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The Newest “Basic Characteristic” Of A Fully Developed Honors Program, Robert Spurrier
The Newest “Basic Characteristic” Of A Fully Developed Honors Program, Robert Spurrier
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After years of conversations about the sixteen “Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program” (adopted in 1994), NCHC has added a new Basic Characteristic to the arsenal of the honors dean, director, or coordinator seeking to demonstrate that a particular institution’s honors program or honors college complies with NCHC’s “best practices” documents. NCHC’s Board of Directors approved the newest characteristic in November, 2007:
A fully developed program will provide priority enrollment for honors students who are active in the program in recognition of their unique class scheduling needs.
Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana
Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana
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As we attempt to foresee the future, we recognize that the increase in the number of honors colleges over the past decade appears to be an accelerating trend. We base our predictions on the continuation of this trend and on our need as honors administrators to anticipate and welcome the multiple impacts it will have on current and future honors colleges. We have selected four connected areas as the focus of our consideration: mission; curriculum; assessment and accreditation; and recruiting.
Creating Community: Honors Welcome Week Programming, Lauren Pouchak, Maureen Kelleher, Melissa Lulay
Creating Community: Honors Welcome Week Programming, Lauren Pouchak, Maureen Kelleher, Melissa Lulay
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The Northeastern University Honors Program established its first-year Welcome Week initiative in 2006 as part of our movement toward enhancing the goals of an Honors Living Learning Community. The Welcome Week is characterized by a series of linked events that bring together various on-campus members of our honors community for the common goal of welcoming new students to campus. Members of that on-campus community include faculty, administrators, staff, and upper-class honors students. Welcome Week introduces new students to the opportunities and challenges of a university honors experience.
The American Musical As An Honors Course: Obstacles And Possibilities, Mara Parker
The American Musical As An Honors Course: Obstacles And Possibilities, Mara Parker
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Music courses are often problematic for the general undergraduate student as they focus on abstract concepts, employ a specialized vocabulary, and examine compositions not part of most people’s everyday listening repertoire. Many will acknowledge that while they enjoy listening to music, their background and experiences are limited and steeped in the familiar. Appreciation is based on personal taste and often fails to consider historical context, structural components, and stylistic trends. Despite these obstacles, it is possible to construct a meaningful and challenging course for students, regardless of their major, as long as one is willing to use music not as …
Using External Review In The Honors Project Process, Joyce W. Fields
Using External Review In The Honors Project Process, Joyce W. Fields
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Understanding the competitive nature of applications to graduate programs, Ferrari and Davis (2000) surveyed psychology faculty to discover their level of awareness of resources for undergraduate research publication. They found that most of the psychology faculty members they surveyed were unaware of such resources. Their finding made me curious about how many honors directors, faculty, and advisors are aware of such resources for their students not only in psychology but in all disciplines across the curriculum. Most of us realize the importance of helping our students become competitive for graduate work, and we know that publication and/or presentation of research …
Determining The Significance Of Honors, Katherine Bruce
Determining The Significance Of Honors, Katherine Bruce
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The title of my address is “Determining the Significance of Honors.” That’s a hefty title. This summer I was reading the “numbers” issue of the JNCHC and thinking about how we measure impact and effects related to honors education when Hallie Savage asked me what the title of my presidential address would be. Given my academic discipline and my current thoughts about assessment centered on that JNCHC issue, I thought that the title Determining the Significance of Honors would be illustrative of my interests and focus.
