instead honored with the <a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/?page_id=2591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beta Alpha Continued Excellence Award<\/a>.<\/h3>\n\t<strong>Alpha Delta Omega Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nGlen Oaks Community College<br \/>\nCentreville, Michigan\n<strong>Alpha Epsilon Nu Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nBishop State Community College<br \/>\nMobile, Alabama\n<strong>Alpha Epsilon Upsilon Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nPasco-Hernando State College<br \/>\nNew Port Richey, Florida\n<strong>Alpha Iota Chi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nNortheast State Community College<br \/>\nBlountville, Tennessee\n<strong>Alpha Kappa Alpha Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nNormandale Community College<br \/>\nBloomington, Minnesota\n<strong>Alpha Lambda Sigma Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nHolmes Community College &#8211; Ridgeland<br \/>\nRidgeland, Mississippi\n<strong>Alpha Mu Chi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nNortheast Texas Community College<br \/>\nMount Pleasant, Texas\n<strong>Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nMt. San Antonio College<br \/>\nWalnut, California\n<strong>Alpha Omega Mu Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nIrvine Valley College<br \/>\nIrvine, California\n<strong>Alpha Pi Theta Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nBrookdale Community College<br \/>\nLincroft, New Jersey\n<strong>Alpha Psi Sigma Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nSpringfield Technical Community College<br \/>\nSpringfield, Massachusetts\n<strong>Alpha Rho Tau Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nIvy Tech Community College &#8211; Columbus<br \/>\nColumbus, Indiana\n<strong>Alpha Sigma Alpha Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nDe Anza College<br \/>\nCupertino, California\n<strong>Alpha Upsilon Chi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nCentral New Mexico Community College<br \/>\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico\n<strong>Alpha Xi Pi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nMotlow State Community College<br \/>\nLynchburg, Tennessee\n<strong>Alpha Xi Tau Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nSurry Community College<br \/>\nDobson, North Carolina\n<strong>Alpha Zeta Eta Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nDallas College &#8211; North Lake<br \/>\nIrving, Texas\n<strong>Alpha Zeta Omicron Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nDallas College &#8211; Cedar Valley<br \/>\nLancaster, Texas\n\t<strong>Beta Delta Omicron Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nTarrant County College &#8211; Southeast<br \/>\nArlington, Texas\n<strong>Beta Epsilon Mu Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nSouth Texas College<br \/>\nMcAllen, Texas\n<strong>Beta Kappa Iota Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nMiami Dade College &#8211; Padr\u00f3n<br \/>\nMiami, Florida\n<strong>Beta Zeta Mu Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nWestern Iowa Tech Community College<br \/>\nSioux City, Iowa\n<strong>Eta Tau Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nOdessa College<br \/>\nOdessa, Texas\n<strong>Gamma Omicron Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nKilgore College<br \/>\nKilgore, Texas\n<strong>Iota Xi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nUCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ<br \/>\nCranford, New Jersey\n<strong>Iota Zeta Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nNortheast Mississippi Community College<br \/>\nBooneville, Mississippi\n<strong>Kappa Nu Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Central Florida<br \/>\nOcala, Florida\n<strong>Lambda Iota Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nOlive-Harvey College<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois\n<strong>Lambda Pi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nWestern Nebraska Community College<br \/>\nScottsbluff, Nebraska\n<strong>Omega Sigma Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nHouston City College<br \/>\nHouston, Texas\n<strong>Pi Epsilon Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nMississippi Gulf Coast Community College &#8211; Jackson County<br \/>\nGautier, Mississippi\n<strong>Psi Eta Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nDallas College &#8211; Eastfield<br \/>\nMesquite, Texas\n<strong>Psi Psi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nBrazosport College<br \/>\nLake Jackson, Texas\n<strong>Rho Chi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nTarrant County College &#8211; South<br \/>\nFort Worth, Texas\n<strong>Theta Omega Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nWilbur Wright College<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois\n<strong>Upsilon Pi Chapter<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn A. Logan College<br \/>\nCarterville, Illinois\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISTINGUISHED CHAPTER AWARDS Chapters must submit entries for both the Honors in Action Project and College Project Award to be considered for a Distinguished Chapter Award. Selection is based entirely on the written submissions for these Hallmark Awards, with scores from both categories weighted equally to determine overall rankings. The Top 50 chapters receive Distinguished &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/?page_id=2621\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distinguished Chapter Awards<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"disabled","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkawards.ptk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}