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Honors As Skunkworks, Paul Strong

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For the Fall/Winter 2005 issue of the JNCHC, Dail W. Mullins, Jr. was asked to address the question, “What is Honors?” He “began by researching several dozen honors program websites from around the country and came to the quick realization that their various program descriptions all seem to be ‘cut from the same cloth’ and might very well have been produced by an ‘Honors Program Description Generator.’” This sentence was the first nudge I needed, and Linda Frost’s essay was the second, to write something I’d long been thinking about but was reluctant to state publicly: I believe the …

When It’S Bad Cess To Assess!, Jay Freyman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

It seems to me that efforts at outcome assessment in higher education are deficient because of a failure to understand what exactly it is that is being or should be assessed. Certainly, the object of such assessment should not be what, if anything, the student has learned in courses; grades for course work, grade inflation notwithstanding, should suffice to tell that tale.

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 7, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Susanna Finnell
Letter to the Editor -- Jay Freyman
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HONORS”
Saving Honors in the Age of Standardization -- Linda Frost
Using Learning Outcomes Assessment in Honors as a Defense Against Proposed Standardized Testing -- Steffen Wilson
Documenting the Achievements of Our Students without Compromising Excellence -- Jean Sorensen
Honors Assessment and Evaluation -- Cheryl Achterberg
When It’s Bad Cess to Assess! -- Jay Freyman
Accountable to Whom? Assessment for What? -- George Mariz
Business and Educational Values -- Jeffrey A. Portnoy …

Accountable To Whom? Assessment For What?, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Can there be anyone in the honors community or higher education who has not been assaulted by campus assessment initiatives in the recent past or the present? The current agitation surrounding this topic is equaled only by the absence of clear ideas about the purpose or utility of assessment. While assessment’s proponents believe that its aims and virtues are obvious, most of the academic community is either vexed or bemused by the whole thing. How has higher education arrived at this juncture, and where are we going in regard to assessment? I will try to give some answers to these …

Building A City Of Ladies With Christine De Pizan And Arkansas State University Honors Students, Frances Malpezzi

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” Adrienne Rich—American poet, feminist, and social critic—expressed exhilaration and confusion in being alive “in a time of awakening consciousness” (18). Self-knowledge, Rich emphasized, eludes us until we recognize and question the basic assumptions that shape our perspectives. Re-visioning is an important part of this process. For Rich, re-visioning is not the meticulous correcting of our comma splices and dangling modifiers but “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction” (18). The task Rich set before herself is not just the …

Business And Educational Values, Jeffrey Portnoy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In “Saving Honors in the Age of Standardization,” Linda Frost astutely observes the confluence of two disturbing trends in higher education that are generating a current so deep and swift that one wonders if resistance is possible: the business model for education and the standardization of educational processes, especially through testing. Hardly an issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education appears without an article or discussion featuring business practices or business leaders dominating the landscape of this or that college or university. Rarely does a meeting with or missive from an administrator not include some element directly connected to one …

Creating An Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach, Nancy Stanlick

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

To become an honors student (that is, to be accepted into an honors college or program) requires satisfying specific entrance requirements, most or all of which are directly related to a student’s grade point average and potential for success in a rigorous academic environment. To gain entrance into and be present in an organization or community are not sufficient, however, to characterize a person as a complete member of it. There is more to community membership than simple presence. To be a member of a community is also to perform actions and develop or possess traits of character consistent with …

Using Learning Outcomes Assessment In Honors As A Defense Against Proposed Standardized Testing, Steffen Wilson

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Learning outcomes assessment (LOA) is the self-assessment of self-created learning goals for students at the class, department, college, and university level. In higher education, LOA is being imposed upon us by our accrediting bodies (Eaton, Fryshman, Hope, Scanlon, & Crow, 2005; Lingenfelter & Lenth, 2005; Nichols, 1991, 1995; Wergin, 2005). This is difficult for us because LOA is not a part of the university culture, and there are very few people on most campuses skilled in the implementation of LOA. There is also very little in the way of release time and other resources that are being provided to implement …

Pod Network News, Spring/Summer 2006

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

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Course Portfolio For Arch333/Cnst305: Building Environmental Technical Systems, Tim Wentz

