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2006-07 Unopa Cathie Fife Nov 2006

2006-07 Unopa Cathie Fife

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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 7, No. 2 -- Complete Issue Oct 2006

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 7, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Ira Cohen
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “HONORS ADMINISTRATION”
Honors Program Leadership: The Right Stuff -- Rew A. Godow, Jr.
Chaucer, Mountain Hiking, and Honors Program Leadership -- Sam Schuman
Riding a Unicycle Across a Bridge While Juggling: The Musings of an Honors Administrator -- Bonnie D. Irwin
At Play on the Fields of Honor(s) -- Larry Andrews
Success as an Honors Program Director: What Does it Take? -- Bruce Fox
Being There for Honors Leadership -- Lisa L. Coleman
“Ah well! I am their leader; I really ought to …

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Reminiscences On The Evolution Of Honors Leadership, Len Zane Oct 2006

Reminiscences On The Evolution Of Honors Leadership, Len Zane

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Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a hot and sultry Friday night in August. Pardon the redundancy—if it is Las Vegas in August, nights are hot and sultry. Though many diversions beckoned, I decided to check my email before heading to bed for the evening. Sitting in front of the computer with a bowl of ice cream and a glass of cognac, I downloaded Rew A. (“Skip”) Godow Jr.’s 1986 article from the Forum for Honors that was attached to an email from our journal’s enterprising editor, Ada Long. The essay was there as part of Ada’s call for journal submissions …

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Chaucer, Mountain Hiking, And Honors Program Leadership, Sam Schuman Oct 2006

Chaucer, Mountain Hiking, And Honors Program Leadership, Sam Schuman

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The narrator of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde laments that he is no lover himself but only the “servant of love’s servants.” I’m in an analogous position in respect to honors program administration: for the past quarter-century, I’ve been in administrative positions as chief academic officer and as chancellor where I’ve worked with honors directors but not really had daily responsibility for a program myself. In a way this disqualifies me from writing on the topic of honors leadership with (to quote Chaucer again) the authority of experience, at least contemporary experience. On the other hand, it may be useful to …

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Student Outcomes And Honors Programs: A Longitudinal Study Of 172 Honors Students 2000-2004, Frank Shushok Jr. Oct 2006

Student Outcomes And Honors Programs: A Longitudinal Study Of 172 Honors Students 2000-2004, Frank Shushok Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Since this edition of the JNCHC is dedicated to honors administration, it seems appropriate to offer a few introductory remarks about the usefulness of this study. College and university administrators participating in the accreditation process are well aware that assessing student learning is not the passing fad that some had suspected it might be. In the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, for example, administrators are familiar with Core Requirement 2.1—the institution engages in ongoing, integrated, and institution- wide planning and evaluation processes that incorporate systematic review of programs and services (Handbook for reaffirmation of accreditation, 2004). All accreditation bodies …

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Major Forerunners To Honors Education At The Collegiate Level, Anne Rinn Oct 2006

Major Forerunners To Honors Education At The Collegiate Level, Anne Rinn

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In this paper, the author explores the major forerunners of the modern-day honors program as well as the purposes behind the formation of honors programs in the United States. Although given much attention in the 1920s with the work of Frank Aydelotte and again in the 1950s and 1960s with the work of Joseph Cohen, university honors programs and colleges have grown so rapidly over the past few decades that we sometimes forget our origins. By examining the foundations of honors programs, this history allows researchers and administrators to better understand modern honors programs in light of the past.

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A View From The Shoulders, Rosalie Otero Oct 2006

A View From The Shoulders, Rosalie Otero

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

So, you have been asked to administer the honors program at your institution. You have no idea what it means since, for the past fifteen years, you have been teaching three sections of English composition and literature courses each semester. No one tells you that overnight you will have to become a public relations guru, an expert in planning and organization, a specialist in stretching a meager budget, a top-notch communicator and consensus builder, an effective fundraiser, and an authority on honors education.

