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Sola Scarab Workers Symposium 2004, Andrew Smith

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah. Sunday, 14 November 2004

Papers: Mapping patterns of beta-diversity for beetles across the western Amazon Basin: the Ceratocanthidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Terry Erwin, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution
Fine leg morphology: could it be one step toward a more natural classification of Scarabaeinae? François Génier, Canadian Museum of Nature
Revision of the southern South American Glaphyridae. Shauna Hawkins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Allidiostomatinae and Aclopinae: tales of mystery and imagination from the Southern Hemisphere. Federico Ocampo, Mary Liz Jameson, University of Nebraska- Lincoln and David Hawks, University of California-Riverside
New World Aphodiinae: …

Women In Honors Education: The Case Of Western Washington University, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This essay is concerned with women and their educational experience in an Honors Program, and with their educational choices. It deals briefly with the history of women in higher education in the Western world and in the light of this history compares WWU Honors women with historical trends, with men and women students in the institution, and with students nationally in terms of major choices and career aspirations. It is not an attempt to view Honors women’s education comprehensively nor to look at WWU women along side Honors women more generally. In fact, it is not possible to do so, …

Editorial Matter For Volume 5, 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 Bernice Braid
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

The Impact Of Honors Programs On Undergraduate Academic Performance, Retention, And Graduation, John Cosgrove

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This study examines the academic performance, retention, and degree-completion rates of two groups of honors students, those who completed all their honors program requirements (honors completers; n = 30) versus those students who started off in honors programs but did not complete these program requirements (partial honors students; n = 82). These two sets of honors students are then compared to a third group of similar students, those who had comparable pre-college academic credentials as the honors students, but who did not participate in an honors program (called high-ability students; n = 108). These three student groups entered three Pennsylvania …

Assessing Learning Style Differences Between Honors And Non-Honors Students, Scott Carnicom, Michael Clump

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

What defines an “honors” student and what key differences, if any, exist between honors and non-honors students? One obvious difference exists in measures of academic achievement; college honors students, by virtue of typical admission criteria, have higher GPA’s and standardized test scores (Long & Lange, 2002). Consistent with these higher academic credentials, honors students have often been described as more autonomous, more responsible, and more motivated (Grangaard, 2003; Orban & Chalifoux, 2002; Palmer & Wohl, 1972). Additionally, honors students tend to demonstrate to a greater degree many behaviors that positively correlate with academic performance, such as skipping class less often, …

Ethics On An Honors College Campus: An Analysis Of Attitudes And Behaviors Of Honors Versus Non-Honors Students, Heather Blythe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Since cheating, or academic dishonesty, has appeared to increase over the years, it is important to observe the “new” forms of cheating present within higher learning institutions. Earlier studies have shown conflicting evidence regarding the deterrence rate of an honor code system in higher learning institutions. This study looked at the Honors and non-Honors students’ beliefs and actions regarding the honor code, the internet, and suspect cheating behaviors. Surprisingly 81 (75%) students, both Honors and non- Honors, did not believe that the honor code prevents cheating, contrary to most literature. One other area of interest dealt with the internet and …

Emotional Intelligence And The Honors Student, Laird Edman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Over the past decade the construct of emotional intelligence has captured the public imagination and become a hot topic in the popular media. While the extravagant claims for the importance of emotional intelligence have little empirical support, evidence has been growing for the existence of the construct. This study is an attempt to relate emotional intelligence to the decision of first-year college students to enroll in an honors program.

A measure of emotional intelligence was devised made up of four different Likert-type scales measuring different components of the construct. These scales were administered to 72 freshman students at a selective, …

Qualities Honours Students Look For In Faculty And Courses, Marca V.C. Wolfensberger

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The main research questions that we answer in this article are: What are characteristics of honors students and how do they value teachers and courses? Does our theory-based learning context, which is supportive of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, actually correspond to the preferences of our honors students?

