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To Speak Or Not To Speak: That Is The Question, Joyce Fields

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the best of all academic worlds, the phrase “grading in honors” is an oxymoron. According to many and various sources, the gifted college student is more of a perfectionist with higher educational aspirations than non-honors students. She tends to be more autonomous, self-aware, and willing to engage in discourse than non-honors students. We know that she comes to us with higher academic credentials than non-honors students and that she is, therefore, more poised for success. How, then, do we assess the creative, energetic, enthusiastic, impassioned work we expect from such students? Should we be required to do so?
In …

Using Characteristics Of K–12 Gifted Programs To Evaluate Honors Programs, Mary Tallent-Runnels, Shana Shaw, Julie A. Thomas

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The objective of this study was to conduct an exploratory evaluation of honors programs in institutions of higher education. Nine characteristics of exemplary K–12 gifted programs were used for this analysis of honors programs in the Big 12 schools. One school was eliminated from the process because it was the only one without an honors college. Instead, this school had departmental honors programs, and all programs there were somewhat different. Overall results showed that the eleven honors programs we examined complied with the same criteria recommended for K–12 programs. However, compliance with the characteristics varied. Most notably, only one program …

Honoring Virginia Tech: Letter From Charles (Jack) Dudley, Charles (Jack) Dudley

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Your cards, letters, emails, and phone calls helped sustain us in the most terrible moments of our lives and for that we are forever in your debt. For the period Monday through today (April 16–25th), we have lived through periods of uncertainty, grief, intense emotions, and a profound sense of loss. We lost thirty-three students, our sense of security, and sense of direction. Your concern, as evidenced by more than two hundred communications, provided islands of comfort in a sea of horror. For your thoughtfulness we say a humble thank you.

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 8, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jeffrey A. Portnoy
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

HONORING VIRGINIA TECH
“To Honors People Everywhere” and “All Have Seen the Treasure of the University: Its People” -- Charles (Jack) Dudley, Virginia Tech University

FORUM ON “GRADES, SCORES, AND HONORS”
“Grades, Scores, and Honors: A Numbers Game?” -- Larry Andrews
Evaluation vs. Grading in Honors Composition, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Grades and Love Teaching -- Annmarie Guzy
To Speak or Not to Speak: That is the Question -- Joyce W. Fields
Grades, Scores, and Honors Education -- Ryan Brown …

The Virgin Mary: A Paradoxical Model For Roman Catholic Immigrant Women Of The Nineteenth Century, Darris Catherine Saylors

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This paper identifies and discusses several examples of Marian paradoxes to better understand how constructions of Mary as the primary model of feminine religiosity affected Roman Catholic immigrant women. Such paradoxes include Mary’s perpetual virginity juxtaposed with earthly women’s commitment to family (and the sexual relationship implicit in marriage) and the classist elements inherent in the True Womanhood model related to Mary. The four cardinal virtues of the nineteenth-century American model of True Womanhood—piety, purity, submission, and domesticity—parallel nicely those emphasized in the figure of Mary. For this paper, I shall focus on the virtue of purity particularly as related …

Editorial Matter For Volume 8, 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 Larry R. Andrews
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Experiential Learning And City As Text©: Reflections On Kolb And Kolb, Robert Strikwerda

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The ancient Greek followers of Aristotle were called the Peripatetics, apparently because their teacher taught philosophy as they walked under the peripatos (“covered walk”) of the Lyceum, an area just outside of Athens. As a graduate student I thought this had to be a rather inefficient way of teaching, conjuring as it did an image of students jostling to get close to the teacher, some rushing to keep pace while asking questions or taking notes and others distracted by a bird flying overhead. City as Text© (CAT) has made me rethink the facile assumptions behind that image. Maybe walking around …

