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Evaluation Vs. Grading In Honors Composition Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Grades And Love Teaching, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As a professor of composition and technical communication, I have had extensive training for and experience with evaluating student writing. The intellectual work of composition as an academic discipline manifests itself in three areas: rhetorically-based composition theory, empirical research of both qualitative and quantitative natures, and—unlike other disciplines aside from education—the applications of that theory and research to build sound teaching practices. In the pedagogical third of our scholarship, compositionists learn not only to design syllabi and assignments that will meet educational goals for students who will need to argue, research, and write at the postsecondary level, but also to …

Editorial Matter For Volume 8, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jeffrey A. Portnoy
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

I Love Numbers, Bruce Fox

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I love numbers. Five and two thirds: the number of years it took for me to finish my bachelor of science degree. 05/05: my wedding anniversary. 15826: the address of the house where I grew up (well, perhaps “got older”— many folks believe that I have never grown up). Twenty-nine and 1290: the minimum ACT and SAT scores, respectively, needed for admittance to an honors program. Forty-two: for you Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, the “…Ultimate Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” As a forester, I work with numbers on a regular and continuing …

Using Characteristics Of K–12 Gifted Programs To Evaluate Honors Programs, Mary Tallent-Runnels, Shana Shaw, Julie A. Thomas

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The objective of this study was to conduct an exploratory evaluation of honors programs in institutions of higher education. Nine characteristics of exemplary K–12 gifted programs were used for this analysis of honors programs in the Big 12 schools. One school was eliminated from the process because it was the only one without an honors college. Instead, this school had departmental honors programs, and all programs there were somewhat different. Overall results showed that the eleven honors programs we examined complied with the same criteria recommended for K–12 programs. However, compliance with the characteristics varied. Most notably, only one program …

Searching For Tatiyana, Sriram Khe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Afemale student rushed into my office with a backpack swinging from her shoulder as I was enjoying freshly brewed coffee and a brownie from the batch I had made for my class. No introductions, but an abrupt “Dr. Khé, you don’t know me, but I heard that you have applied for the Director position, and I totally support your application.”
This was how my interaction with honors students started a couple of years ago after I had barely submitted my application for the Director position. I had no idea what to say other than “thanks, but who are you?” She …

To Speak Or Not To Speak: That Is The Question, Joyce Fields

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the best of all academic worlds, the phrase “grading in honors” is an oxymoron. According to many and various sources, the gifted college student is more of a perfectionist with higher educational aspirations than non-honors students. She tends to be more autonomous, self-aware, and willing to engage in discourse than non-honors students. We know that she comes to us with higher academic credentials than non-honors students and that she is, therefore, more poised for success. How, then, do we assess the creative, energetic, enthusiastic, impassioned work we expect from such students? Should we be required to do so?
In …

Residential Housing Population Revitalization: Honors Students, David Taylor

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Construction is not an uncommon sight on college and university campuses today. Such importance is placed on facilities that erection, addition, and modernization costs totaled more than 14.5 billion dollars in the United States during the 2005 calendar year (Agron, 2006). Collegiate administrators have come to realize that prospective students and their guardians focus not only on the academic quality of an institution but also on the vehicle through which that product is conveyed (Hanish & Romano, 2003).

The physical environment of a campus plays an important role in the eventual selection of an institution. Students spend a great deal …

Important Issues For Growing An Honors Program, Nick Flynn

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

A common challenge in honors is gauging how much our respective programs should grow over a certain time period. Before that challenge can be fully addressed, however, several issues of a more rudimentary sort must be considered—issues concerning budget, scholarships, advising load, and development of community within the honors program. Essentially, directors must be able to financially support expansion (budget and scholarships) while not altering the environment of their programs (advising load and community development).