Academic And Social Effects Of Living In Honors Residence Halls, Anne Rinn

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The impact of the residential environment in theories of college student development is often emphasized. Many researchers have studied the effects of on-campus living versus off-campus living, generally finding that living in residence halls is positively associated with both academic and social development. However, the study of gifted college students living in an honors residence hall is rarely addressed. This article examines the possible academic and social effects of living in an honors residence hall. Implications are discussed.

Creating A Culture Of Conducive Communication In Honors Seminars, Anne Marie Merline

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In his book “The Courage to Teach,” Parker Palmer discusses the various roles of the teacher in the college classroom. One facet he speaks about is the power that teachers possess: “teachers possess the power to create conditions that can help students learn a great deal.” I believe teachers who are student-centered know this and carry this out to the best of their ability. One issue that I agree with, but other instructors reject, is another point that Parker Palmer embraces. He also contends that “we must talk to each other about our inner lives. The lives of the students …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 5, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Bernice Braid
Editor’s Introduction -- Dail Mullins

THE PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF HONORS
Emotional Intelligence and the Honors Student -- Laird R. O. Edman and Sally Oakes Edman
Ethics on an Honors College Campus: An Analysis of Attitudes and Behaviors of Honors versus Non-Honors Students -- Heather L. Blythe
Assessing Learning Style Differences Between Honors and Non-Honors Students -- Scott Carnicom and Michael Clump
The Impact of Honors Programs on Undergraduate Academic Performance, Retention and Graduation -- John R. Cosgrove
Qualities Honours Students are Looking for in Faculty and Courses -- Marca …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 15, Number 2, Fall 2004, New England Faculty Development Consortium

NEFDC Exchange

Contents

Message from the President: The College is My Classroom - Thomas Edwards, Thomas College

Review of Robert Boice: Advice for New Faculty Members—Nihil nimus - Eric Kristensen, University of Ottawa

From the editors, Sue Barrett, Boston College, and Susan Pasquale, UMass Medical School

From Nepal to Iceland and Back Distance Learning Characteristics of Two Cultures - Karen A. Lemone, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Building Community with Technology - Elise Martin, Middlesex Community College, and Charles Kaminski, Berkshire Community College

Two Hours and Fifteen Minutes - Tom Thibodeau, New England Institute of Technology

Elections to NEFDC Board

Learning Disabilities in Higher …

Pod Network News, Fall 2004

POD Network News

President's Column

POD's Strategic Planning Activities

POD Core Committee Self-Nomination

TIA Call for Manuscripts

Bright Idea Awards 2004 Call for Submissions

POD Represented at Two International Conferences

POD Conference Corner

An Invitation for POD Members to Participate in a National R & D Project

Other Conferences

Why Professors Don't Change

POD Network Grant Program 2004-2005 Call for Proposals

New Faces and Places

Books by POD Members

Newsletter Deadline

Connecting with POD

POD Core Committee Self-Nomination Instructions

Contacting the POD Office

29th Annual Conference: The POD Network

To Improve the Academy Reviewer Self-Nomination Form

POD Bright Idea Award 2004 Application Instructions …

Pod Network News, Spring/Summer 2004

POD Network News

President's Column

Thanks, Laura!

Grant Recipients

Certificates of Special Achievement

TIA Call for Manuscripts

Bright Idea Awards 2004 Call for Submissions

International Spotlight

International Connection

POD Conference Items

Other Conferences

New Faces and Places

Kudos

Books by POD Members

Reflections: Essay on Teaching Excellence

From the POD Office

POD Travel Grants

Newsletter Deadline

Connecting with POD

Contacting the POD Office

The National Teaching and Learning Forum: Did You Know We're Engaged?

Course Portfolio For Nres 311: Wildlife Ecology And Management, Larkin A. Powell

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

The main objectives of this portfolio are to: (1) continue to refine the course through the required documentation of connections between course goals and course activities, (2) document the efficacy of teaching techniques, and (3) serve as a preliminary step to publishing some of the case studies being used in the course.