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Leadership In Honors: What Is The Right Stuff?, George Mariz Oct 2006

Leadership In Honors: What Is The Right Stuff?, George Mariz

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It may come as disappointing news, but as far as honors administrators go the “right stuff” in many ways resembles sound medical practice: there are seldom cases of heroic intervention; good protocols and practices are better formulas for success than sheer talent or the bold stroke; and so good preparation counts for more than genius. A comprehensive essay on an honors administrator’s role in academic leadership, curriculum design, administrative organization and reportage, and other honors desiderata would make a hefty book, and so these brief remarks will address specific but important aspects of administration, faculty recruitment, and student advising.
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Honors Program Leadership: The Right Stuff, Rew Godow Jr. Oct 2006

Honors Program Leadership: The Right Stuff, Rew Godow Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In what follows, I shall discuss six leadership roles that I think generally need to be fulfilled in an honors program. Since the leadership of most honors programs is the responsibility of a single person, the director, this can be thought of as a discussion of the various roles that my ideal honors director would play. Accordingly, the list also can be thought of as a general checklist of things that search committees should look for in candidates for a position as honors director.

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“Ah Well! I Am Their Leader; I Really Ought To Follow Them”: Leading Student Leaders, Keith Garbutt Oct 2006

“Ah Well! I Am Their Leader; I Really Ought To Follow Them”: Leading Student Leaders, Keith Garbutt

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

One of the privileges of being the dean of an honors college or the director of an honors program is that you are allowed to work with some of the brightest, most motivated, and most innovative students in your institution. One of our responsibilities when working with these individuals is to provide them with an environment in which they can develop their skills and potential as leaders. This important element of leadership in honors is one item missing from Rew Godow’s essay. When I was thinking on this topic, a line came to mind from Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera …

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Riding A Unicycle Across A Bridge While Juggling: The Musings Of An Honors Administrator, Bonnie Irwin Oct 2006

Riding A Unicycle Across A Bridge While Juggling: The Musings Of An Honors Administrator, Bonnie Irwin

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

My favorite metaphor for the life of an honors administrator remains that of a plate spinner. Those of us of a certain age remember them from the Ed Sullivan Show: frantically running from pole to pole, these acrobats had to keep the plates spinning so that none would fall crashing to the stage. Meanwhile, in the background, some classical, frenetic piece of music, often Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance, would be playing, faster and faster. Indeed, if a university can be likened to a circus—and many are tempted to do just that— honors administrators are the plate spinners.

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Success As An Honors Program Director: What Does It Take?, Bruce Fox Oct 2006

Success As An Honors Program Director: What Does It Take?, Bruce Fox

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

What does it mean to succeed as an honors director? For the purposes of this discussion, I define the successful honors director as someone who builds an honors program, with “build” having a variety of meanings. In this context, “build” can mean starting a program from the get-go, reinvigorating a dormant program, increasing enrollment in an existing program (without decreasing the program’s value to students), increasing the program’s reputation, increasing its budget or other resources, increasing the value a program has to its university, or most importantly (at least to me) increasing the value of the program to its students. …

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Being There For Honors Leadership, Lisa Coleman Oct 2006

Being There For Honors Leadership, Lisa Coleman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In his 1986 article, “Honors Program Leadership: The Right Stuff,” Rew Godow, Jr., makes a compelling argument for honors program director as Renaissance man or homo universalis, someone who is able to do many things well, undaunted by the fact that his job, like the job of astronauts evoked by Godow’s title, exacts commitment, ability, and sheer guts along with daunting paper work, management and budgeting expertise, the habit of building and maintaining a constituency, and the entrepreneurship required to sell a program.
Looking to my eight-year administrative relationship with the Honors Program of my university, Coordinator for two …

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At Play On The Fields Of Honor(S), Larry Andrews Oct 2006

At Play On The Fields Of Honor(S), Larry Andrews

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Who could argue with Skip Godow’s list of roles and qualities desirable in an ideal honors leader? With appropriate caveats concerning the wide variation in programs and institutional contexts, he envisions well the comprehensive demands of modern-day honors administration, demands that match my experience of over fourteen years as dean of an honors college of 1300 students as I strive imperfectly to embody the qualities he idealizes.
Of course, one might emphasize one of Skip’s points more or less. If an honors administrator is required to perform a number of non-honors university duties, the roles are even more complex. One …