Honors In Practice, Volume 4 (Complete Issue)
Honors In Practice, Volume 4 (Complete Issue)
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CONTENTS
Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Elizabeth C. Beck
Editor’s Introduction Ada Long
2007 CONFERENCE PLENARY ADDRESSES
Determining the Significance of Honors Katherine E. Bruce
Portable Widgets and Techie Tattoos: Honors of the Future Rosalie C. Otero
Honors in 2025: Becoming What You Emulate Craig T. Cobane
Honors 2025: The Future of the Honors College Richard Ira Scott and Philip L. Frana
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Majoring in the Minor: A Closer Look at Experiential Learning Bernice Braid
Cultural Studies as the Foundation for an Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic and Personal Growth Sara E. Quay and Amy M. Damico
INNOVATIVE …
Mentoring Honors Thesis Students: A Lawyer’S Perspective, Linda Vila
Mentoring Honors Thesis Students: A Lawyer’S Perspective, Linda Vila
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As a mentor of thesis students in an honors program, I find that students acquire tremendously helpful substantive knowledge through courses they take during college but rarely develop a honed skill set necessary to succeed in graduate or professional education or employment in the real world. These skills range from problem solving to effective communication to analytical thinking. To address these weaknesses, I constructed an approach, borrowed from my law school days, for engaging students in an active, student-centered learning process during the thesis stage of their honors curriculum. My purpose is to provide them the opportunity to cultivate, if …
Learning By Leading And Leading By Teaching: A Student-Led Honors Seminar, Luke Vassiliou
Learning By Leading And Leading By Teaching: A Student-Led Honors Seminar, Luke Vassiliou
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In the fall of 2004, the honors program at the two-year Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College offered six core classes and two one-hour seminars for the Honors students, and nothing else. The classes themselves were rewarding for both students and teachers and encouraged student participation, but since the program’s existence was limited to the space within the classroom walls, it had low visibility on campus and none beyond our campus. As a new (and completely inexperienced) honors director, I consulted both the NCHC executive committee’s statement of “Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program” (1994) and Rew Godow’s article on …
Honors Calculus: An Historical Approach, Todd Timmons
Honors Calculus: An Historical Approach, Todd Timmons
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When the honors program at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (then Westark Community College) began in 1990, it was decided that the honors mathematics course would be College Algebra, a decision based on the premise that our student population required an opportunity to earn honors credit at an introductory level, at least in mathematics. The course developed by the mathematics department met with some success by stimulating interest in algebra topics using an environmental modeling approach. The textbook, Earth Algebra (by Schuafele, Zumoff, Sims, and Sims), provided a wonderful opportunity for our students to learn the techniques of College Algebra …
A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir Of Learning And Teaching By Betty Krasne, Paul Strong
A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir Of Learning And Teaching By Betty Krasne, Paul Strong
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Betty Krasne’s A Dangerous Thing: A Memoir of Learning and Teaching opens with her paternal grandparents, the Krasnoschezeks (the name means “red cheeks” and probably refers to a beard), leaving the Ukraine and its pogroms for the safety and hope of America. Once here, they set up as retail grocers, then wholesalers, then owners of Krasdale Foods and Bernice Foods. Both sides of the family make a good living. Betty’s mother’s parents, the Goldsteins, own a Philadelphia brownstone with a Steinway grand in the living room; her father’s family lives in a large apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West. They …
Wholly Spirit: Searching For A Plausible God By C. Grey Austin, Sam Schuman
Wholly Spirit: Searching For A Plausible God By C. Grey Austin, Sam Schuman
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Long before NCHC had a paid, professional staff, Grey Austin was one of a small group of legendary executive secretary/treasurers (along with Jean Philips, John Portz, Lothar Tresp, Bill Mech, and Earl Brown, Jr.) who kept our organization functional and solvent. He served in that capacity in the 1970s and was also the president of our organization early in the following decade. Those of us in honors “of a certain age” recall Grey as a thoughtful, quiet, gentle, skilled leader and manager. Some of us, too, will never forget his characterization of honors leadership: being an honors director, he said, …
Literary Ornithology: Bird-Watching Across Academic Disciplines With Honors Students, Kateryna Schray
Literary Ornithology: Bird-Watching Across Academic Disciplines With Honors Students, Kateryna Schray
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As professors of literature, we have a fairly good chance of engaging our students when we teach Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” True, the text can seem daunting on a first read, but who can resist a moody if not downright creepy ghost story told by the survivor of a nightmarish ordeal to a detained and gradually mesmerized wedding guest? The story has an intriguing psychological component in the progressive isolation of its main narrator, strong theological references, and vivid tactile images. And it has a bird in it, an albatross, the image of which has …
Creating Faculty-Student Interaction, Lindsay Roberts, Jessie Salmon
Creating Faculty-Student Interaction, Lindsay Roberts, Jessie Salmon
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Creating a thriving community is a challenge for any honors program or college, especially for a program in transition like the Honors College at Towson University. The Honors College has approximately nine hundred students out of about sixteen thousand undergraduate students, and within the past three years it has undergone major curricular and structural changes. To keep honors students and faculty connected and invested in their honors experience through this transition period, the Honors College has focused on establishing a tighter bond between faculty and students, one that is unique to the college and recognized by the university as a …
Cultural Studies As The Foundation For An Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic And Personal Growth, Sara Quay, Amy Damico
Cultural Studies As The Foundation For An Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic And Personal Growth, Sara Quay, Amy Damico
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A new honors program based on the field of cultural studies rigorously combines theory and practice, resulting in significant academic and personal growth among participating honors students. Particular activities and assignments connect academic theories to real world experiences, including writing a ‘shopping’ paper, eating dinner at an Indian restaurant, conducting an ethnography, playing the Game of Life, and participating in a walking tour of Ground Zero. Pre- and post-test assessments, five qualitative surveys, and an end-of-the-year comprehensive portfolio are used to document student learning. A new honors journal publishes an essay by each student from the first year in the …
Honored To Be A Part Of Service-Learning, Patricia Powell
Honored To Be A Part Of Service-Learning, Patricia Powell
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What do an adolescent self-esteem workshop for African-American girls, a food and clothing pantry, a Young Authors event in Montego Bay, Jamaica, an HIV/AIDS awareness brochure for a Chicago health-care facility, an after-school program for low income students, and an international student awareness survey have in common? Each started as an idea born of a personal passion and then grew into a semester-long service-learning project for six honors students at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois.