Honors, Inc., Kelly Younger

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Academics across the country are having an allergic reaction to the corporate model of operation being adopted by many universities. Terms like branding, collateral materials, budget controls, marketing strategies, and outcomes are causing a panic among faculty who believe that a customer satisfaction approach to higher education is anti-intellectual and that it leads to grade inflation, teaching toward evaluations, and learning as product, not process.

Honors programs in particular, often the standard bearers of undergraduate academic standards, are being asked to market themselves not only to the top prospective students, but also to the university administration at large. Honors is …

Honours Programmes As Laboratories Of Innovation: A Perspective From The Netherlands, Marca V.C. Wolfensberger, Pierre J. Van Eijl, Albert Pilot

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors programs are a recent and fast growing development in Dutch universities. The first such programs started in 1993. Ten years later 25 programs have been launched at ten universities. Significant are the diversity in the type of programs, their length, and their positioning in the curriculum. In this study we describe the types of programs, the certificates involved, the procedures for selection of the students, and the factors that influence their functioning as experiments for educational innovations. We also present a typology of honors programs in The Netherlands and describe their spin-off effects in the regular programs. At least …

Honors Selection Processes: A Typology And Some Reflections, Richard Stoller

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Many honors programs advertise that honors education is what all undergraduate education would be in a world without resource constraints, so it is not surprising that honors programs have more interested prospects than available spaces. The question of how to select first-year honors students is therefore of interest both practically (in terms of finding the optimal student body) and philosophically (conformity to an ideal of justice, for instance). This article provides a general overview of current honors selection processes for incoming first-year students and discusses the ingredients of an optimal process.

The two “ideal types” of honors selection processes, in …

Simple, Pure, And True: An Emergent Vision Of Liberal Learning At The Research University, Peter Sederberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Epiphanies, presumably, strike suddenly. This vision, however, was not like Saul’s on the road to Damascus; rather, it emerged over 25 years of incremental involvement in creating one of the stronger Honors Colleges in the country at the University of South Carolina. Over the past five years, in particular, my evolutionary experience has been shaped by a growing recognition of an underlying problem confronting the contemporary research university.

In general, the demands faced by research universities have not changed since World War II, though some have fluctuated in intensity. The essential problem, I believe, arises less from external demands and …

Honors Scholarship And Forum For Honors, Sam Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

VADIMIR NABOKOV, my favorite twentieth-century author, was the most self-reflexive of novelists: he would have been delighted with our present enterprise, a discussion in the Forum for Honors devoted to the subject of Forum for Honors. The questions we are attempting to address, although they tend toward the self-referential, are important. Our journal has grown, evolved, and developed into something different than the admirable publication begun by Vishnu Bhatia and ably continued under the direction of Scott Vaughn. It is timely to pause, examine what Forum has been and is today, and, most vitally, what it should aim to …

The Forum For Honors: An Expanded View, Robert Roemer

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Even though Schuman and Estess disagree on what is appropriate for publication in the Forum for Honors, they are both correct. Schuman offers an orthodox view, describing marks of good scholarship and suggesting topics on Honors education suitable for scholarly work. Estess, perhaps because he writes in response to Schuman, is more mischievous and proposes that the Forum for Honors should for a while accept no articles on Honors education and in this interim should become a journal of interest to the liberally educated reader. In my opinion, both these opinions should be incorporated in the editorial policy of …

The Role Of Community College Honors Programs In Reducing Transfer Shock, Greg Phillips

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Community colleges have historically addressed the needs of a diverse population (Walker, 2001). A key goal for community colleges is to be a resource for all segments of the community (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2000). Walker (2001) reinforced this directive by stating that the community college purpose was “to bring higher education in its various forms into the community” (p. 9).

