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Differences Between An Honors Program And Honors College: A Case Study, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors colleges are springing up across the country. In the last several years public institutions of higher education from Vermont to Cal State Fresno and from Maine to South Florida have started honors colleges. Private universities such as Baylor, Hofstra, and Auburn have honors colleges as well (see Digby, 2002). At least one writer, Murray Sperber (2000) of Indiana University, has speculated that the primary purpose for creating such colleges is to solicit funds from one or more major donors. Others point out that the transition from program to college is primarily symbolic, signifying a stronger central commitment to honors …

Honors, Inc., Kelly Younger

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Academics across the country are having an allergic reaction to the corporate model of operation being adopted by many universities. Terms like branding, collateral materials, budget controls, marketing strategies, and outcomes are causing a panic among faculty who believe that a customer satisfaction approach to higher education is anti-intellectual and that it leads to grade inflation, teaching toward evaluations, and learning as product, not process.

Honors programs in particular, often the standard bearers of undergraduate academic standards, are being asked to market themselves not only to the top prospective students, but also to the university administration at large. Honors is …

Research In Honors And Composition, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Throughout higher education, hundreds of writing programs at two-year, four-year, and graduate degree-granting institutions offer special honors sections of composition courses, many in conjunction with their institutions’ own honors programs. The wide and varied body of scholarship, however, that comprises composition theory and pedagogy contains very little discussion of honors composition at the college level. At the elementary and secondary levels, journals dedicated to gifted education, such as Roeper Review and Gifted Child Quarterly, regularly feature articles focused on research and pedagogical practices in teaching writing to gifted children. The two-year college level has produced a few pieces that …

The Forum For Honors: An Expanded View, Robert Roemer

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Even though Schuman and Estess disagree on what is appropriate for publication in the Forum for Honors, they are both correct. Schuman offers an orthodox view, describing marks of good scholarship and suggesting topics on Honors education suitable for scholarly work. Estess, perhaps because he writes in response to Schuman, is more mischievous and proposes that the Forum for Honors should for a while accept no articles on Honors education and in this interim should become a journal of interest to the liberally educated reader. In my opinion, both these opinions should be incorporated in the editorial policy of …

Honors In Research: Twenty Years Later, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Three papers (Estress, 1984; Roemer, 1984; Schuman, 1984) were published twenty years ago on the subject of research in honors. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine those thoughts in today’s context and to build forward on them where possible.

Honors programs have a tremendous, but as yet unrealized, potential to make a difference in the quality of higher education. Of course, honors programs should make a profound difference in the learning experience of all honors students. As Renzulli (1998) noted, we have “a responsibility to develop gifted behavior, not just find and certify it.” Yet, there are few …

Honors Scholarship And Forum For Honors, Sam Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

VADIMIR NABOKOV, my favorite twentieth-century author, was the most self-reflexive of novelists: he would have been delighted with our present enterprise, a discussion in the Forum for Honors devoted to the subject of Forum for Honors. The questions we are attempting to address, although they tend toward the self-referential, are important. Our journal has grown, evolved, and developed into something different than the admirable publication begun by Vishnu Bhatia and ably continued under the direction of Scott Vaughn. It is timely to pause, examine what Forum has been and is today, and, most vitally, what it should aim to …

Honors Scholarship: Another View, Ted Estess

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Samuel Beckett, not Vladimir Nabokov, is the most self-reflexive of novelists; and in a flurry of self-reflexivity, one of his narrators finally admits to a fundamental deficit: “if there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing?” In his usual compelling and concise way, Sam Schuman works in his article to invent an answer to the question, What ought we to be doing in Forum for Honors? And invent an answer we must, if the Forum is to fulfill its lofty ambition …

The Role Of Community College Honors Programs In Reducing Transfer Shock, Greg Phillips

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Community colleges have historically addressed the needs of a diverse population (Walker, 2001). A key goal for community colleges is to be a resource for all segments of the community (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2000). Walker (2001) reinforced this directive by stating that the community college purpose was “to bring higher education in its various forms into the community” (p. 9).