Portable Widgets And Techie Tattoos: Honors Of The Future, Rosalie Ortero
Portable Widgets And Techie Tattoos: Honors Of The Future, Rosalie Ortero
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Just twenty-five years ago, in 1982, Gray Austin from Ohio State was the NCHC President. William Daniel from Winthrop College was the program chair for the NCHC conference that was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference fee was $46 and a room at the Hilton cost $37 a night. Writing Across the Curriculum was big news, and interdisciplinary seminars centered on the Great Books concept were a major component of honors programs. Today, there are honors programs and colleges at large and small universities, colleges, and community colleges. Service Learning is big news as is Outcomes Assessment. Honors curricula …
Sweden In The Summer: Developing An Honors Study-Abroad Program, Gayle Levy
Sweden In The Summer: Developing An Honors Study-Abroad Program, Gayle Levy
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I want to begin this paper by making a claim with which, at first, not everyone might agree. Any good study abroad experience can be considered an honors experience. This short sentence raises any number of questions, which I cannot fully answer in this space, nor is it the primary topic of my essay. It is, however, a way to contextualize our one-month honors study abroad program at University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The Senior Honors Thesis: From Millstone To Capstone, Jim Lacey
The Senior Honors Thesis: From Millstone To Capstone, Jim Lacey
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When I became director of a small college honors program, many students perceived the senior honors thesis to be a millstone. Even worse, the word was being bruited about that students didn’t really have to complete the thesis, that the only penalty was not being listed in the separate section for honors scholars in the graduation program. Although the discussion below is about redeeming the thesis process in a small program, some of the strategies should be applicable to large programs as well.
Editorial, Volume 4 - 2008, Ada Long, Dail Mullins
Editorial, Volume 4 - 2008, Ada Long, Dail Mullins
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Table of Contents:
Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Elizabeth C. Beck
Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long
Determining the Significance of Honors by Katherine E. Bruce
Portable Widgets and Techie Tattoos: Honors of the Future by Rosalie C. Otero
Honors in 2025: Becoming What You Emulate by Craig T. Cobane
Honors 2025: The Future of the Honors College by Richard Ira Scott and Philip L. Frana
Majoring in the Minor: A Closer Look at Experiential Learning by Bernice Braid
Cultural Studies as the Foundation for an Honors Program: Documenting Students’ Academic and Personal Growth by Sara E. Quay and Amy …
Literary New England: Planning And Implementing Domestic Travel Study, Craig Cobane, Derick Strode
Literary New England: Planning And Implementing Domestic Travel Study, Craig Cobane, Derick Strode
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Domestic travel courses provide honors programs/colleges a variety of educational opportunities to immerse students in a culture different from their own. This essay presents one example of an honors-sponsored domestic travel course and discusses its differences from and similarities to study abroad courses. Additionally, we discuss the various elements that go into conceiving, developing, and executing such an educational experience. The essay is structured to provide a roadmap for creating a domestic travel course.
Honors In 2025: Becoming What You Emulate, Craig Cobane
Honors In 2025: Becoming What You Emulate, Craig Cobane
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Predicting the future is always difficult and fraught with many dangers; just ask your local weather forecaster. The process of looking into the future, even if the predictions are in error, is nevertheless an important tool for honors faculty, staff, and administrators; it is part of the strategic planning process that helps develop new and interesting ideas. The goal of this essay is to look over the horizon, make some predictions about what honors education will look like in the year 2025, and encourage people to think about the future of honors. My predictions will most likely seem naive to …