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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

2022

Higher education—honors programs & colleges; communicative competence; University of Delaware (DE)—Honors College

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Why Honors Matters, James A. Keller Jan 2022

Why Honors Matters, James A. Keller

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the author reflects on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience.

In 2022, I turned half-a-century old. I have a loving family, good friends, and a really interesting career at a large law firm. By any measure, I am a lucky man. So how, over these fifty years, did I get here? Supportive parents, who were also public-school educators, are unquestionably the foundation. A good law school education? No doubt, that also helped. But time and again, …