Community colleges have concentrated much of their attention on several subpopulations within the community, such as students in vocational training or certificate programs and academically under-prepared students (Outcalt, 1999). As the numbers of students increase, community colleges are …

Faculty Compensation And Course Assessment In Honors Composition, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

When my National Collegiate Honors Council monograph Honors Composition: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Practices was in its dissertation stage, an early draft contained information about potential administrative problems in offering honors composition courses. The initial questionnaire did not include specific questions regarding administrative concerns, but I was prompted to include such questions in the follow-up interviews after receiving a somewhat troubling email message from a questionnaire respondent, an excerpt of which is included here:

Our program is so different from those typically offered that I am not sure if any of our answers would be relevant to your concerns. Because …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 5, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Joan Digby
Student Research in Honors -- Joan Digby
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON RESEARCH IN HONORS
Honors Scholarship and Forum for Honors -- Sam Schuman
Honors Scholarship: Another View -- Ted Estess
The Forum for Honors: An Expanded View -- Robert E. Roemer
Honors in Research: Twenty Years Later -- Cheryl Achterberg
Research in Honors and Composition -- Annmarie Guzy

RESEARCH IN HONORS
Simple, Pure, and True: An Emergent Vision of Liberal Learning at the Research University -- Peter Sederberg
Honors Research in Nursing: Integration of Theory and Evidence-Based …

Honors Selection Processes: A Typology And Some Reflections, Richard Stoller

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Many honors programs advertise that honors education is what all undergraduate education would be in a world without resource constraints, so it is not surprising that honors programs have more interested prospects than available spaces. The question of how to select first-year honors students is therefore of interest both practically (in terms of finding the optimal student body) and philosophically (conformity to an ideal of justice, for instance). This article provides a general overview of current honors selection processes for incoming first-year students and discusses the ingredients of an optimal process.

The two “ideal types” of honors selection processes, in …

Honours Programmes As Laboratories Of Innovation: A Perspective From The Netherlands, Marca V.C. Wolfensberger, Pierre J. Van Eijl, Albert Pilot

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors programs are a recent and fast growing development in Dutch universities. The first such programs started in 1993. Ten years later 25 programs have been launched at ten universities. Significant are the diversity in the type of programs, their length, and their positioning in the curriculum. In this study we describe the types of programs, the certificates involved, the procedures for selection of the students, and the factors that influence their functioning as experiments for educational innovations. We also present a typology of honors programs in The Netherlands and describe their spin-off effects in the regular programs. At least …

Editorial Matter For Volume 5, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Joan Digby
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Honors Research In Nursing: Integration Of Theory And Evidence-Based Practice Using Multiple Modalities Of Thinking, Ellen Buckner

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Clinical judgment in nursing requires integration of a broad set of concepts from patho-physiological processes and situation-specific assessments to human caring and interpersonal communication. Nursing students consistently report difficulty in understanding and applying the complexities and ambiguities of care. They often perceive mixed messages and competing perspectives that cannot be resolved; their increasing frustration can produce anxiety about the conceptual tasks of scholarship. Honors research in nursing addresses this problem directly. Students have the opportunity to develop project ideas through all phases of the research process. They select a clinical question, relate it to nursing theory and current literature, design …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2004, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President: Things We Value - Tom Edwards, Thomas College

Metaphors for Teaching - Polly Parker and Bill Searle

Significant Learning Experiences: Integrated Course Design Designing the Learning We Want into the Learning Experiences - L. Dee Fink

NEFDC Fall Conference Keynote Speaker: L. Dee Fink

NEFDC Spring Roundup, June 4, 2004; theme: Building Community and Collaboration Through Technology

UNH To Offer Online Certificate in College Teaching - Michael Lee, University of New Hampshire

Assessment in New England: Announcing Discipline-Based Workshops

Conference: Faculty-Student Partnerships in Teaching and Learning

Board of Directors

2004-05 Unopa Annual Report

UNOPA: Annual Reports

INSIDE THIS REPORT President’s Report ........................ 1 Elected Officer’s Reports .............. 2 Financial Statement ...................... 3 Standing Committee Reports ....... 4 Ad Hoc Committee Reports ........ 15 State & National Activities .......... 17 UNOPA Duties of Committees .... 18 UNOPA Constitution ................... 19 UNOPA Bylaws ........................... 21 UNOPA Standing Rules .............. 23

Combating Stovepipes: Implementing Workflow In Uportal, Mark Askren, Marina Arseniev

Information Technology Services: Publications

Simplifying business processes and avoiding stovepipes prompted the inclusion of a workflow channel within the uPortal implementation at UC Irvine.

With a new wave of campus IT solutions comes a familiar challenge: How do you encourage and help build distributed applications without being overrun by stovepipe solutions? Anticipating significant enrollment growth (5 percent per year) for the next several years, double- digit annual growth in funded research, and little chance that resources will be available to address increased workload, the University of California Irvine continues to streamline and simplify business processes as part of administrative technology planning at the university.

Unopa Notes 2004

UNOPA: Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Call For Proposals: Culture, Communication, Créativité

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Registration Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Conference Schedule

Keynote Speaker

Plenary Speaker

Conference Workshops and Sessions

New this year

Sites and Excursions

Register Early!

