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A Requiem For Certification, A Song Of Honors, Jeffrey Portnoy
A Requiem For Certification, A Song Of Honors, Jeffrey Portnoy
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive
This essay rejects any notion of professionalization in honors programs and colleges as well as any plan for the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) that is connected to implementing a process of certification or accreditation. The author offers historical details about the machinations of a small group of powerful NCHC officers who tried to turn the organization into an accrediting or certifying body and how they were successfully blocked by grassroots opposition from the membership and by a large group of NCHC past presidents who recognized the ill will and divisiveness that would result. The author discusses the damage that …