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Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding health insurance, budget, Hurricane Katrina, Preston Student Success Center, website compliance, tenure, promotion, winter term, Gate Keeper Courses, English as Second Language International, administrative handbook, workday, accreditation fees, clinical ranks, graduate assistants, awards and academic calendar.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Richardson, Kelly. Western Commercials Promote Academics
• Fontana, Alex. Robert Dietle Seeks Re-eletion As Regent
• Teague, Hawkins. Student’s Delivery Job Is ‘Supreme’ – Chris Smith
• McNamara, Andrew. Benefit Concert Raises Money for Katrina Victims
• Bosken, Nina. Professors Encourage Class ‘Clicks’
• Coulter, Amber. Western Offers Winter Break Shuttle to Nashville Airport
• Fontana, Alex. Bracelets to Be Trademarked
• Double trouble Renovations to Garrett Center Subway Have Failed to Solve Congestion Problems
• Gibbar, Joshua. Grise Hall Climate Needs Control
• Rowland, Linda. Thanks to the Volunteers – International Festival
• McNamara, …

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 4, 2005 meeting.

Koinonia, John Maxwell, Tim Elmore, Glen Kinoshita, Andrew Shriver, Todd Ream, Jerry Schwenke, Brie Mcdaniel

Koinonia

Conference Spotlight
From Ordinary to Extraordinary, John Maxwell

Leadership Development
EPIC Leadership: Preparing EPIC Leaders Using Images, Experiences, and Relationship, Tim Elmore

Diversity & Community
Diversity in Evangelical Higher Education: An Interview with Will Kratt, Glen Kinoshita

Sophomore Community Groups, Andrew Shriver

Thinking Theologically: Considering Community-Part 1, Todd Ream

Book Reviews
A History of American Higher Education, reviewed by Jerry Schwenke

Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers, reviewed by Brie McDaniel

Reflections
Snapshots from ACSD 2005

Features
The President's Corner

Editor's Disk

Ua61/5 Social Work Newsletter, Wku Social Work

WKU Administration Documents

Social Work newsletter includes articles:

• MSW Pioneers Celebrate Graduation
• Note from the Department Head
• Social Work in Global Perspective
• Graduate Student Organization
• Meet Our New Faculty & Staff – Vivian Hurt, Janice Chadha, Deirdre Greene
• Focus on Field: Field Supervisor Michelle Hines

Ua11/1 Echo, October, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

Prism #10, October 2005, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Instruction Size Report, Fall 2005, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Gives breakdowns of student credit hours offered by status of instructor, average class size overall, and average class size by status of instructor.

Ua66/5 Newsletter, Wku Agriculture

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Agriculture Department re: faculty/staff, students/alumni, student organizations and clubs and donors.

Making Value Visible: Excellence In Campus-Community Partnerships In The Arts, Humanities, And Design, Cynthia Koch

Imagining America

This study sets forth what practitioners themselves believe to be the characteristics of excellence in campus-community partnerships in the arts, humanities, and design. It presents the fruits of a research project of modest scale. But in so doing it reveals something large: a flourishing world of work populated by faculty artists and scholars; staff members of nonprofit organizations and public cultural institutions; and creative citizens working through robust networks. Attentive to the texture and tones of practioners' voices, the report responds to people who are clearly hungry to address questions about excellence.

Making Value Visible opens a window on the …

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 2005 meeting.

Ua1b5 New Faculty 2005-2006, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

List of new WKU faculty.

Pod Network News, Fall 2005

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

No abstract provided.