Editorial Matter For Volume 8, 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 Larry R. Andrews
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2007, New England Faculty Development Consortium

NEFDC Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Judith Kamber, Northern Essex Community College

From the editors -

Encounters With George: Information Literacy and Mathematics at Berkshire Community College - Karen Carreras-Hubbard and Annette Guertin, Berkshire Community College

Achieving Information Literacy Goals Through Collaboration - Pamela Bedore, University of Connecticut, Avery Point

Teaming Up! The Sociology/English Composition I /Librarian Embed Experience at Northern Essex Community College - Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College

Common Learning Outcomes for First-Year Information Literacy - Mary Adams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Gabriela Adler, Bristol Community College; Susan Berteaux, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Marcia Dinneen, Bridgewater State …

Race, Class, Access, And Equity, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

These are issues that have become prominent in our discussions of educational administration. In travel throughout the United States, the changing face of schools reflects the importance of these issues to education leaders. In two recent trips to educational leadership conferences held in Las Vegas, Nevada, I was struck by the variety of language groups represented by the service workers of the city. My trips in early 2007 were 30 days apart. In that brief time span, it sounded as though the number of languages and accents I heard on the second trip had doubled since the first trip. Disney …

Juvenile Delinquents' Views Of Teachers' Language, Classroom Instruction And Listening Behaviors, Dixie Sanger, Dannie Deschene, Karen Stokely, Don Belau

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purposes of this study were to survey the views of female adolescents about: (a) their classroom teachers' language used during instruction, (b) their attitudes toward the language of classroom instruction, and (c) views about listening behaviors. A survey design was used with 31 participants ranging in age from 15 to 18 with a mean age of 17.12 years. Three questionnaires addressing classroom instruction and listening behaviors were read to each student. Two open-ended questions on learning in school were included in the study. Descriptive findings revealed the language load of the curriculum was too difficult and not sufficiently understood …

First Things First: Writing Strategies--Writing Gaffes, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

One way to improve your writing skills is to serve as an editor or reviewer. When you read a variety of manuscripts, you increase your knowledge of the subject as well as enrich your knowledge of writing. In practitioner fields, one learns side-by-side with seasoned professionals. Just as medical professionals learn their craft knowledge through practicing on patients, educational administrators learn their craft knowledge by practicing on educational organizations. Writers, too, learn their craft knowledge by practicing on the prose of others and crafting their own prose. We learn from both positive examples and from negative examples. As an editor …

Women In History - Dorothy Day, Barbara L. Brock

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Dorothy Day challenged generations of social and political orthodoxies. She was a pacifist, a champion of the rights of women, the poor, and the oppressed at a time when it was neither politically or fashionably correct. She believed in a social revolution that did not begin with government programs, but from the bottom up. She asked everyday people to open their hearts and embrace voluntary poverty. Dorothy Day was born on November 8,1897, in New York City, where she died 83 years later. She was born into a middle class family but was introduced to poverty when her journalist father …

Making Research Trustworthy For Native Americans, Daniel R. Vasgird

Research Compliance Services: Staff Publications

Goal: To learn what research approaches are considered respectful and trustworthy by Native American populations.
Ethical and scientific justification: The Federal Regulations of human research and other ethical guidelines did not prepare us for what we have learned, by trial and error, about conducting research on Native American populations. If research with these populations is to be conducted validly and respectfully, the ground rules need to be learned inductively, and ideally shared with other investigators.

Teaching An Honors Course Tied To A Large University Event, Anne Wilson, Tyler Blakly, Kathryn Leciejewski, Michelle Sams, Susan Surber

Honors in Practice Online Archive

College- or university-wide events take place fairly often at academic institutions, and these events can easily provide honors programs the opportunity to offer a curricular focus based on the event. Herein, we describe a course centered on the sesquicentennial celebration of Butler University and the teaching model implemented to deliver the course.

The Honors Community: Furthering Program Goals By Securing Honors Housing, Nancy Reichert

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Many of us involved in honors programs and colleges assume that honors housing plays an important role in creating an honors community on campus. Some of the institutions for which we work agree and do not necessarily insist that we make the case for honors housing on campus. However, my experience this past year in attempting to bring honors housing to my campus for the second time in three years indicates that those who are involved in the decision-making process do not necessarily support honors housing. This article concerns the methods I used as Director of the University Honors Program …

Where Are The Education Majors And Faculty?, Lynne Steyer Noble

Honors in Practice Online Archive

As an Associate Professor of Education, I (Lynne Steyer Noble) became involved in the Columbia College Honors Program because I designed and taught an honors seminar based on my experiences living in Northern Ireland, not because of my education background. In 2004, on the way to present at the National Conference in New Orleans, I happened to look around the airplane and notice that there were very few education majors in the fairly large contingent of Columbia College Honors students. In conference workshops, as participants introduced themselves I noted that there were no other education professors in any of the …

Social Systems And Issues: Food & Culture: Honors Breadth Social Sciences Hnr 1340 (Freshman), Sarah Gordon

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This interdisciplinary course explores the complex roles of food and consumption in western and non-western cultures from pre-history to the present day, using socio-historical, developmental, and comparative approaches. Food and foodways are universal aspects of the human experience across time and geographical boundaries. This class investigates the relation of food to changing and static cultural values, beliefs, attitudes, rituals, and practices. We eat and consider how foods such as chocolate, sugar, potatoes, and insects have had an impact on different societies and cultures. We discuss current world events and issues related to food and hunger, health and disease.