Conference Program: Culture, Communication, Créativité

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

My Conference Session Planner

Welcome, by L. Dee Fink (President)

Core Committee 2004

Conference Overview

POD Presidents and Conference Sites

Acknowledgements

Conference Events for Administrators

POD Honored Presentation Awards in Recognition of Robert J. Menges

Schedule

2005 STLHE Conference

Conference Notes

POD Conference Evaluation

Office Of Research And Graduate Studies -- Annual Report 2003-2004

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Contents
Science and Engineering page
Recombinant Bandage 02
Advanced Computing, Everyday Life 04
Software Engineering 05
Silicon Nanotubes. 06
Nutritional Genomics and Nanomaterials. 08
Genetics of Virulence 09
Rapid PCR Device. 10
Selenium, Cancer and Aging 12
Education
Math in the Middle Institute. 14
Project Fulcrum 16
School Readiness for Parents 17
Behavioral Science
Assessing Threatening Behavior 18
Family Dynamics of Infertility 19
Arts & Humanities
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains 20
Global Politics 22
Sculpture Conservation. 22
Commission with Philip Glass 23
Rising Stars page
Luminescence. 24
Giant Thunderstorms 24
Debugging Software 25
Technology Development
Robotic Traffic Barrels 26 …

Preface, Volume 22 (2004), Catherine M. Wehlberg

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preface to volume 22 (2004) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Catherine M. Wehlberg of Texas Christian University.

Introduction, Volume 22 (2004)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction to volume 22 (2004) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

From Sgid And Gift To Bbq: Streamlining Midterm Student Evaluations To Improve Teaching And Learning, Margaret K. Snooks, Sue E. Neeley, Kathleen M. Williamson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty members want feedback about ways to improve learning. Midterm assessments are more useful than end-of-term student evaluations. Not all institutions provide faculty development consultants. This chapter presents an innovative process appropriate for institutions currently without teaching enhancement centers. The Bare Bones Questions (BBQ) process consists of empathic trained colleagues facilitating students’ evaluative discussions. Students and faculty members are overwhelmingly positive about the process piloted for the past three years. Students’ suggestions can include simple changes in classroom environment or enhanced sensitivity to cultural diversity. BBQ may build intra-institutional collegiality by reducing the isolation of teaching.

A Versatile Interactive Focus Group Protocol For Qualitative Assessments, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A highly flexible focus group protocol captures efficiently and economically useful data for immediate and longitudinal course and program assessment. Special features include an index card activity that deals with satisfactions levels and a Roundtable/Ranking activity that allows participant-generated judgments about the most positive and the most negative features of a course or program. These latter activities, with data displayed in an Excel histogram and in a colored-coded Word table, can be used for what is called a “Quick Course Diagnosis” (QCD).

A Transformative Model For Designing Professional Development Activities, David J. Langley, Terence W. O'Connor, Michele M. Welkener

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A new model for professional and organizational development is presented based on concepts derived from Wilber (2000) and Astin (2001). The model consists of an individual/public dimension and a reflection/performance dimension. Four quadrants that result from connecting these dimensions are formed: 1) individual reflection, 2) public reflection, 3) individual performance, and 4) public performance. We believe this model offers faculty developers a framework for designing thoughtful programs to aid faculty in meeting the wide range of internal and external demands that confront higher education institutions.

Problem–Based Service–Learning: Rewards And Challenges With Undergraduates, Kenneth France

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Students in three Abnormal Psychology sections participated in problem-based service learning (PBSL). Desired learning outcomes included humanizing persons diagnosed with mental health disorders and more fully appreciating challenges experienced by such individuals. Students completing the PBSL projects evidenced decreased negative feelings and increased positive feelings toward consumers of mental health services. According to the community partners, students made valuable contributions to both the organizations and the mental health consumers served by those organizations. Students saw the activity as being challenging and rewarding.

Effective Peer Evaluation In Learning Teams, Debbie Williams, Doug Foster, Bo Green, Paul Lakey, Raye Lakey

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Evaluating student performance in learning teams is challenging. This chapter reviews the student learning team and peer evaluation literature. The authors share the results of their experience using four rubrics for peer evaluation in student learning teams. Student learning teams involve forming students into teams for the semester to enhance their active learning. A portion of the course grade is dedicated to team quizzes, activities, and projects. The authors conclude that peer evaluation data should be used both formatively and summatively to enhance team cohesion and accountability and provide their preferred rubric for the peer evaluation process. Usage of forced …

An International Perspective On Assessing Group Projects, Deborah Willis, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The value of group work for enhancing learning is well documented. However, to maximize the impact of group work on student learning, faculty should carefally consider course design and assessment. This chapter draws on research, policy, and practice from the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to emphasize the importance of adopting an integrated approach to group work through careful planning. Guidelines emphasize ways to provide for the responsive, responsible assessment of group projects.