Death—Planning For The
Inevitable:
A Hybrid Honors Course,
2012
Midwestern State University
Death—Planning For The Inevitable: A Hybrid Honors Course, Jennifer Gresham, Betty Carlson Bowles, Marty Gibson, Kim Robinson, Mark Farris, Juliana Felts
Honors in Practice Online Archive
One of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s Basic Characteristics of an Honors Program is that “the program serves as a laboratory within which faculty feel welcome to experiment with new subjects, approaches, and pedagogies. When proven successful, such efforts in curriculum and pedagogical development can serve as prototypes for initiatives that can become institutionalized across the campus.” Four faculty members from the departments of nursing and respiratory therapy at Midwestern State University, a public liberal arts university in Wichita Falls, designed and taught a hybrid honors course called Death—Planning for the Inevitable. This course, which combined traditional in-class and online …
Dedication,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Dedication
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Gary Bell has been a stalwart supporter of honors locally, regionally, and nationally for almost twenty-five years. His commitment to honors started even earlier when he was an undergraduate honors student at Brigham Young University, where he got both his BA and MA. He then earned his PhD from UCLA, and, after teaching at Illinois State and Western Illinois University, he joined the faculty of Sam Houston University, where in 1988 he became the founding honors director until 1993. He then moved to Texas Tech University and became Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program, along with other …
The Institutional Impact
Of Honors Though A
Campus-Community
Common Read,
2012
South Dakota State University
The Institutional Impact Of Honors Though A Campus-Community Common Read, Timothy J. Nichols
Honors in Practice Online Archive
The common reading program at South Dakota State University, coordinated and spear-headed by the SDSU Honors College, has in just three years of existence had powerful, positive, institution-wide impacts, including significant learning outcomes for both honors and non-honors students. The role that honors can play in the design and execution of a common reading program is one strategy for making an honors college or program an important contributor not only to its own students but to the mission of the institution. The specifics of SDSU’s program—its background, goals, approaches to meet those goals, and assessment results—might thus serve as a …
Editorial,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
We Are The Stories We Tell,
2012
Eastern Illinois University
We Are The Stories We Tell, Bonnie D. Irwin
Honors in Practice Online Archive
As I approach my last hour of the presidency of NCHC, my voice will fade; it will become less prominent in the discourse of honors and our organization, and a new day will bring new stories into our midst. Yet my stories of our organization and our meeting in Phoenix will endure as I return to my campus, tired but enlightened, inspired to apply what I have learned and experienced over these four days. You each will do the same, returning home and telling your stories; by doing so, you will tell the story of NCHC.
I study storytelling and …
Professional Development For Geographically Dispersed Faculty,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Professional Development For Geographically Dispersed Faculty, Emily Donnelli-Sallee, Amber Dailey-Hebert, B. Jean Mandernach
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
No abstract provided.
Tough-Love Consulting,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Tough-Love Consulting, Allison P. Boye, Suzanne Tapp
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
No abstract provided.
Collaborating With Faculty To Design Active Learning With Flexible Technology,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Collaborating With Faculty To Design Active Learning With Flexible Technology, Beth A. Fisher, Kathryn G. Miller, William E. Buhro, Deborah J. Frank, Regina F. Frey
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
No abstract provided.
About The Authors,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Honors Analytics:
Science, An Interdisciplinary
Lab-Based Course On
Visual Perception,
2012
Belmont University
Honors Analytics: Science, An Interdisciplinary Lab-Based Course On Visual Perception, Stephen R. Campbell, Robert T. Grammer, Lonnie Yandell, William H. Hooper
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Interdisciplinarity has consistently been a hallmark of honors courses, particularly in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Such an approach has been less universal in honors courses in the natural sciences, particularly in laboratory- based courses (Ramaley). We believe that a mark of success of any such course is the degree to which it moves from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary. Moreover, if the course fulfills a general education requirement in science, it needs to include exposure to the scope of scientific investigation, the techniques of science, and the nature of the scientific process. At Belmont University, we created and for ten …
Turning Challenges Into Gold:
Cross-Listing Introductory
Honors With Advanced Classes
In The Visual Arts,
2012
South Dakota State University
Turning Challenges Into Gold: Cross-Listing Introductory Honors With Advanced Classes In The Visual Arts, Leda Cempellin
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Jim Lacey has offered an insight on the benefits of challenging courses for honors students: he prefers to think of an honors course not as a highly specialized, intensive-writing, and discipline-specific academic course but as the ideal general education course: “The courses themselves, I believe, should be challenging, different, and fun for instructors and students alike. When possible, they should be team taught and interdisciplinary; they should involve off-campus activities; and, instead of papers and exams, they should feature projects, preferably in teams” (79). During the early planning stages of the new course called Museum Experience at South Dakota State …
Honors Pre-Thesis
Workshop, 2.0,
2012
Miami University
Honors Pre-Thesis Workshop, 2.0, Aaron T. Coey, Carolyn Haynes
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Almost every week throughout the year, the University Honors Program of Miami University holds recruitment programs for prospective honors students. High school juniors and seniors, often with assorted parents and family members in tow, file into an auditorium to learn about the key features, requirements, and benefits of our honors program. Smiles, nods, and eager questions greet comments relating to honors housing, honors seminars, advance course registration, and scholarships. Inevitably, when the mention of a required honors thesis arises, concerned looks, stony silence, and side glances emerge.
