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Honors Is Elitist, And What’S Wrong With That?, Norm Weiner

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Like many other concepts in the sociological literature, social class is easier to discuss than to define. Nonetheless, define it we must in order to have some common ground for discussing it and for explaining it to our students. Aquick scan of basic textbooks, those defenders of sociology’s virtues, gives us a definition something like this: “A social class is a group of people [in sociology, it’s always safe to start this way] who share the same level of income and education and therefore share roughly the same norms, values, and lifestyle.” To be perfectly clear about this, sociologists aren’t …

Honors And Class, Bernice Braid

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Since the l980s a steady stream of scholarly works has examined stratification along class lines in American education. A recent work on this subject is Tearing Down the Gates, by Peter Sacks, which won the Frederic W. Ness Book Award in January 2009. It draws a detailed portrait of changes in demographics over the past thirty years or so. His time line allows him to pinpoint a growing polarization that shows a severely reduced college population of students from low-income families, displaced by an enormous increase in students from affluent families on our college campuses. As his subtitle indicates, …

List Of Journal Themes 2000-2009

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

 Liberal Learning In the New Century Vol. 1 No. 1 (2000) (the only issue not available digitally)

 Science in Honors Vol. 1 No. 2 (2000)

 Educational Transitions with Special Forum On Honors Education Vol. 2 No. 1 (2001)

 Honors and the Creative Arts Vol. 2 No. 2 (2001)

 Liberal Learning Vol. 3 No. 1 (2002)

 Technology in Honors Vol. 3 No. 2 (2002)

 Students and Teachers in Honors Vol. 4 No. 1 (2003)

 Multiperspectivism In Honors Education Vol. 4 No. 2 (2003)

 Research in Honors Vol. 5 No. 1 (2004)

 …

About The Authors

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

William A. Ashton

Bernice Braid

Craig T. Cobane

Rose Cole

Lisa DeFrank-Cole

Linda Frost

Keith Garbutt

Michael Giazzoni

Annmarie Guzy

Nathan Hilberg

Kyle McKay

Charlotte Pressler

Anne N. Rinn

Robert Spurrier

Norm Weiner

The Two-Year College Honors Program And The Forbidden Topics Of Class And Cultural Capital, Charlotte Pressler

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

From my position as honors director at a two-year college in rural Florida, in the citrus and cow-hunter country south of I-4 and north of Okeechobee, Norm Weiner’s positing of honors education as a way to give students a chance to climb the class ladder seems persuasive. Honors education can, and does, help our students fulfill their middle-class aspirations. Yet much still remains to unpack in this middle-class-ness, especially in its connection to education. This territory is uncomfortable to Americans, for whom, as Weiner writes, “a basic . . . value is equality” and for whom the notion of social …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council - Volume 10, No. 2 - Complete Issue, Kate Briggs

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors in the Electronic Age George Mariz 17

Postmodern Prometheans: Academic Libraries, Information Technologies, and the Cut-and-Paste Aesthetic Emily Walshe 23

Immigrant Song: A Cautionary Note about Technology and Honors Richard Badenhausen 29

Digital Deliberations Stephen A. Yoder 35

It’s the Pedagogy, Stupid Richard Ira Scott and Donna Bowman 41

Building a Better Honors Learning Community through Technology Melissa L. Johnson 45

Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age Frances A. Kelleher and Susan Swartzlander 49

Implementing Wikis in Honors Courses Philip L. Frana 53

Using Flickr to Connect a Multi-Campus Honors Community Laura A. Guertin and …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council - Volume 10, No. 2 - Editorial Matter

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors in the Electronic Age George Mariz 17

Postmodern Prometheans: Academic Libraries, Information Technologies, and the Cut-and-Paste Aesthetic Emily Walshe 23

Immigrant Song: A Cautionary Note about Technology and Honors Richard Badenhausen 29

Digital Deliberations Stephen A. Yoder 35

It’s the Pedagogy, Stupid Richard Ira Scott and Donna Bowman 41

Building a Better Honors Learning Community through Technology Melissa L. Johnson 45

Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age Frances A. Kelleher and Susan Swartzlander 49

Implementing Wikis in Honors Courses Philip L. Frana 53

Using Flickr to Connect a Multi-Campus Honors Community Laura A. Guertin and …

Honors In The Electronic Age, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

No blessing comes unmixed, and this is certainly the case with the plethora of opportunities that the new electronic world presents to higher education and to honors programs. For some this electronic revolution threatens to undermine established values and traditional academic practices, while for others it represents unprecedented ease and access to information with even greater benefits on the horizon. Both sides are right, if not completely right. Electronic innovations have certainly disrupted the academy, but new means of research and communication have enhanced academic life significantly and will continue to do so. The trick, obviously, is using these new …

Assessing Student Learning In Community College Honors Programs Using The Cccse Course Feedback Form, Laura O. Ross, Marcia A. Roman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Academically talented students with impressive placement scores are enrolling at community colleges in increasing numbers. The economy has certainly played a role in this migration to two-year institutions, where students can commute from home and pay lower tuition rates, but other factors have also contributed to the change. Community colleges have expanded their mission to meet the academic needs of this population (Marklei; Boulard), and articulation agreements between community colleges and universities have improved over the years (Kane).

