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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 9, No. 1 -- Complete Issue Apr 2008

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 9, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to John Grady
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “HONORS CULTURE”
Defining Honors Culture -- Charlie Slavin
The Culture of Honors -- George Mariz
Creating an Honors Culture -- Jim Ford
Honors Culture Clash: The High Achieving Student Meets the Gifted Professor -- Annmarie Guzy
The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program -- Paul Strong
The Times They Are A-Changin’ -- Dail Mullins

RESEARCH ESSAYS
The New Model Education -- Gary Bell.
The Role of Advanced Placement Credit in Honors Education -- Maureen E. Kelleher, Lauren C. Pouchak, and Melissa A. Lulay
Towards …

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Editorial Matter For Volume 9, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Apr 2008

Editorial Matter For Volume 9, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

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

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The Role Of Advanced Placement Credit In Honors Education, Maureen Kelleher, Lauren Pouchak, Melissa Lulay Apr 2008

The Role Of Advanced Placement Credit In Honors Education, Maureen Kelleher, Lauren Pouchak, Melissa Lulay

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The role that Advanced Placement (AP) credit plays in an honors education is increasingly significant. More high school students have the opportunity to take AP courses and successfully complete the AP exams. As a result, they arrive on campus with credits toward some and often many of their early core-focused college requirements. This widespread bypass of early requirements often leaves honors programs scampering to find strategies for a robust experience in the early years of an honors education.

This essay emerges from our experience at Northeastern University, where the number of AP credits applied to our undergraduate degrees has increased …

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The Culture Of Honors, George Mariz Apr 2008

The Culture Of Honors, George Mariz

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What is it that we talk or write about when we talk or write about the culture of honors? Almost always we begin with the second term in the phrase, i.e., honors, the enterprise embodied in programs and colleges in which virtually all of the readers of this journal are engaged. If we think at all about the first term, culture, it is almost certainly for no more than a few minutes, if at all, and then move forward to the really important work. As I write this piece, I am at the moment creating a syllabus for a class …

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Defining Honors Culture, Charlie Slavin Apr 2008

Defining Honors Culture, Charlie Slavin

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Most of us in honors have a general sense of what the phrase “honors culture” might mean but would be hard-pressed to define it. Those who have been involved in honors education for any length of time realize that this thing we call “honors” varies widely across institutions. We also know that the components of honors culture at even a single institution include multiple and transient populations of administrators, staff, faculty, and students. Many of the recent writings on college culture by columnists like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman focus solely on undergraduate students, but a culture, if there is …

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Honors Culture Clash: The High Achieving Student Meets The Gifted Professor, Annmarie Guzy Apr 2008

Honors Culture Clash: The High Achieving Student Meets The Gifted Professor, Annmarie Guzy

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In “Defining Honors Culture,” Charlie Slavin’s statement that “[w]e surely all know students who are motivated, either by internal or external factors, but are not at all interested in taking risks or in stepping outside their comfort zone academically, socially, or culturally” reminded me of an annual discussion that I have at the national conference with Anne Rinn, an educational psychologist whose body of work includes research on how a postsecondary honors program may be a good fit for the high achieving student but perhaps not as good for the gifted student. During our 2004 panel on giftedness and honors, …

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The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dail Mullins Apr 2008

The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dail Mullins

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Shortly before his death in 2002, the British author and dramatist Douglas Adams—author of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—composed his “Three Rules” for describing how people react to change (The Salmon of Doubt, p. 95): “(1) anything that is in the world when you are born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works; (2) anything that is invented between the ages of 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career out of it; (3) anything invented after age 35 is …

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Honors, Honor Codes, And Academic Integrity: Where Do They Converge And Diverge?, D. Bruce Carter Apr 2008

Honors, Honor Codes, And Academic Integrity: Where Do They Converge And Diverge?, D. Bruce Carter

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Academic integrity has become a topic of increasing concern to faculty and administrators in colleges and universities across the country (Davis, Seeman, Chapman, & Rotstein, 2008; McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2002). Indeed, the level of concern has led to the development of highly articulated academic integrity procedures at a number of institutions of higher learning. In some instances, schools have felt the need to develop honor pledges and oaths, such as the honor oath recited voluntarily by graduate students entering the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto (Davis et al., 2008).