Editorial, Volume 3 - 2007, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Table of Contents:

Editorial Policy

Submission Guidelines

Dedication to William P. Mech

Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long

Learning a Practice Versus Learning to Be a Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology in an Honors Context by Troy R. Lovata

Teaching Arts and Honors: Four Successful Syllabi by P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, and Joe A. Thomas

Service Learning in the Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make? by Ann T. Parker

First-Year “Initiation” Courses in Honors by Jim Lacey

Teaching an Honors Course Tied to a Large University Event by Anne M. Wilson, Tyler D. Blakley, Kathryn A. Leciejewski, Michelle L. Sams, …

Ten Steps To Honors Publication: How Students Can Prepare Their Honors Work For Publication, Ellen Buckner

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The gold standard for scholarly accomplishment in any professional discipline is publication in a national peer-reviewed journal. Many journals accept small studies such as those done as part of a senior honors project or thesis. Disciplines vary as to what they will consider, but listed herein are ten suggested steps that faculty can recommend to students who want to have their honors work submitted, reviewed, and possibly accepted for publication in such a journal. Just going through the steps will give the honors student valuable experience. Even more importantly, the review process often provides the student with excellent comments by …

Integrating An Honors Minor, Education Major And Global Teacher Preparation, David M. Bishop, Kelli Sittason

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In the pages that follow we will describe an exciting collaboration between our university’s College of Education and Honors Program. In the twenty-two-year history of the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University (NKU), we have averaged only one education major per year completing an Honors Capstone Project. This statistic stands in stark contrast to the fact that Education regularly has the third or fourth highest number of pre-majors beginning an honors minor. Some efforts have been made in recent years to mesh requirements for the two programs and to improve student advising. However, the number of honors minor/education major students …

Pod Network News, Winter 2007

POD Network News

POD Network News is published by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education as a member service of the POD Network.

First Things First: Writing Strategies--The Gold Standard, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The "gold standard" in educational leadership journals is the research- based article. An article that is data-based will find a publication outlet much more readily than an opinion-based article. Although "N of 1" accounts are interesting, space in academic journals is a scarce commodity. Since your writing time may be limited and you may have a promotion and tenure clock to spur your writing frenzy, you would be wise to focus your efforts on research endeavors. Consider that the timeline between the submission of a research manuscript and its publication in a refereed journal may be as long as 18 …

Superintendent Leadership Style: A Gendered Discourse Analysis, Dawn C. Wallin, Carolyn Crippen

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Using a blend of social constructionism, critical feminism, and dialogue theory, the discourse of nine Manitoba superintendents is examined to determine if it illustrates particular gendered assumptions regarding superintendents' leadership style. Qualitative inquiry and analysis methods were utilized to identify emerging themes, or topics of talk. Six topics of talk emerged in the discourse regarding leadership style. Since "talk is a form of social action worthy of study in itself" (Chase, 1995, p. 25), each of these topics was analyzed to illustrate how men and women in the superintendency in Manitoba negotiate a gendered social action when they talk about …

2007-08 Unopa Annual Report

UNOPA: Annual Reports

INSIDE THIS REPORT President’s Report.....................................1 Elected Officer’s Reports............................4 Financial Statement...................................5 Standing Committee Reports......................6 National Activities....................................18 UNOPA Bylaws........................................20 UNOPA Standing Rules............................25 Duties of Committees..............................26

2007-08 Unopa Executive Board Minutes

UNOPA: Minutes

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2007-08 Unopa General Meeting Minutes

UNOPA: Minutes

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2007-08 Unopa Affiliates

UNOPA: Documents and Publications

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2007-08 Unopa Minutes

UNOPA: Minutes

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