Honors In Practice, Volume 5 (Complete Issue)

Honors in Practice Online Archive

CONTENTS
Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Earl and Maggie Brown
Editor’s Introduction Ada Long

IMPORTANT SPEECHES OF 2008
Stability in the Context of Change Hallie E. Savage
Ending in Honors Samuel Schuman
People Who Think Otherwise Kevin Donovan

ADMINISTRATIVE DESIGNS
Implementing Honors Faculty Status: An Adventure in Academic Politics Jesse Peters
Building an Honors Development Board Scott Carnicom and Philip M. Mathis
Honors Ex Machina: Changing Perceptions of Honors through Horizontal Integration, A Case Study Timothy L. Hulsey
Separate but Equal: Will it Work for Professional Honors Programs? Beata M. Jones and Peggy W. Watson

CURRICULAR DESIGNS
Combining Chemistry …

Bibliography, Volume 27 (2009)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Bibliography for volume 27 (2009) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

About The Authors, Volume 27 (2009)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

About the editors and authors of volume 27 (2009) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

Ten Ways To Use A Relational Database At A Faculty Development Center, A. Jane Birch, Tara Gray

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Providing quality support to faculty requires attention to administrative details and event logistics. As professionals, we must also assess the impact of our work and be prepared to report to those who will judge its worth and allocate resources. To do this we need current, accurate data that are easy to access and easy to use. We also need a simple way to manage faculty development activities and evaluate the outcomes. The best technology for achieving these goals is a relational database. This chapter describes ten ways a relational database can be used to support faculty developers in their various …

Romancing The Muse: Faculty Writing Institutes As Professional Development, Elizabeth Ambos, Mark Wiley, Terre H. Allen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Conclusion
Given the tremendous success of the SWIs, we intend to continue to offer them for the foreseeable future, maintaining the features that faculty value most: space, sustenance, and editorial, statistical, and coaching assistance. But we will also make changes based on faculty feedback gathered during the final day’s luncheon debriefing and from the written evaluations. In addition, we intend to conduct formal research on the Institutes’ long-term effects on faculty productivity, satisfaction with scholarly work, and faculty retention. Important questions remain. For example, what is the return on investment in these Institutes, in terms of faculty productivity, career advancement, …

Establishing External, Blind Peer Review Of Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Within The Disciplines, Cheryl A. Stevens, Erik Rosegard

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Colleges and universities face growing pressure to reward multiple forms of scholarship in order to align their missions with faculty roles and rewards. This chapter proposes that disciplinary societies develop templates, processes, and criteria for external, blind peer review of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in order to provide a reliable and valid way to judge the quality of faculty SoTL work. Although SoTL requires support from faculty development programs and other interdisciplinary SoTL forums, it will continue to be viewed as evidence of teaching excellence rather than scholarship until discipline-based external, blind peer-review processes are established.

When Counsel Screws Up: The Imposition And Calculation Of Attorney Fees As Sanctions, Philip Talmadge, Emmelyn Hart-Biberfeld, Peter Lohnes

Seattle University Law Review

While a body of law has emerged in Washington that permits the courts to impose fees against a party or the party’s counsel as a sanction, that body of law has not been coherently examined in the academic setting nor carefully and consistently analyzed in the case law. This Article explores and clarifies the principles underlying the imposition of attorney fees as a sanction, providing an overview of the various ways in which attorneys can be sanctioned when they screw up. The Article discusses Washington law as it applies to sanctions and briefly analyzes how Washington courts look to comparable …

Legal Theology: Law, Modernity And The Sacred, Peter Fitzpatrick

Seattle University Law Review

This article argues that there is both sameness and difference as between the secular and the religious, and that law, modern law, is constituently enmeshed within this sameness and difference. That combination of sameness and difference, along with the integral part of law, is traced in a cumulation of three historicities, the first being the creation of the world's imperium, of the modern world-system, in the sixteenth century. Then, with the second historicity we have the time of revolutions, seen here as almost revolutions, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And finally, with the third historicity we have the time …

Stereotypes: Racism And Its Effects On The 2008 Presidential Election And Our Citizens, Mark Anthony Wheeler

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

This is such a historic time in our country’s story, due to the reprieve from the usual choice of middle-aged White males in a presidential election. The make-up of candidates’ age, race, and sex in the 2008 primaries and general election, allowed the unique opportunity for multiple stereotypes to be engaged. This was an exploratory qualitative study, relying on descriptive data, participant observation during the general election campaign, and in-depth interviews (N=8) that happened within six months after the election of Barack H. Obama, first African-American elected president of the United States. The purpose of this study is to examine …