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The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program, Paul Strong Apr 2008

The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program, Paul Strong

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“Ah, hear that old piano, from down the avenue.” Every Saturday at 6:00pm, at home in Alfred or on the coast of Maine or in Chapel Hill, I can count on hearing those words, “coming to you live from the Fitzgerald Theatre.” It’s time to settle in for another edition of A Prairie Home Companion. The show’s familiarity is comforting. I know just what to expect: The Adventures of Guy Noir (Private Eye), Dusty and Lefty, The Guys’ All- Star Shoe Band, faux ads for Powdermilk Biscuits and The Duct Tape Council, lots of music and singing, and, finally, The …

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The New Model Education, Gary Bell Apr 2008

The New Model Education, Gary Bell

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He came into the room, an immaculately groomed man, confident and clearly experienced in talking to groups. He was, after all, the foremost authority on Renaissance Florence, one of the reasons that history graduate students came to UCLA. His speech was assured—and a bit like a dash of ice water to the respectful, attentive undergraduates gathered before him.
There was no name, no introduction to the class at this point, no attempt at interchange with the audience. However, to give him his due, the attendance was unusually large.

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Plato Among The Plagiarists: The Plagiarist As Perpetrator And Victim, Richard England Apr 2008

Plato Among The Plagiarists: The Plagiarist As Perpetrator And Victim, Richard England

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When the Roman poet Martial applied the Latin term for the kidnapping of slaves and children (“plagiario”) to those who stole his literary work (Epigrams I, 52), he became the first victim of plagiarism in its modern sense. Words are the author’s children, and one can understand how the author might suffer when another claims (or kidnaps) them. But plagiarism has further victims: the reader is tricked into thinking the plagiarist clever; the words themselves are cheapened by unauthorized replication; the scholarly enterprise, the community of authorship, and the process of writing all bear the marks of injury. …

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Creating An Honors Culture, Jim Ford Apr 2008

Creating An Honors Culture, Jim Ford

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Charlie Slavin’s excellent essay on “Defining Honors Culture” raises a host of compelling questions. As the director of an honors program just taking its first steps, I found myself returning again and again to the limits of my own role in shaping a nascent honors culture. Can honors administrators create an “honors culture”? Probably not, even in the case of a newly created honors program. The larger institutional culture and the particular characteristics of the first honors students make the creation ex nihilo of an honors culture difficult, if not impossible. But the stated goals of a particular honors program …

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Balancing Low Growth With High Success, Robert Hogner Oct 2007

Balancing Low Growth With High Success, Robert Hogner

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The International Business Honors BBA Program at Florida International University is a four-year experiment in a degree program that partners a traditional College of Business Administration and an independent Honors College. To date, despite low enrollment and accompanying pressures to increase it, the program continues to provide a unique, challenging, and beneficial student leaning experience of great value to the CBA, the Honors College, and the university.
A combination of student and faculty entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic vision supporting the concept, and trust across institutional boundaries provided the nurturing environment for this program’s success. Where it has not succeeded, specifically …

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss In A Renascent Honors Program, Mike Davis Oct 2007

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss In A Renascent Honors Program, Mike Davis

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Iwork at Cameron University, a regional institution in Oklahoma that will be celebrating its centennial in 2008. Our administrators see the revivification of the Cameron University Honors Program as an important component of their “Centennial Plan,” and they have appointed me to make that revivification happen.

I benefited greatly from reviewing Dean Sederberg’s observations concerning the South Carolina Honors College. Initially, I suspected that his insights would be primarily useful for those in charge of far more developed programs than the one I have been tasked with directing, but from the moment I encountered his warning against “‘biggering’ for the …

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The (Un)Familiar Library: Managing The Transition For A Growing Number Of Honors College Students, Jean Mclaughlin Oct 2007

The (Un)Familiar Library: Managing The Transition For A Growing Number Of Honors College Students, Jean Mclaughlin

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One consequence of the substantial growth in honors programs and colleges that perhaps gets too little attention is the challenge of teaching library research skills to large numbers of students in a way that captures their interest and prepares them to do serious undergraduate work in a variety of fields. Yet these skills are the foundation for college success. This paper attempts to give some perspective on the exciting challenges of extending expertise in library research skills to a growing number of honors scholars.