The hallmark of most honors programs across the nation is the undergraduate honors …
About The Authors, Volume 31 (2012),
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
About The Authors, Volume 31 (2012)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
About the editors and authors of volume 31 (2012) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Preface, Volume 31 (2012),
2012
Auburn University
Preface, Volume 31 (2012), James E. Groccia
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 31 (2012) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by James E. Groccia of Auburn University.
Affirming Quality Teaching:
A Valuable Role For Honors,
2012
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Affirming Quality Teaching: A Valuable Role For Honors, Kevin W. Dean, Michael B. Jendzurski
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Frequently university students as well as faculty and administrators need to be reminded of Catherine the Great’s advice: we are wise to affirm the good in others. “Knowing how powerful [celebration] is, it is shocking how overlooked it is in most areas of life, especially education” (Clifton 177). Blanchard adds that, while individuals far prefer receiving “one-minute praises over one-minute reprimands,” evaluation practices more frequently find individuals seeking to catch others doing something wrong rather than catching others doing something right (76–85). Although the culture of honors education traditionally promotes and recognizes excellence in student performance through multiple rituals such …
Honoring The National Parks:
A Local Adaptation Of A
Partners In The Parks Adventure,
2012
LIU Post
Honoring The National Parks: A Local Adaptation Of A Partners In The Parks Adventure, Joan Digby, Kathleen Nolan
Honors in Practice Online Archive
The National Collegiate Honors Council has long recognized that collaboration among institutions is important to honors education. Since its inception over five decades ago, NCHC has promoted the mutual exchange of ideas about honors in order to disseminate the best of these ideas as potential prototypes (Andrews). In addition to its annual NCHC conferences, which offer a large forum for sharing ideas, NCHC has fostered and supported a variety of collaborative programs such as Honors Semesters and Faculty Institutes, the most recent of which is the Partners in the Parks Program (PITP), which—like its predecessor programs—is designed not only to …
The Genesis Of An
Honors Faculty:
Collective Reflections On A
Process Of Change,
2012
University of Maine
The Genesis Of An Honors Faculty: Collective Reflections On A Process Of Change, Robert W. Glover, Charlie Slavin, Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Jordan P. Labouff, Justin D. Martin, Mimi Killinger, Mark Haggerty
Honors in Practice Online Archive
In the early twentieth century, Woodrow Wilson introduced the concept of “preceptors” at Princeton University (Office of the Dean of the College). At the University of Maine a century later, we have adapted Wilson’s concept by hiring faculty members who lead small-group discussions in our interdisciplinary, two-year, four-course core Civilizations sequence, which is a requirement for all first- and second-year honors students. Like Wilson, we hope to “import into the great university the methods and personal contact between teacher and pupil which are characteristic of the small college, and so gain the advantages of both” (Leitch). During the 2010–2011 academic …
Implementing A University Learning Consortium For Shared Communication And Proactive Campus Change,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Implementing A University Learning Consortium For Shared Communication And Proactive Campus Change, David W. Schumann, Dorian Stiefel, Michelle Corvette, Chutney W. Guyton
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
No abstract provided.
Designing A First-Year Honors
Seminar With A Whole
New Mind,
2012
Mount Ida College
Designing A First-Year Honors Seminar With A Whole New Mind, Ellen J. Goldberger
Honors in Practice Online Archive
The book that swam into my ken was Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. It was fall of 2008, and I had been appointed director of the newly created Mount Ida College Honor Scholars Program (HSP). The mission of the HSP is to promote creative thinking, interdisciplinary study, and close mentoring relationships with faculty. Program requirements include a first-year honors seminar (for academic credit) and three honors “contracts” (independent studies completed in addition to degree requirements, for honors credit but not academic credit) supervised by faculty mentors. Honor Scholars are required to present …
Faculty Engagement In Program-Level Outcomes Assessment,
2012
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Faculty Engagement In Program-Level Outcomes Assessment, Elizabeth L. Evans
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
No abstract provided.