The Invisiblity Of White Privilege, Michael T. King

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

People in our society can go through life without knowing about white privilege or realizing they themselves, may have this privilege. The white or lighter skin color of a person has automatic benefits, right from birth, them not ever having to do anything to attain this privilege. The consequences are mostly good and outweigh the bad, for the ones that have white privilege. However, skin that is not white has far more injustices, they are oppressed and they are the ones that suffer, not having this same privilege. This study will recognize awareness, barriers, and successful ways to treat people …

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, September 22, 2009, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Pearls, Politics, & Power: How Women Can Win And Leadcurley, Virginia Russell Curley

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Pearls, Politics & Power: How Women Can Win and Lead is part memoir and part scholarly text. Written by the first female governor of Vermont, the text is based on interviews with women in politics with research to support the conclusions they draw. As a former Ambassador to her native Switzer- land and current faculty member, Madeleine Kunin writes a succinct, if not sometimes truncated, account of the status of women in American politics, touching on the primary barriers to women's ascent to elected office. Con- sistent with the complex weaving of psychological and sociological factors that affect access to …

Finding Balance In A Family Of One: Time Use In Single Person Households, Kimberly E. Fox

Dissertations

This project examines the lives of people living alone, particularly their efforts to negotiate and create social boundaries to support a healthy work-life balance. The findings show that people living alone are a diverse segment of the U.S. population and that these individuals work more hours, spend less time on activities at home, and more time with people outside of their home than individuals living with others. People living alone are their own primary caregivers and must find time for self-care and household maintenance in the midst of working and developing meaningful relationships. Without traditional external obligations to structure their …

Are Private Government, Civil Society And Nonprofit Organizations The Same Thing?, Stuart Mendel

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Great Plains Research: A Journal Of Natural And Social Sciences Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2009): News And Notes

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

News and Notes

Conferences

Lecture Announcement

Call for Papers

Charles E. Bessey Award

Leslie Hewes Award

Archeological Interpretation Of The Frontier Battle At Mud Springs, Nebraska, Peter Bleed, Douglas D. Scott

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Between February 4 and 7, 1865, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho warriors engaged a force of U.S. Army soldiers at Mud Springs, Nebraska. Historical records from both sides indicate that this fight marked an early phase of the Indian Wars. Based on systematic metal detections, firearms identification, and terrain analysis, this paper adds archeological insights into the arms and tactics used by the opposing sides. Well-armed Native fighters used terrain to approach U.S. troops, who maintained a defensive posture. U.S. soldiers appear to have dug a rifle pit to see approaching attackers.

Legitimacy And International Adjudicative Bodies, Nienke Grossman

All Faculty Scholarship

This article proposes a theory of legitimacy tailored to international courts and tribunals. In Part II of this paper, the article defines an "international adjudicative body" as a dispute resolution mechanism - also called a "court" or "tribunal" - which decides disputes between litigants, at least one of whom must be a state, and comments on this definitional choice. The analysis in this article is limited only to adjudicative bodies where states are involved as litigants because a different set of legitimacy-influencing factors may be present when only private parties are involved. Next, it lays out a theory of legitimacy …

Apologies And Settlement, Jennifer K. Robbennolt

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

When one person allegedly injures another, he or she will often attempt to provide an account for the conduct that led to the injury. Specifically, he or she might attempt to disavow, explain, excuse, or justify the behavior that purportedly led to the injury. Alternately, he or she might offer an apology to the injured person. Apologies can be distinguished from other forms of accounting in that they acknowledge responsibility for the conduct that caused the harm. Accepting blame and expressing regret for one’s behavior signals a recognition of the norm or rule that was violated and of the harm …

American Indian Law Research For State Courts, Nancy Carol Carter

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

American Indian law commonly describes the body of law by which the United States government regulates its relationship to Indian tribes and Native American citizens. First explorations of Indian law tend to surprise and intrigue the researcher. Unique legal rules characterize the field and extensive historical research may be required. Basic legal principles that govern a factual situation involving non- Indians may not apply to an Indian-law case of similar facts. Appellate decisions may lack broad applicability because they are so closely tied to treaty language or the history of a single tribe. Questions involving Indian law are beginning to …

Happiness And Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan Masur

Faculty Scholarship

This Article continues our project of applying new findings in the behavioral psychology of human happiness to some of the most deeply analyzed questions in law. When a state decides how to punish criminal offenders, at least one important consideration is the amount of harm any given punishment is likely to inflict. It would be undesirable, for example, to impose greater harm on those who commit less serious crimes or to impose harm that rises to the level of cruelty. Our penal system fits punishments to crimes primarily by adjusting the size of monetary fines and the length of prison …

The Return Of The Rogue, Kimberly D. Krawiec

Faculty Scholarship

The “rogue trader”—a famed figure of the 1990s—recently has returned to prominence due largely to two phenomena. First, recent U.S. mortgage market volatility spilled over into stock, commodity, and derivative markets worldwide, causing large financial institution losses and revealing previously hidden unauthorized positions. Second, the rogue trader has gained importance as banks around the world have focused more attention on operational risk in response to regulatory changes prompted by the Basel II Capital Accord. This Article contends that of the many regulatory options available to the Basel Committee for addressing operational risk it arguably chose the worst: an enforced selfregulatory …