Gant will attend the annual Faculty Scholar Conference, sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, at Phi Theta Kappa's Center for Excellence in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 1-5, 2012.
During the conference, the scholars will prepare to serve as facilitators during Phi Theta Kappa's Honors Institute, to be held in June 2012.
View Phi Theta Kappa's full news release: http://www.ptk.org/?q=news/media/2012-faculty-scholars.
Gant, of Wentzville, has been an advisor for SCC's chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of two-year colleges, since 2003. An SCC alumna, Gant also is a former PTK chapter president. She has a master's degree in English from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an emphasis in composition, a bachelor's degree in English from Washington University and a certificate in creative writing from Washington University.
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