Building Virtual Community: The Power Of Peer-Led Engagement,
2024
Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
Building Virtual Community: The Power Of Peer-Led Engagement, Emily Clossin, Shane Collins, Lisa Ruch, Kristina Horn Sheeler, Kara M. Woodlee
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
The Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Honors College developed a multi-layered strategy to foster interpersonal connection and a sense of belonging among incoming students as well as continued opportunities for engagement among the entire community of scholars. Via social media posts and takeovers, peer mentor commitment, and virtual activities organized and led by students, along with more traditional face-to-face events, our new students developed connections, relationships, and a sense of identity as honors scholars. Our continuing students took on new leadership roles in the honors college, displaying their talents and contributing in ways they had not before in face-to-face formats. …
Before They Set Foot On Campus: Building A Virtual Summer Community For Incoming Honors Students,
2024
Lebanon Valley College
Before They Set Foot On Campus: Building A Virtual Summer Community For Incoming Honors Students, Laura G. Eldred, Gillian Wenhold, Jacquelyn Mcbride
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Discusses the launching of a brand-new program rooted in community creation during a pandemic, which meant that traditional modes of cohort building were not going to fly. That said, although the impetus was pandemic-specific, the lessons learned about the creation and value of virtual communities are not limited to one historical moment.
Lasting Lessons From Covid-19: A Story Of Successful Community Building,
2024
Bentley University
Lasting Lessons From Covid-19: A Story Of Successful Community Building, Christian Rubio
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
To state that the landscape of higher education has changed is an understatement. Strategies and approaches have been altered radically since the spring of 2020. After all, college and universities understood that they needed, as Glen Llopsis observes, a “process of reinvention, whether we like it or not. [Because] post-COVID-19 will not look like pre-COVID-19.” Many of these new strategies will undoubtedly become permanent fixtures because their aim was to foster a sense of community in our honors program. It is precisely some of these activities that this article will detail.
Harnessing Flip In Both Hybrid And Fully Online Honors Courses To Build Community,
2024
Robert Morris University
Harnessing Flip In Both Hybrid And Fully Online Honors Courses To Build Community, Monica Vandieren, Sylvia A. Pamboukian
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
To encourage emotionally and socially significant student collaboration, the University Honors Program at Robert Morris University developed a variety of Flip assignments and activities, including scavenger hunts, journals, and peer-advising, that were integrated into online and hybrid courses in order to create a sense of community for students from their first year through their senior year.
Peer Mentoring In A Pandemic: An Honors Experiment In Community Building,
2024
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Peer Mentoring In A Pandemic: An Honors Experiment In Community Building, Jennifer Schlegel, Alexis Duhadaway
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
During fall 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic created a situation that necessitated initiative and required agency across all domains of society and every aspect of higher education, we prioritized the physical and mental health and well-being of our students at Kutztown University, and we recognized the increased significance of establishing social connections when so many had been disrupted. For a generation that has grown up with smart technology, flipping peer mentoring makes sense because it provides a context for the students’ immediate development and assertion of agency in familiar modalities for social and academic connections.
Connecting Honors Students In A Virtual Environment: Activities For Engagement,
2024
Community College of Beaver County
Connecting Honors Students In A Virtual Environment: Activities For Engagement, Sarah Sudar, Colin Sisk
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
With a mix of students returning online and staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC) Honors Program in Monaca, Pennsylvania, had to adapt our model of extracurricular activities to accommodate students who felt comfortable coming on campus as well as balancing virtual events for those who did not.
Transcending Distance: Connecting During Imposed Seclusion,
2024
Georgia Perimeter College
Transcending Distance: Connecting During Imposed Seclusion, Lauri B. Cockfield
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Although the world endured many losses because of the COVID- 19 virus, including missing the hustle and bustle of seeing and socializing with our students in person on campus, I am pleased with the way the honors college at Perimeter turned this challenging time into an opportunity to focus on and build the community our students and faculty have told us they want. We are now adept at archiving virtual events, and our practice is to seek permission from all our speakers to record and archive their presentations. Our plan is to track views of these recorded sessions so we …
Creating Virtual Honors Spaces With Discord And Webex,
2024
Finger Lakes Community College
Creating Virtual Honors Spaces With Discord And Webex, Trista M. Merrill, Ce Rosenow
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Although Discord and WebEx are different platforms that lend themselves to different types of events, they are both useful for creating virtual honors spaces. They can easily be used in addition to other ways of reaching students, such as blogs and social media. Through these virtual spaces, students have an opportunity to gain information, hear guest speakers, and, most importantly, feel connected to their honors community.