What Is Honors?, Dail W. Mullins Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For several years I have edited a small, in-house journal for the School of Education’s Technology Advisory Committee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a journal which is distributed to the faculty and posted on the School of Education’s website. Until last issue. The last issue I submitted—while dutifully made available to the faculty and staff—never made it onto the website. No one offered an explanation, and I never inquired about the matter—after all, I was still able to add the activity to my already portly and now largely useless post-retirement vita—but I remained mildly curious about it …

In Praise Of Silence, Bebe Nickolai

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I thought I was ready for her, a sophomore in my honors rhetoric class. I have been teaching the honors rhetoric class for almost twenty years. Yet every semester I revise my syllabus for the class as I realize that honors students can handle even bigger challenges—more difficult readings, more demanding writing assignments.

Comparison Of The Academic Achievement Of First-Year Female Honors Program And Non-Honors Program Engineering Students, Gayle Hartleroad

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of first-year female engineering students based on participation, or lack thereof, in the honors program. A single research question was developed for this study: “Is there a significant difference in academic achievement of first-year female engineering Honors Program students and non-honors program students?” The problem for this study was that many students in the Freshman Engineering program at Purdue University believed that participation in an honors program damaged students’ grade point averages with its challenging curriculum. This was especially true for beginning female students entering a traditionally male-dominated career …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jocelyn E. Whitehead Jackson
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “WHAT IS HONORS?”
What is Honors? -- Dail W. Mullins, Jr.
What is an Honors Student? -- Jay Freyman
Teaching Honors -- Sam Schuman
Honors as an Adjective: Response to Jay Freyman -- Len Zane
What Honors Can Do -- Vince Brewton
Is, Ought, and Honors -- Daniel Pinti
A Way of Life -- Sriram Khé
In Praise of Silence -- Bebe Nickolai
A Student like Me -- Bonnie D. Irwin
Honors: When Value-Added is Really Added Value -- Jacqueline P. …

Honors: When Value-Added Is Really Added Value, Jacqueline Kelleher

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Sometimes I look at the responsibilities and demands placed on me in my current position and cannot believe I haven’t cracked up yet. In this era of accountability and “show me the data,” institutional assessment directors like me are constantly bombarded with challenges that require quick, critical, divergent thinking, analytical reasoning, effective speaking, and, to some extent, creative writing. As both a professor and administrator at a state university, I live and breathe producing evidence that we as an institution are having an impact on student learning. When I was growing up, I never imagined I would end up being …

Honors As An Adjective: Response To Jay Freyman, Len Zane

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As an ex-honors program/college CEO, the question raised by this Forum— ”What is an Honors (fill in the blank)?”—got me reminiscing about the old days. In some sense the best answers are the obviously circular answers. An honors student is a student participating in an honors program. An honors curriculum is the curriculum required to graduate with honors and is made up, obviously, of honors courses. The people teaching those courses are by necessity honors faculty. But how can an honors course be identified? Well, it is one populated by honors students that meets some curricular requirement of an honors …

A Way Of Life, Sriram Khe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The question “What is Honors?” could not have been posed at a better time for me: earlier this summer, I took up a new responsibility of directing the Western Oregon University (WOU) Honors Program while only in my fourth year at the university. Work has commenced at WOU to prepare for the accreditation process, which is also a wonderful opportunity to think about questions such as “What is Honors?”

A Student Like Me, Bonnie D. Irwin

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Jay Freyman suggests that we often define “honors” (and, I suspect, many other things) based on our own experiences and observations as undergraduates. He then provides us with a valuable means of uncovering those diamonds in the rough and shading our eyes from those sparkling cubic zirconia who may have the resumés but lack the drive to take full advantage of the honors experience. This selection process has become even more complicated by the intrusion of parents who act as brokers for their students and who, despite our best efforts to thwart them, sometimes overshadow the stellar qualifications of their …

Book Review How To Write A Ba Thesis: A Practical Guide From Your First Ideas To Your Finished Paper (Chicago Guides To Writing, Editing, And Publishing) By Charles Lipson, Hallie Savage

