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Transformational Experience Through Liberation Pedagogy: A Critical Look At Honors Education, John Mihelich, Debbie Storrs, Patrick Pellett

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the students’ ethnographic study. Liberation pedagogy framed the critical questions addressed in the ethnographic study exploring how students in honors programs make sense of their academic selves and their honors program. We emphasize student-researcher findings concerning status and elitism among honors participants …

The Irrelevance Of Sat In Honors?, Sriram Khe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The Honors Program at Western Oregon University is like most other programs when it comes to admission: we have established minimum requirements for SAT/ACT scores and high school GPAs. Over the last couple of years that I have been directing the program, I have consistently and incrementally raised these requirements. At the same time, I have been increasingly intrigued by one question: do these minimum requirements really matter? If high school GPAs and SAT scores are used as measures of students when they enter the university and the Honors Program, then how do these students measure up to comparable metrics …

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss In A Renascent Honors Program, Mike Davis

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Iwork at Cameron University, a regional institution in Oklahoma that will be celebrating its centennial in 2008. Our administrators see the revivification of the Cameron University Honors Program as an important component of their “Centennial Plan,” and they have appointed me to make that revivification happen.

I benefited greatly from reviewing Dean Sederberg’s observations concerning the South Carolina Honors College. Initially, I suspected that his insights would be primarily useful for those in charge of far more developed programs than the one I have been tasked with directing, but from the moment I encountered his warning against “‘biggering’ for the …

Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, And Higher Education Administration, Ira Cohen

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

While Peter Sederberg starts his description of managing growth with a quotation from Kenneth Boulding, I prefer to start with lines from Robert Burns’ “To a Louse”: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us!”

I think it is fair to say that, at the time Peter took over the program at the University of South Carolina, the national honors movement had, for the first time, reached some consensus about what honors and the National Collegiate Honors Council were vis-à-vis higher education. This was accomplished with the crafting of the “Basic Characteristics …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2007, New England Faculty Development Consortium

NEFDC Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Judy Miller, Clark University

From the editors - Tom Thibodeau, New England Institute of Technology, and Jeanne Albert, Castleton State College

NEFDC Fall Conference, Friday, November 9, 2007, Worcester, Massachusetts; theme: Engaged Learning: Fostering Student Success; keynote speaker: George Kuh, Indiana University

Engaged Learning: The Foundation for Student Success, Note from our Fall Conference Keynote Speaker - George Kuh, Indiana University

Fall Conference Agenda

Learning Through Community Engagement - Kevin R. Kearney, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Reciprocal Mentoring - Mathew L. Ouellett and Susan E. McKenna, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Helpful …

Koinonia, Jolene Cassellius, Shannon Schans, Brian Powell, Glen Kinoshita, Michael Santarosa, Carol Harding, Ryan K. Giffin, Jesse Brown

Koinonia

Spotlight Feature
Thinking Globally in a Local Context, Jolene Cassellius

Family and Balance, Shannon Schans

Cultivating Philanthropy in the Co-Curriculum: An Alternative to the Narcissism of the iGeneration, Brian Powell

Interview
The Ministry of Reconciliation: A Conversation with Brenda Salter McNeil, Glen Kinoshita

Thinking Theologically
Thought About Thinking Lately? How About Thinking Christianly?, Michael Santarosa

Book Review
Hush: Moving From Silence to Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse, reviewed by Carol Harding

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom, reviewed by Ryan K. Giffin

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity, reviewed by …

Pod Network News, Fall 2007

POD Network News

No abstract provided.

Prism #25, October 2007, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of An Adult Education Technology Program, Iwasan D. Kejawa Ed.D

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the adult education technology program at a chartered alternative adult education center in Florida. The adult education center had a low rate of students passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). This study examined the impact of the use of computer technology in an effort to improve student learning in mathematics, reading, and science. Computers at the institution were used by all students for tutorials to prepare them for the FCAT and to obtain a high school diploma. The research questions for this study were as follows: 1. Is the education technology …

Ua3/9/5 Hardoptimism Deep Strengths Survey, Wku Institutional Research, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Results of HardOptimism Deep Strengths Survey conducted by WKU's Office of Institutional Research used by WKU president Gary Ransdell in his fall 2008 convocation speech. It compares 2006 and 2007 results regarding organizational resilience, confidence, energy, creativity, innovation, attitudes and ambition.

Instruction Cost Report, Fall 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Shows the costs associated with running the University of Northern Iowa broken down by college and department

Ua77/1 Wku Spirit, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Richard Ewald – Society of 1906
• Ransdell, Gary. One Big Leap
• The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science in Kentucky
• Photographer Finishes Third in Hearst Competition – Jonathan Woods
• Richard Miller Appointed First Chief Diversity Officer
• WKU Wins CASE WealthEngine Award
• Russell Athletic WKU Official Team Apparel
• Houchens Industries Gives $5 Million for WKU Stadium Project: WKU Add Houchens to Stadium Name
• Regents Approve $314.6 Million Budget
• Dean Kahler to Lead Enrollment Management
• Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Competes Nationally
• Emergency Management: WKU’s Crisis Management Plan
• We Remember – Virginia Tech University Massacre
• Love …

"Man Who Saved A Million Yiddish Books" Speaks Oct. 9, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

September 28, 2007 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate September 28, 2007 Approved Minutes

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, September 27, 2007, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Meeting Summary, September 26, 2007, Uno Strategic Planning Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Meeting Summary, September 26, 2007.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding retreat, voter registration, plus/minus grading and legislation.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding undergraduate academic policies, Project Graduate, Quality Matters and Green Toppers.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 25, 2007 meeting.

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding faculty regent election, committee assignments, enrollment, graduate council, ombudsman and faculty evaluations.

Homecoming/Family Weekend Features Football, Music, Films And Fun Oct. 5-7, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

A Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected African American Students Toward Leadership & Black Greek Letter Organizations, Elora L. Crump

Theses and Dissertations

The participants in this study consisted of 76 African-American students at Rowan University in the spring 2005 semester. The purpose of the study was to replicate the research of Kimbrough (1995) exploring the attitudes of two groups of selected African American students regarding the impact of Black Greek organizations on the development of personal leadership. Subjects completed a survey indicating their level of leadership skills and activities, attitudes of Black Greek organizations and their leadership, along with demographic information. Members of Black Greek organizations (BGOs) and-non-members were compared to determine if there were attitudinal differences. The information collected from the …

2007-09-20, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding organizational aid, mock primary, voter registration, retreat and building renovations.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 18, 2007 meeting.

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.