The Tightrope Walk Of Academic Creativity: Eliciting Growth In Online Honors Courses,
2024
North Central Texas College
The Tightrope Walk Of Academic Creativity: Eliciting Growth In Online Honors Courses, Jacob Arnold
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
This essay reflects upon and explicates the inception, implementation, and publication of the experimental assignment, “A Quibbler,” from a course entitled “Forms of Literature: Influences of and on Harry Potter” (ENGL 2341) at North Central Texas College in Gainesville, Texas.
Honors Online: Teaching, Learning, And Building Community Virtually In Honors Education: Front And Back Matter,
2024
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Honors Online: Teaching, Learning, And Building Community Virtually In Honors Education: Front And Back Matter, Victoria M. Bryan, Cat Stanfield
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Front and back matter from Honors Online: Teaching, Learning, and Building Community Virtually in Honors Education (NCHC, 2024), edited by Victoria M. Bryan and Cat Stanfield.
“We Advocate A Semi-Revolution”: An Honors Conference Undergoes Transformation,
2024
University of Baltimore
“We Advocate A Semi-Revolution”: An Honors Conference Undergoes Transformation, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison, Bruce Thompson
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Since the 1980s, the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council has offered an annual conference on a host campus in late February. In 2020, MCHC slipped in the conference just before the apocalyptic arrival of COVID-19 in March. Because this conference is hugely popular statewide, we decided to organize it virtually in 2021. Our topic—In Honors…Black Lives Matter—was too important for us to wait out the pandemic. We charged nothing, partly to encourage students and member institutions to participate and partly because it cost us nothing. Attendance tripled. Students who could not miss class or work were able to attend. Programs were …
Remembering Ada Long, May 20, 1945–February 4, 2024,
2024
Georgia State University
Remembering Ada Long, May 20, 1945–February 4, 2024, Jeffrey A. Portnoy, Larry Andrews, Bernice Braid, James J. Clauss, Lisa L. Coleman, Kevin W. Dean, Joan Digby, Linda Frost, Galit Gertsenzon, Devon Graham, Raymond Green, Annmarie Guzy, Jerry Herron, Mimi Killinger, John A. Knox, George Mariz, Mitch Pruitt, La Tanya L. Reese Rogers, Rae Rosenthal, Rusty Rushton, Chris Simon, Michael E. Sloane, Michaela Ruppert Smith, Christopher J. Syrnyk, Maria V. Tarasova, Norm Weiner
Honors in Practice Online Archive
As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s collection of essays honoring the life and work of Dr. Ada Long (1945–2024), the authors reflect on the personal and professional impact she has made in the honors experience. See https://youtube.com/live/EwdleBW1Rf8?feature=share to view the entire Celebration of Life that was held June 8, 2024.
A Matter Of Definition, Criteria,
And Standards In Honors:
A History, From The Basic Characteristics To The “Nchc Shared Principles And Practices
Of Honors Education”,
2024
Westminster University
A Matter Of Definition, Criteria, And Standards In Honors: A History, From The Basic Characteristics To The “Nchc Shared Principles And Practices Of Honors Education”, Richard Badenhausen, James Buss
Honors in Practice Online Archive
For more than half a century, the honors community has debated the role of standards. This comprehensive overview of those discussions—the first ever—traces the evolution of how honors education has defined itself from its early years right up until the 2022 adoption of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s new “NCHC Shared Principles and Practices of Honors Education.” While the latest document may seem to represent a stark change, the genealogy unfolded here demonstrates the “Shared Principles” as a return to the collegial and inclusive spirit of the earliest discussions about standards while reflecting more recent issues in contemporary higher education. …
Aristotle’S Poetics:
A Biologist’S Approach To Tragedy,
2024
University of Washington
Aristotle’S Poetics: A Biologist’S Approach To Tragedy, James J. Clauss
Honors in Practice Online Archive
The paper describes a class that introduces Aristotle’s Poetics from the perspective of his scientific, especially biological, treatises: a systematic analysis of what emotions a tragedy is supposed to elicit and how they are resolved by the audience (homoeopathy). Students read 11 ancient and modern plays and view one film, observing whether his theory of the Tragic explains our responses. The final project includes the writing of a tragic story (not a drama) evincing the students’ own understanding of the Tragic based on the readings.