Community colleges have concentrated much of their attention on several subpopulations within the community, such as students in vocational training or certificate programs and academically under-prepared students (Outcalt, 1999). As the numbers of students increase, community colleges are …

Faculty Compensation And Course Assessment In Honors Composition, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

When my National Collegiate Honors Council monograph Honors Composition: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Practices was in its dissertation stage, an early draft contained information about potential administrative problems in offering honors composition courses. The initial questionnaire did not include specific questions regarding administrative concerns, but I was prompted to include such questions in the follow-up interviews after receiving a somewhat troubling email message from a questionnaire respondent, an excerpt of which is included here:

Our program is so different from those typically offered that I am not sure if any of our answers would be relevant to your concerns. Because …

Research In Honors And Composition, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Throughout higher education, hundreds of writing programs at two-year, four-year, and graduate degree-granting institutions offer special honors sections of composition courses, many in conjunction with their institutions’ own honors programs. The wide and varied body of scholarship, however, that comprises composition theory and pedagogy contains very little discussion of honors composition at the college level. At the elementary and secondary levels, journals dedicated to gifted education, such as Roeper Review and Gifted Child Quarterly, regularly feature articles focused on research and pedagogical practices in teaching writing to gifted children. The two-year college level has produced a few pieces that …

Honors Scholarship: Another View, Ted Estess

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Samuel Beckett, not Vladimir Nabokov, is the most self-reflexive of novelists; and in a flurry of self-reflexivity, one of his narrators finally admits to a fundamental deficit: “if there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing?” In his usual compelling and concise way, Sam Schuman works in his article to invent an answer to the question, What ought we to be doing in Forum for Honors? And invent an answer we must, if the Forum is to fulfill its lofty ambition …

Editorial Matter For Volume 5, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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

Honors Research In Nursing: Integration Of Theory And Evidence-Based Practice Using Multiple Modalities Of Thinking, Ellen Buckner

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Clinical judgment in nursing requires integration of a broad set of concepts from patho-physiological processes and situation-specific assessments to human caring and interpersonal communication. Nursing students consistently report difficulty in understanding and applying the complexities and ambiguities of care. They often perceive mixed messages and competing perspectives that cannot be resolved; their increasing frustration can produce anxiety about the conceptual tasks of scholarship. Honors research in nursing addresses this problem directly. Students have the opportunity to develop project ideas through all phases of the research process. They select a clinical question, relate it to nursing theory and current literature, design …

Differences Between An Honors Program And Honors College: A Case Study, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors colleges are springing up across the country. In the last several years public institutions of higher education from Vermont to Cal State Fresno and from Maine to South Florida have started honors colleges. Private universities such as Baylor, Hofstra, and Auburn have honors colleges as well (see Digby, 2002). At least one writer, Murray Sperber (2000) of Indiana University, has speculated that the primary purpose for creating such colleges is to solicit funds from one or more major donors. Others point out that the transition from program to college is primarily symbolic, signifying a stronger central commitment to honors …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 5, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Joan Digby
Student Research in Honors -- Joan Digby
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON RESEARCH IN HONORS
Honors Scholarship and Forum for Honors -- Sam Schuman
Honors Scholarship: Another View -- Ted Estess
The Forum for Honors: An Expanded View -- Robert E. Roemer
Honors in Research: Twenty Years Later -- Cheryl Achterberg
Research in Honors and Composition -- Annmarie Guzy

RESEARCH IN HONORS
Simple, Pure, and True: An Emergent Vision of Liberal Learning at the Research University -- Peter Sederberg
Honors Research in Nursing: Integration of Theory and Evidence-Based …

Honors In Research: Twenty Years Later, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Three papers (Estress, 1984; Roemer, 1984; Schuman, 1984) were published twenty years ago on the subject of research in honors. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine those thoughts in today’s context and to build forward on them where possible.

Honors programs have a tremendous, but as yet unrealized, potential to make a difference in the quality of higher education. Of course, honors programs should make a profound difference in the learning experience of all honors students. As Renzulli (1998) noted, we have “a responsibility to develop gifted behavior, not just find and certify it.” Yet, there are few …