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Editorial Matter For Volume 7, Number 2, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Oct 2006

Editorial Matter For Volume 7, Number 2, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Ira Cohen
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

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2006-07 Unopa Keys To Professionalism Sep 2006

2006-07 Unopa Keys To Professionalism

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Resisting Power And Influence: A Case Study In Virtue Ethics, Daniel R. Vasgird Jun 2006

Resisting Power And Influence: A Case Study In Virtue Ethics, Daniel R. Vasgird

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This is a case study based on the author’s experience while serving as an ethics committee (IRB) chair in New York City. It addresses the issues of power and coercion as they apply to the human research participants protection process. It primarily focuses on the power imbalance that can exist between research participants and their IRB advocates on the one hand and the research institutions, funding agencies, and investigators with their unlimited resources on the other. IRB Chairs and IRB leaders must be fire-walled from conflicts of interest arising not just from financial factors but from factors related to power, …

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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 7, No. 1 -- Complete Issue Apr 2006

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 7, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Susanna Finnell
Letter to the Editor -- Jay Freyman
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HONORS”
Saving Honors in the Age of Standardization -- Linda Frost
Using Learning Outcomes Assessment in Honors as a Defense Against Proposed Standardized Testing -- Steffen Wilson
Documenting the Achievements of Our Students without Compromising Excellence -- Jean Sorensen
Honors Assessment and Evaluation -- Cheryl Achterberg
When It’s Bad Cess to Assess! -- Jay Freyman
Accountable to Whom? Assessment for What? -- George Mariz
Business and Educational Values -- Jeffrey A. Portnoy …

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They Graduated, Joan Digby Apr 2006

They Graduated, Joan Digby

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Linda Frost’s essay, “Saving Honors in the Age of Standardization,” has many saving graces of its own. It is direct, honest and about as optimistic as we have any right to be. Even her title acknowledges that there is at least some chance of saving honors from the number crunchers and their lingo. I’d be right there with the woman who rolled her eyes and exclaimed “We’re just sick of it” if I hadn’t managed to steer clear of the measurement folk and their instruments of inquisition all these years.

I can remember the moment that I staged my first …

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Saving Honors In The Age Of Standardization, Linda Frost Apr 2006

Saving Honors In The Age Of Standardization, Linda Frost

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Iwent to my first National Collegiate Honors Council conference just this last year and was sitting in a session on national scholarships when the phrase “learning outcomes” came up. I turned to the woman behind me with whom I’d been briefly chatting before the session began and asked if this kind of evaluative structure was being implemented at her university.

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Honors Assessment And Evaluation, Cheryl Achterberg Apr 2006

Honors Assessment And Evaluation, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I am currently leading a college where our vision is simply “Expanding Human Potential.” That vision perfectly encapsulates my personal value set for education as well. I believe that expanding human potential is also the business of honors education. And because I believe so firmly in this concept, I shall go on record supporting assessment and evaluation in honors education as well as general education.
As an administrative leader I need to make daily decisions about what will serve my college, my students, and my faculty well. Some of those decisions are internally motivated, internally addressed, and relatively unknown beyond …

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Using Learning Outcomes Assessment In Honors As A Defense Against Proposed Standardized Testing, Steffen Wilson Apr 2006

Using Learning Outcomes Assessment In Honors As A Defense Against Proposed Standardized Testing, Steffen Wilson

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Learning outcomes assessment (LOA) is the self-assessment of self-created learning goals for students at the class, department, college, and university level. In higher education, LOA is being imposed upon us by our accrediting bodies (Eaton, Fryshman, Hope, Scanlon, & Crow, 2005; Lingenfelter & Lenth, 2005; Nichols, 1991, 1995; Wergin, 2005). This is difficult for us because LOA is not a part of the university culture, and there are very few people on most campuses skilled in the implementation of LOA. There is also very little in the way of release time and other resources that are being provided to implement …

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Creating An Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach, Nancy Stanlick Apr 2006

Creating An Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach, Nancy Stanlick

