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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

No abstract provided.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: April 2006, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2006

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from April 11 and 22, 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 2006, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2006

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from April 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.

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 …

March 31, 2006 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate March 31, 2006 Approved Minutes

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, March 30, 2006, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 38 [42], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Paul, Corey. Athlete Arrested for Baptist Student Union Burglary – Shane Rayners
• Coulter, Amber. Council on Post-Secondary Education Must OK Tuition Changes
• Stackhouse, A. Layne. Teachers Become Sticky Targets
• Harrell, Bobby. Hill Becomes Stage for Student – Rebeckah Lyons
• Brandenburg, Katie. Student Government Association Primary Vote Canceled
• Paul, Corey. Vandalism Problem Grows
• Rising Crime
• New Bike Path Will be a Great Addition
• Watkins, Robert. There Are Too Many Student Fees
• Brandenburg, Katie. Skipping Class May Soon Earn Students a Failing Grade
• Paul, Corey. Alpha Gamma …

Senate Meeting, March 29, 2006, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for March 28, 2006 meeting.

$6 Million Gift Names Residence Hall, Two Endowed Chairs, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Timely Provision Of Agenda Materials, Clara Krug

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Policy Of Dropping Students Who Do Not Attend The First Class 3/27/2006, Clara Krug

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Mary Cowles, parking, Diddle Arena renovations, election, provide-a-ride, budget and legislation.

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Meeting Summary, March 22, 2006, Uno Strategic Planning Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Meeting Summary, March 22, 2006.

One Of America's "Most Dangerous Academics" To Speak April 4, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Ufa Aac Library Sub-Committee Meeting Minutes, March 2006, Barbara Swartzlander

UFA AAC Library Sub-committee Meeting Minutes

Meeting report from the University Faculty Assembly Academic Affairs Committee's Library Sub-committee meeting at the University of New England.

How Deans (And Presidents) Should Quit, Kent D. Syverud

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Professional Responsibilities Of Law Professors: The Scope Of The Duty Of Confidentiality, Character And Fitness Questionnaires, And Engagement In Governance, Carol A. Needham

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

"Are We At War" Symposium Draws Global Experts, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Celebrity Readers Announced For Read Around The Clock, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

E-Newsletter, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

E-newsletter re: University Academic Complaint Committee.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding student evaluations of faculty, Kentucky Teachers Retirement System (KTRS), elections, student fees, health insurance fund, budget, tenure policies, winter term aka J Term, enrollment, faculty meeting attendance, graduate council, ombudsperson and faculty grievance process.