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

Due to the critical nature of team-based learning in this course, I propose to study the learning aspects of team-based learning, as I envision it in this course. Not having formally investigated this issue previously, I am left with a sense that some teams perform much better than other teams. I am looking for those criteria that separate the good teams from underperforming teams. Some of the issues that occur to me as I start this process include the following: - Team size - Academic diversity - Discipline diversity - Gender diversity - Geographic diversity How students best learn in …

“Major Sponsored Program And Faculty Awards For Research And Creative Activity For 2005

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

I am pleased to present the fourth annual “Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Activity” report. This booklet highlights the successes of University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during 2005. The funding sources, projects and investigators on major sponsored program awards received during the year are listed, as well as patents issued, published books and scholarship, fellowships and other recognitions. New this year are intellectual property licenses and performances and exhibitions in the fine and performing arts. The list is impressive and continues to grow each year—further evidence the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is on the move! We work …

2006-07 Unopa General Meeting Minutes

UNOPA: Minutes

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2006-07 Unopa Affiliates

UNOPA: Documents and Publications

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Unopa Notes 2006

UNOPA: Newsletters

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2006-07 Unopa Annual Report

UNOPA: Annual Reports

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2006-07 Unopa Awards

UNOPA: Documents and Publications

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Office Of Research -- Annual Report 2005-2006

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Table of Contents

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Exploring the final frontier – extreme light . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Nano discovery is golden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New center fuels energy research . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 6
Imparting the human touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 39, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2005–2006

Nebraska Transcript

Table of Contents

2 Five New Faculty Members Bring Variety of Experiences

Career Transitions: Tasha Everman Replaces Notre-Dame-Bound Carla DeVelder as Career Services Director

College Has New Look

McHenry Landscapes Show "This is Nebraska's Law School"

Limerick Summer Program Gives Students Opportunity to Study Comparative Law in Ireland

Harris: "Why Plessy v. Fergusion Is Still Good Law"

Congratulations, Class of 2005!

Rosales Leaves Law College With Mission To Help Others

Family Tradition Ceremony

Seeking Justice: Prof. Alicia Henderson's Tenure Lecture

Alumni Council Awards Honor Distinguished Achievements

Class of 1955 50-Year Reunion Features Camaraderie, Memories

Kratz: White Collar Crime Specialist Founds …

Writing And American Rhetoric (English 204 H1), Bebe Nickolai

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This seminar develops students’ skills in writing argumentative essays and speeches. Students examine the American rhetorical tradition in texts ranging from sermons of the Great Awakening to recent Presidential addresses. These texts serve as models as students write arguments demonstrating their knowledge of rhetorical strategies. Through a variety of written assignments, students discover their own most effective voices as writers. When students finish the class, they should be able to write effective argumentative essays based on research. Students will participate in small group work, peer editing, conferences with the instructor, and presentations.

How To Develop And Promote An Undergraduate Research Day, Michael Cundall

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Undergraduate research is becoming an ever larger focus for universities and colleges. Many institutions already sponsor undergraduate research forums, and there is a national council, the Council on Undergraduate Research (www.cur.org), for the promotion of undergraduate research. As universities of all types become more intent on having their instructors and professors develop their own research, undergraduate students are being sought after to aid professors’ established research projects where the work done in these areas can lead to later independent research. In some cases students are encouraged to develop their own research projects with the aid of a faculty member. Some …

An Honors Pilot Course: Cross-Cultural Service And Inquiry-Based Learning In Mérida, Mexico, Theresa Minick, Victoria Bocchicchio

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The guiding document for Kent State University’s Honors College, “The Nature of an Honors Course,” describes some of the unique aspects that set Honors courses apart from non-Honors courses. We expect an Honors course to be an experience and a process; we encourage students to take initiatives in determining the directions of the courses. One of our driving goals is to find ways to help students extract more intellectual value out of their university experiences, and the cross-cultural pilot course in Mérida, México described here was designed with that goal in mind.

