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In April 2010 leaders of six national organizations representing the nation's 1,200 community colleges signed The Call to Action, a pledge to increase student completion rates by 50 percent over the next decade. Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society was the only student organization asked to participate.

In October 2010 the first White House Summit on Community Colleges was hosted by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a community college professor. President Obama, philanthropist Melinda Gates and a host of speakers praised community colleges for serving almost half of the nation's college students and playing a pivotal role in educating the workforce.

The President has called for community colleges to produce an additional 5 million degrees and certificates in the next 10 years, part of his goal to restore the United States as the world's leader in college graduates.

Find out more about the Community College Completion Corps here: http://www.cccompletioncorps.org/

College Completion Challenge: A Call to Action

The Alpha Nu Sigma Chapter's College Project in 2010 focused on how student engagement helps to increase the retention rates of students which in turn increases the completion rate of students. Here is a link to the PowerPoint presentatuion given to Horry-Georgetown Technical College faculty and staff during in-service sessions this past fall semester: Getting Involved: Student Engagement Increases Retention