Mindfulness In Honors:
An Experiment In Collaborative Learning
And Team Teaching,
2024
Carroll University
Mindfulness In Honors: An Experiment In Collaborative Learning And Team Teaching, Pascale F. Engelmajer, Massimo A. Rondolino
Honors in Practice Online Archive
What do students hear when we talk of mindfulness? To reframe unexamined assumptions among students who conceptualize both mindfulness and honors education as “doing more” (more exercises to gain psychological benefits and more work to gain higher GPAs), the authors of this paper piloted a new course in philosophy and religious studies. In this essay, they discuss their collaborative experience designing, co-teaching, and assessing an honors course on mindfulness: its roots in Buddhist thought and practices, its contemporary secular developments, and its potential impact on students’ learning and lived experience. Integral to this experiment is also an approach to teaching …
Forming Civic Virtue Through
An Honors Seminar Focused
On Local Civil Rights History,
2024
Auburn University at Montgomery
Forming Civic Virtue Through An Honors Seminar Focused On Local Civil Rights History, Lynn Stallings, Aaron D. Cobb
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Citizenship and related values are common elements in the missions of honors programs. Our goal was to design a junior honors seminar with an intentional focus on developing citizenship, civic identity, and civic virtues through engagement with the challenging history of our city, Montgomery, Alabama. The course employed four evidence-based strategies for character formation in higher education: reflection on personal experience, engagement with virtuous exemplars, dialogue that increases virtue literacy, and awareness of situational variables. This paper describes our focus on learning about Civil Rights history to develop citizenship and civic virtues, the course’s impact on students, our reflections on …
The Involvement Journal:
A Signature First-Year Seminar Assignment,
2024
Buffalo State University
The Involvement Journal: A Signature First-Year Seminar Assignment, Matt Baran
Honors in Practice Online Archive
An involvement journal assignment encourages first-year students to attend a variety of events and engage in meaningful reflection and development.
Physics And Theatre:
An Unexpected Pairing That Enhances
Learning For Both Disciplines,
2024
Lake-Sumter State College
Physics And Theatre: An Unexpected Pairing That Enhances Learning For Both Disciplines, Amber Karlins
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to seemingly disparate subjects like theatre and physics allows students to more deeply engage with both disciplines.
Addressing The Climate Crisis
Through Science And Art:
The Value Of Interdisciplinary
And Intergenerational Team Teaching,
2024
University of New Mexico
Addressing The Climate Crisis Through Science And Art: The Value Of Interdisciplinary And Intergenerational Team Teaching, Megan Jacobs, Kineo Memmer
Honors in Practice Online Archive
The climate crisis is a growing concern for many people, especially those who are of college age, making it an important and pressing issue to explore in honors courses. Eco-Art: Using Art to Reconcile with the Climate Crisis, a University of New Mexico (UNM) Honors College course, integrates the disciplines of art and environmental justice to examine climate change and address the social and emotional toll of climate grief. The class was co-created and team taught by Associate Professor Megan Jacobs and UNM undergraduate honors and environmental science student Kineo Memmer. This article unpacks the methodologies and lessons learned from …
Fostering Belonging Through Bread
(And Other Foods),
2024
Midwestern University
Fostering Belonging Through Bread (And Other Foods), Maria Elliott, Steve Garrison
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Communal eating serves as an effective teaching tool for cultural awareness while providing a powerful vehicle to promote community between faculty and students.
