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Mothers In Honors, Mimi Killinger, Rachel Binder-Hathaway, Paige Mitchell, Emily Patrick
Mothers In Honors, Mimi Killinger, Rachel Binder-Hathaway, Paige Mitchell, Emily Patrick
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive
The University of Maine’s 2012 valedictorian, honors student Rachel Binder-Hathaway, gave her graduation speech via Skype last May as she had already begun a yearlong Fulbright Scholarship in Bangladesh. Rachel was putting to use her business and economics degrees, traveling to numerous villages in an effort to determine various best practices in microfinance while also isolating ineffective program elements. She intended to help Bangladeshi women grow their own successful small businesses and thus work their way out of relentless and abject poverty. Rachel is committed to assisting these women, who would otherwise have few opportunities outside the home, to create …
Assessing Success In Honors: Getting Beyond Graduation Rates, Sean K. Kelly
Assessing Success In Honors: Getting Beyond Graduation Rates, Sean K. Kelly
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive
An honors curriculum with realistic graduation requirements should have a respectable graduation rate. This number, when low, can indicate significant problems in the program. But a high graduation rate does not necessarily indicate success. A quality honors program, especially one that remains attentive to students’ ability to thrive, might have better measures available for judging impact and effectiveness. After all, manipulating a graduation rate is easy: make the curriculum excessively convenient and lower standards. While some honors curricula are perhaps unnecessarily rigid or unusually difficult, the faculty and administrators of most quality programs have managed to create a curriculum with …
Nontraditional Honors And The Hopefulness Of Summer Reading, Angela M. Salas
Nontraditional Honors And The Hopefulness Of Summer Reading, Angela M. Salas
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive
In the summer of 2012, I had the good fortune to have my summer session course cancelled as a result of low enrollment. While unexpectedly losing a course and a salary was unpleasant, I undertook a reading program designed to help me improve our first-year honors classes. The sequence, Honors 103 and 104, is known as the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE), and it fulfills multiple general education requirements for all but our nursing students. In the course of the year, students read and respond to four texts (generally paired fiction and nonfiction works), prepare a guided, independent research project, give …