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Honors Growth And Honors Advising, Robert Spurrier Oct 2007

Honors Growth And Honors Advising, Robert Spurrier

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This article addresses the issue of providing quality honors advising when honors enrollment at Oklahoma State University has increased by 325% since 1988. Following a brief review of NCHC publications that address honors advising and an explanation of the institutional setting addressed by this article, a description of our approach to honors advising will be presented. Qualifications for honors advisors will then be outlined, followed by results of the honors advising evaluation process.

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Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, And Higher Education Administration, Ira Cohen Oct 2007

Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, And Higher Education Administration, Ira Cohen

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While Peter Sederberg starts his description of managing growth with a quotation from Kenneth Boulding, I prefer to start with lines from Robert Burns’ “To a Louse”: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us!”

I think it is fair to say that, at the time Peter took over the program at the University of South Carolina, the national honors movement had, for the first time, reached some consensus about what honors and the National Collegiate Honors Council were vis-à-vis higher education. This was accomplished with the crafting of the “Basic Characteristics …

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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 8, No. 2 -- Complete Issue Oct 2007

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 8, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Larry R. Andrews
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “MANAGING GROWTH IN HONORS”
Nothing Fails Like Success: Managing Growth in a Highly Developed Honors Program -- Peter C. Sederberg
Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, and Higher Education Administration -- Ira Cohen
Important Issues for Growing an Honors Program -- Nick Flynn
Growth = Bucks(?)-- Gregory W. Lanier
The (Un)familiar Library: Managing the Transition for a Growing Number of Honors College Students -- Jean E. McLaughlin
Balancing Low Growth with High Success -- Robert H. Hogner
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss in …

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Growth = Bucks(?), Gregory Lanier Oct 2007

Growth = Bucks(?), Gregory Lanier

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Many of us in honors education will readily agree that, if the equation above is ever true at all, it is a very sharp double-edged sword. I suspect that most of us who direct honors programs or colleges at public institutions have been sliced or diced more than once by an institution’s growth imperatives. Although upper-level administrators often point to their honors programs with pride and tout the accomplishments of their honors students to alumni and benefactors, only a few honors programs and colleges actually report a funding baseline that adequately addresses all the needs of the program and its …

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Transformational Experience Through Liberation Pedagogy: A Critical Look At Honors Education, John Mihelich, Debbie Storrs, Patrick Pellett Oct 2007

Transformational Experience Through Liberation Pedagogy: A Critical Look At Honors Education, John Mihelich, Debbie Storrs, Patrick Pellett

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In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the students’ ethnographic study. Liberation pedagogy framed the critical questions addressed in the ethnographic study exploring how students in honors programs make sense of their academic selves and their honors program. We emphasize student-researcher findings concerning status and elitism among honors participants …

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Nothing Fails Like Success: Managing Growth In A Highly Developed Honors Program, Peter Sederberg Oct 2007

Nothing Fails Like Success: Managing Growth In A Highly Developed Honors Program, Peter Sederberg

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“Nothing fails like success,” economist Kenneth Boulding observed decades ago. He went on to explain that we only learn from failure; if a particular pattern of behavior or policy seems to be working we continue it until, of course, it fails. Then we might learn something. The law of diminishing marginal utility echoes Boulding’s aphorism. What starts out as a source of pleasure yields diminishing utility until it reaches zero or even sinks to a negative return. I recall that my introductory economics instructor used the example of how the pleasure yielded by the first in a series of cold …

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Getting More For Less: When Downsizing In Honors Yields Growth, Janet Myers, Mary Jo Festle Oct 2007

Getting More For Less: When Downsizing In Honors Yields Growth, Janet Myers, Mary Jo Festle

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The outcomes described in these two student voices represent the best of what we hope for in an undergraduate education in an honors program: the pleasure in discovering one’s academic passions; the self-assurance that comes with identifying personal strengths and developing a sense of purpose; and the curiosity and confidence to seek out future opportunities to extend one’s learning whether in graduate school or elsewhere.