Great Questions That Have Changed The World* (Hon 183), Dave Pruett

Honors in Practice Online Archive

“Which [do we] love more, the small island of [our] so-called knowledge or the sea of infinite mystery?” (Karl Rahner). “Great Questions” are those that radically alter our perceptions of physical reality, of self, and/or of our place in the universe. For example, Jacob Bronowski observed of Einstein that he was “a man who could ask immensely simple questions” from whose answers he could “hear God thinking.” Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity each originated from simple questions and Gedanken (thought) experiments that can be readily grasped by ordinary persons. It is the answers that are extraordinary. The course …

Community Beyond Honors: Butler University’S Community Fellows Program, Margaret Brabant, Anne Wilson

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Campus collaboration between academic areas is often encouraged but can be difficult to implement in practice. Opportunities for instructional collaboration where the goals of each program must be met are even more challenging. Despite such challenges, a collaboration known as the Community Fellows Program was initiated between the Honors Program and the Center for Citizenship and Community at Butler University. The Community Fellows Program has not only brought together academic and programmatic areas at Butler but also introduced Indianapolis community leaders to honors students, faculty, and staff. While our students have appreciated the community leaders’ “real world” experiences, the community …

Editorial, Volume 2 - 2006, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Table of Contents:

Editorial Policy

Submission Guidelines

Dedication to Ted Estess

Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long

Honors in Chile: New Engagements in the Higher Education System by Juan Carlos Skewes, Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio, and Frederick J. Conway

Dominican University of California’s Honors Program and its Relation to University Heritage and Mission by Jayati Ghosh, M. Patricia Dougherty, and Kenneth Porada

Community Beyond Honors: Butler University’s Community Fellows Program by Margaret Brabant and Anne M. Wilson

Leadership in Scholarship Program by Matthew L. Smith and Jason C. Vallee

How to Develop and Promote an Undergraduate Research Day by Michael K. …

Honors In Practice, Volume 2 (Complete Issue)

Honors in Practice Online Archive

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Ted Estess
Editor’s Introduction-- Ada Long

HONORS DESIGNS
Honors in Chile: New Engagements in the Higher Education System-- Juan Carlos Skewes, Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio, and Frederick J. Conway
Dominican University of California’s Honors Program and its Relation to University Heritage and Mission-- Jayati Ghosh, M. Patricia Dougherty, and Kenneth Porada

HONORS INITIATIVES
Community Beyond Honors: Butler University’s Community Fellows Program Margaret Brabant and Anne M. Wilson
Leadership in Scholarship Program Matthew L. Smith and Jason C. Vallee
How to Develop and Promote an Undergraduate Research Day Michael K. Cundall Jr …

Leadership In Scholarship Program, Matthew Smith, Jason Vallee

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The Leadership in Scholarship program is an enhancement to the Johnson & Wales University Honors Program that has been piloted at our Denver Campus for the last three years. It upgrades a cross-disciplinary student honors experience by adding an orientation program, tailored on-campus services, and a living and learning community to the system-wide honors program. It is housed in the Community Leadership Institute, a co-curricular department that adds value to a student’s experience by providing leadership and community service opportunities for every student on campus via leadership studies courses, service learning, a visiting faculty program and a selective leadership development …

Dominican University Of California’S Honors Program And Its Relation To University Heritage And Mission, Jayati Ghosh, M. Patricia Dougherty, Kenneth Porada

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In this paper, we discuss how we came to restructure the honors program at Dominican University of California and fit it more closely to the institutional mission and Dominican values. The mission statement of Dominican University of California reads: “We are an independent, learner-centered, international university which interweaves Dominican values, the liberal arts and sciences and the skills and knowledge necessary to live and work in an independent world.” The four Dominican values are study, service, community, and reflection. Our primary interest is the way adaptation of an honors program to its unique campus mission and values can strengthen the …

Cultural Enrichment: Finding Where You Fit, Exploring Individuality And Community, Leslie Hahn, Jim Rogers

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This one-credit-hour living, learning community course is designed for first-year students who live in the Honors & Scholars residence hall (Tappan Hall). This course will help you prepare to make the most of your college experience and create a sense of community with your peers. Within the context of community and individuality, we will explore the three tenets of the Miami Honors & Scholars Program: Scholarship, Leadership, and Service.

They Filched Our Program! How To Turn That Into A Good Thing, Anne Wilson, Melissa Ludwa

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The Butler University Honors Program, like many other honors programs and colleges, is often the generator of “good ideas” on campus. We are considered an experimental classroom environment for piloting new courses, programming ideas, and/or introducing potential new areas of study. Both faculty and students recognize this characteristic of the program, and we are pleased to serve as a sort of laboratory for other campus initiatives. However, several key pieces of our Honors Program were recently folded into other aspects of our own university. While we know that imitation is the highest form of flattery, maintaining a distinct honors program …

Preface, Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preface to volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Sandra Chadwick Blossey of Rollins College.