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

To become an honors student (that is, to be accepted into an honors college or program) requires satisfying specific entrance requirements, most or all of which are directly related to a student’s grade point average and potential for success in a rigorous academic environment. To gain entrance into and be present in an organization or community are not sufficient, however, to characterize a person as a complete member of it. There is more to community membership than simple presence. To be a member of a community is also to perform actions and develop or possess traits of character consistent with …

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Business And Educational Values, Jeffrey Portnoy Apr 2006

Business And Educational Values, Jeffrey Portnoy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In “Saving Honors in the Age of Standardization,” Linda Frost astutely observes the confluence of two disturbing trends in higher education that are generating a current so deep and swift that one wonders if resistance is possible: the business model for education and the standardization of educational processes, especially through testing. Hardly an issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education appears without an article or discussion featuring business practices or business leaders dominating the landscape of this or that college or university. Rarely does a meeting with or missive from an administrator not include some element directly connected to one …

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Accountable To Whom? Assessment For What?, George Mariz Apr 2006

Accountable To Whom? Assessment For What?, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Can there be anyone in the honors community or higher education who has not been assaulted by campus assessment initiatives in the recent past or the present? The current agitation surrounding this topic is equaled only by the absence of clear ideas about the purpose or utility of assessment. While assessment’s proponents believe that its aims and virtues are obvious, most of the academic community is either vexed or bemused by the whole thing. How has higher education arrived at this juncture, and where are we going in regard to assessment? I will try to give some answers to these …

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Building A City Of Ladies With Christine De Pizan And Arkansas State University Honors Students, Frances Malpezzi Apr 2006

Building A City Of Ladies With Christine De Pizan And Arkansas State University Honors Students, Frances Malpezzi

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In “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” Adrienne Rich—American poet, feminist, and social critic—expressed exhilaration and confusion in being alive “in a time of awakening consciousness” (18). Self-knowledge, Rich emphasized, eludes us until we recognize and question the basic assumptions that shape our perspectives. Re-visioning is an important part of this process. For Rich, re-visioning is not the meticulous correcting of our comma splices and dangling modifiers but “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction” (18). The task Rich set before herself is not just the …

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Honors As Skunkworks, Paul Strong Apr 2006

Honors As Skunkworks, Paul Strong

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For the Fall/Winter 2005 issue of the JNCHC, Dail W. Mullins, Jr. was asked to address the question, “What is Honors?” He “began by researching several dozen honors program websites from around the country and came to the quick realization that their various program descriptions all seem to be ‘cut from the same cloth’ and might very well have been produced by an ‘Honors Program Description Generator.’” This sentence was the first nudge I needed, and Linda Frost’s essay was the second, to write something I’d long been thinking about but was reluctant to state publicly: I believe the …

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Documenting The Achievements Of Our Students Without Compromising Excellence, Jean Sorensen Apr 2006

Documenting The Achievements Of Our Students Without Compromising Excellence, Jean Sorensen

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

When questions arise about the quality and costs of higher education, honors educators, administrators, and students are best positioned to provide answers. When national groups report data questioning the achievement of our graduates, are we willing to be held accountable? Are we even in a position to provide evidence that our students have not only achieved some minimal level of competency but also excelled by exploring challenging issues central in our society, our disciplines, our nation’s workforce, our government, and the international arena?

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The Impact Of K-12 Gifted Programs On Postsecondary Honors Programming, Jennifer Lane Apr 2006

The Impact Of K-12 Gifted Programs On Postsecondary Honors Programming, Jennifer Lane

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

While not all students entering a post-secondary honors program have previously participated in gifted programming, honors programming in theory begins through gifted services in elementary schools and later culminates in honors colleges and honors programs at post-secondary institutions. However, a review of participants in these programs suggests that the population is not consistent through the various levels of the educational system. Studies indicate that gifted services and the participating population change in middle school and/or high school when programming shifts from gifted to honors. Related to these shifts are misconceptions and mistaken assumptions that often correlate to a lowering of …

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Editorial Matter For Volume 7, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Apr 2006

Editorial Matter For Volume 7, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Susanna Finnell
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

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