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Towards Reliable Honors Assessment, Gregory Lanier

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the recent JNCHC volume devoted to “Outcomes Assessment, Accountability, and Honors” (Spring/Summer 2006), we can find a marked division within the honors community between those for and against the current climate of program assessment, with the “againsts” carrying the day by a two to one margin (six negative essays vs. three positive). In her editorial comments, Ada Long declares:

Honors educators do indeed need to be in the forefront of the national conversation about outcomes assessment, but first we will each need to decide whether we should join or resist the movement. (p. 15)

I wonder if honors educators …

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

The Culture Of Honors, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

Defining Honors Culture, Charlie Slavin

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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, …

The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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).

The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program, Paul Strong

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

“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 …

The New Model Education, Gary Bell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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.

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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. …

Creating An Honors Culture, Jim Ford

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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 …

Connected To The Community, Linda Mannering

Strategic Planning Forums

This presentation discusses community engagement at UNO.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: April 2008, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2008

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from April 2008. 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 Biweekly Update: April 2008, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2008

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from April 11 and 25, 2008.

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.

Chapman Law School Moves Up In Rankings, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Avraham Burg, Former Speaker Of Israel's Knesset, To Speak April 3, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Bolinao 52 Documentary To Examine Plight Of Vietnam's Boat People, April 4, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Dancers Present Concert Intime April 3-5, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

March 28, 2008 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate March 28, 2008 Approved Minutes

Outdoor Screening Of Electric Car Documentary Is April 2, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Brown, Holly. Red Towel Party Seeks to Energize Student Government Association
• Brown, Holly & Neil Siders. Student Government Association 2008
• Siders, Neil. Skylar Johnson Picks Rely on Experience – Student Government Association
• Zudic, Rialda. Students at ONE Campaign Amass to End Poverty
• Strupp, Alton. A Thousand Words – Kris Murniadi, International Students
• Day, Michelle. State Legislature Attempts to Reach Budget Accord
• Rowell, Larry. Sexual Assault E-mail Claim Unverified – WKU Police
• Rowell, Larry. Western Student Found Dead
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Student Government Association Clowns
• Student Government …

2008 March 26 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Senate Meeting, March 26, 2008, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss plus/minus grading, SGA week, hall of distinguished seniors, campus clean up and resolutions.

Panel To Examine Radio's Past And Future On April 3, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for March 25, 2008 meeting.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 41, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Robinson, Andrew. Ty-ed to History: Senior’s Shot Advances Tops – Ty Rogers, Basketball
• Brown, Holly. Governor Steve Beshear Bets on Toppers, Brings Home Bacon
• Zukic, Rialda. The ONE Campaign Hosts Poverty Awareness Rally
• Clayton, Ami. Forensics Team World Champions
• Day, Michelle. Senate’s Budget Doesn’t Mesh with House Version – Legislature
• Erskine, Anne. Veteran Students – Iraq War, 2003
• Support is Non-Partisan: After Five Years of War Don’t Forget Sacrifices Made – Iraq War, 2003, Veterans, Students
• Hayes, Nathan. Empty Holsters Full of Meaning – Protests, Demonstrations, Guns
• Abston, …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding tuition, parking fees, budget cuts, retiree benefits, salaries, 120 hour graduation, diversity and staff teaching.