MSJC President Schultz receives national award

Press release from Mt. San Jacinto College:

The national Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society will present Mt. San Jacinto College Superintendent/President Roger Schultz, Ph.D., with the Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction during the Society’s annual convention in Orlando, Florida, this April.

Schultz will receive the award along with 18 other college administrators who were nominated by students at their respective colleges.

“I am truly grateful to receive this prestigious award from an honor society I have long valued and respected,” Schultz said. “I have seen how PTK has positively inspired and transformed the lives of MSJC students, including several who have earned the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship and who I have had the honor of mentoring over the years. To be nominated by MSJC PTK students adds even more value to this award for me. I cannot thank them and PTK enough for this honor.”

PTK is the premier honor society recognizing the academic achievement of students at associate degree-granting colleges and helping them to grow as scholars and leaders. The Society is made up of more than 3.8 million members and nearly 1,300 chapters in 11 countries, with about 240,000 active members in the nation’s colleges.

PTK explained that Dr. Schultz “has shown support of student success initiatives leading to stronger pathways to completion, transfer, and employment” and has “taken an active interest in supporting high-achieving students and developing student leaders on campus.”

“This college president has made it a priority to support student success both inside and outside the classroom,” says PTK President and CEO Dr. Lynn Tincher-Ladner. “This award is special because it comes directly from the students, and it is evidence of the gratitude they feel for the support for them and students like them.”

The Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction is PTK’s most prestigious award for community college presidents and is named in honor of the late Dr. Shirley B. Gordon, PTK’s longest-serving Board of Directors Chair and a founder and longtime president of Highline Community College in Washington.