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

A hallmark of honors education is high-quality undergraduate research. For honors faculty and administrators, curricular planning that results in excellent thesis research can be a special challenge because honors students represent a wide range of disciplines and vary in competency and preparation for research. How to Write a BA Thesis meets this challenge. It is a well-developed, practical guidebook for accomplishment of honors and/or undergraduate research. The contents are built on a developmental continuum or time table beginning with the conceptual basis for a thesis. As such, it is applicable to one-semester projects as well as theses or other indepth …

What Honors Students Want (And Expect): The Views Of Top Michigan High School And College Students, James P. Hill

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Often missing in an overall assessment of honors is a broad, comparative analysis of what top academic students want and expect from college and more particularly from an honors experience. Limited case studies or theoretical research articles analyzing how honors students think or perform may overlook or undervalue this important voice in the honors discourse. This article, although in some respects also just a larger-scale case study, has a broader perspective than many similar studies of honors students. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the expectations of prospective and current college honors students. This study also compares the …

Redemptive Memory: The Christianization Of The Holocaust In America, Laura Bender Herron

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

There has been a considerable debate among historians concerning the role of the Holocaust in the American collective memory. Since the watershed year 1993, when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors on the Mall in Washington, DC, and the film Schindler’s List debuted, the level of awareness of the Holocaust in the public mind has been at an all-time high in the United States. The question at the heart of this academic discussion is how Americans have come to identify so strongly with an experience that occurred over sixty years ago, on foreign shores, to a group …

Editorial Matter For Volume 6, 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 Jocelyn E. Whitehead Jackson
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Characteristics Of The Contemporary Honors College* A Descriptive Analysis Of A Survey Of Nchc Member Colleges, Peter Sederberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Every year the number of honors colleges across the country increases. Most of these new colleges emerge out of pre-existing honors programs, an origin that suggests that the change reflects an interest in raising the public profile of honors education at a particular institution. Sometimes this transformation entails only a cosmetic name change; other times, institutions take the opportunity to review what they are providing in honors education and how they might enhance it.

The Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Honors Council recognized that the NCHC ought to take a strong interest in this phenomenon. If an institution is …

“What Is An Honors Student?”, Jay Freyman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

It is first necessary to recognize the distinction between the questions “What is an honors student?” or better “What are the characteristics of an honors student?” and “How do you recognize a student with those characteristics?” The first of these two questions is easier to approach since it is more a matter of prescription than of description, a presentation of an ideal rather than a recognition of an actual state. We can all list characteristics which we would like or expect those special students to have who are worthy in our estimation of the designation “honors.” These expectations, I submit, …

Is, Ought, And Honors, Daniel Pinti

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Somewhat uncomfortably, I confess that the question “What is Honors?” rings a bit too Platonic to these ears. I hardly feel qualified to describe “Honors” in terms of its timeless, disembodied, ideal Form, although I suppose the shadows on the wall of my own humble cave are recognizable enough. Honors at Niagara University has as its primary purpose to enrich the academic experience of NU’s most talented students, and we try to do so by weaving coursework and individual research opportunities into each student’s curriculum in order to enhance both the general education and the major programs. We put on …

Teaching Honors, Sam Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Jay Freyman’s discussion of “What is an Honors Student?” sent me off on the somewhat quirky tangent of asking, “So What is an Honors Teacher?” Even quirkier, my musings led me to the conclusion that the best answer was provided by John Lennon and the Beatles: “all you need is love.”

Strategies For Advocacy In Higher Education, Marie Byrd-Blake, Linda Hampton Wesson

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The feminist phase theory (Tetreault, 1985) was used to examine the cultural patterns embedded in a department of a large, urban university, to classify how the faculty in the department perceived women, and to examine how our own behavior as two newly hired associate and assistant professors contributed or did not contribute to these patterns of behavior. Three years of field notes, anecdotal records, transcriptions of meetings, interviews, and student comments were categorized to develop experienced-derived strategies. These strategies encourage women in higher education to: (a) recognize their own enmeshment in patriarchal practices; (b) disrupt these practices through their own …