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What Is An Honors Student? A Noel-Levitz Survey, Donald Kaczvinsky Oct 2007

What Is An Honors Student? A Noel-Levitz Survey, Donald Kaczvinsky

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In an impressive article published in the 2005 summer issue of JNCHC, Cheryl Achterberg laments the lack of empirical data available to provide a workable definition for honors students. While she duly notes that there is an “ideology” that honors students are “superior” to other students in an institution or of “high ability” or “the best and brightest,” she laments that “[t]here are few characteristics of honors students that can be standardized, measured, or uniformly compared across institutions” (Achterberg 75). She concludes her article with these considerations: honors students are “not a homogeneous group with a set of absolute or …

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The Irrelevance Of Sat In Honors?, Sriram Khe Oct 2007

The Irrelevance Of Sat In Honors?, Sriram Khe

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The Honors Program at Western Oregon University is like most other programs when it comes to admission: we have established minimum requirements for SAT/ACT scores and high school GPAs. Over the last couple of years that I have been directing the program, I have consistently and incrementally raised these requirements. At the same time, I have been increasingly intrigued by one question: do these minimum requirements really matter? If high school GPAs and SAT scores are used as measures of students when they enter the university and the Honors Program, then how do these students measure up to comparable metrics …

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Grades, Marks, And Scores, Oh My!, Rosalie Otero Apr 2007

Grades, Marks, And Scores, Oh My!, Rosalie Otero

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My granddaughter, Ema, a kindergartner, came to my house the other day to show me her homework. She proudly pointed to a colorful butterfly sticker that she had received. Naturally, I oohed and aahed at the paper with the requisite big hug. We also found an empty spot on my refrigerator to display her work.
From the very beginning students are constantly assessed and graded according to their performance and the particular standard of the teacher. Some schools use letter grades, others use numbers, and still others use E for excellent, S for satisfactory, and so on.
I read Larry …

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Balancing On The Edge Of Honors: A Meditation, Jeffrey Portnoy Apr 2007

Balancing On The Edge Of Honors: A Meditation, Jeffrey Portnoy

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In thinking about Larry Andrews’ two recent offerings in JNCHC, his Forum piece featured in this issue and his “At Play on the Fields of Honor(s)” in the last issue, I am struck by a central motif connecting these essays. That motif is not particularly surprising as I reflect on my years of knowing Larry and working with him on the Publications Board. He is smart, witty, hardworking, and humane. His sense of language is sharp and graceful. That he runs the first-rate Honors College at Kent State University is well known throughout the honors universe. In many respects …

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Grades, Scores, And Honors: A Numbers Game?, Larry Andrews Apr 2007

Grades, Scores, And Honors: A Numbers Game?, Larry Andrews

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In a national education system that seems bound by numbers more than ever before—witness proficiency testing in K–12 and the absolute reign of GPAs and standardized tests on the college level—we may still find creative ways to mitigate their deleterious effects on our honors students and programs. In this essay I have tried to explore the issues swirling around our decisions on how we use numbers. Now I would distill my personal views in the following list of principles:

• Unless you can emancipate your program, or part of it, from grades, scores, and credit hours, use the numbers, but …

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Editorial Matter For Volume 8, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Apr 2007

Editorial Matter For Volume 8, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

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Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jeffrey A. Portnoy
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

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Grades, Scores, And Honors Education, Ryan Brown Apr 2007

Grades, Scores, And Honors Education, Ryan Brown

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Awhile ago, I had a conversation with a fellow who was, shall we say, “quantitatively disinclined.” He complained vehemently about the use of numbers and grades as a sorting mechanism in higher education, and, given my affiliation with honors, he decided to focus his attacks in that direction. “It’s all about SATs, ACTs, and GPAs,” he claimed, “but education is so much more than that!” After quickly agreeing with him, I asked him to describe honors without referencing any grade or scoring system at all. Within minutes, he had a beautiful description of honors as a learning environment where a …

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Searching For Tatiyana, Sriram Khe Apr 2007

Searching For Tatiyana, Sriram Khe

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Afemale student rushed into my office with a backpack swinging from her shoulder as I was enjoying freshly brewed coffee and a brownie from the batch I had made for my class. No introductions, but an abrupt “Dr. Khé, you don’t know me, but I heard that you have applied for the Director position, and I totally support your application.”
This was how my interaction with honors students started a couple of years ago after I had barely submitted my application for the Director position. I had no idea what to say other than “thanks, but who are you?” She …

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