Evaluation Vs. Grading In Honors Composition Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Grades And Love Teaching, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As a professor of composition and technical communication, I have had extensive training for and experience with evaluating student writing. The intellectual work of composition as an academic discipline manifests itself in three areas: rhetorically-based composition theory, empirical research of both qualitative and quantitative natures, and—unlike other disciplines aside from education—the applications of that theory and research to build sound teaching practices. In the pedagogical third of our scholarship, compositionists learn not only to design syllabi and assignments that will meet educational goals for students who will need to argue, research, and write at the postsecondary level, but also to …

Important Issues For Growing An Honors Program, Nick Flynn

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

A common challenge in honors is gauging how much our respective programs should grow over a certain time period. Before that challenge can be fully addressed, however, several issues of a more rudimentary sort must be considered—issues concerning budget, scholarships, advising load, and development of community within the honors program. Essentially, directors must be able to financially support expansion (budget and scholarships) while not altering the environment of their programs (advising load and community development).

Residential Housing Population Revitalization: Honors Students, David Taylor

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Construction is not an uncommon sight on college and university campuses today. Such importance is placed on facilities that erection, addition, and modernization costs totaled more than 14.5 billion dollars in the United States during the 2005 calendar year (Agron, 2006). Collegiate administrators have come to realize that prospective students and their guardians focus not only on the academic quality of an institution but also on the vehicle through which that product is conveyed (Hanish & Romano, 2003).

The physical environment of a campus plays an important role in the eventual selection of an institution. Students spend a great deal …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2007, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Judith Kamber, Northern Essex Community College

From the editors -

Encounters With George: Information Literacy and Mathematics at Berkshire Community College - Karen Carreras-Hubbard and Annette Guertin, Berkshire Community College

Achieving Information Literacy Goals Through Collaboration - Pamela Bedore, University of Connecticut, Avery Point

Teaming Up! The Sociology/English Composition I /Librarian Embed Experience at Northern Essex Community College - Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College

Common Learning Outcomes for First-Year Information Literacy - Mary Adams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Gabriela Adler, Bristol Community College; Susan Berteaux, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Marcia Dinneen, Bridgewater State …

Instruction Cost Report, Spring 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Shows the costs associated with running the University of Northern Iowa broken down by college and department

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: April 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from April 3, 13 and 27, 2006.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: April 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from April 2007.

April 29, 2007 is listed as a daily update but that page is blank in all seven instances captured by Archive.org

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Teacher Perceptions Of Bullying Prevention: A Comparative Analysis Of Teacher Perceptions Of Bullying Prevention Programs, Diana Howell

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

School bullying has often been tacitly minimalized as a rite of passage—an unfortunate but common experience among children. In the past few years there has been an increasing awareness of school bullying as a catalyst of school violence. Parents, school boards, and administrators are understanding and taking more seriously the negative impact that bullying has on victimized students and are actively looking for ways to reduce incidents of such violence. This research provides a discussion of bullying behavior and an examination of teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of bullying prevention programs in their schools. If teachers do not feel that …

Special Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents special meeting to approve site for future Gary Ransdell Hall.

March 30, 2007 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate March 30, 2007 Approved Minutes

Father Of Slain Journalist Daniel Pearl Will Speak At Holocaust Remembrance Event, April 17, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, March 29, 2007, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 82, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Deleting Classes First Day For Non-Attendance, Linda Bleicken

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding SGA week, plus/minus grade protest, professor accountability and legislation.

Chapman University Announces Creation Of New College Of Performing Arts, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

E-Newsletter, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

University Senate e-newsletter regarding elections and tuition waivers.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 82, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Senate Meeting, March 28, 2007, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Chapman Commemorates 60th Anniversary Of Mendez V. Westminster Case On April 14, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss, elections, athletics committee, academic statistics, Dr. Harriman's ban from Preston Health & Activities Center, child care, faculty regent election, American Council of Education internationalization laboratory, salaries, budget, salary survey, plus-minus grading and student advisors.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 82, No. 40, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua12/2/1 Transitions, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special job fair edition of the College Heights Herald.