Recently added articles from Honors in Practice:
Earl and Maggie Brown.(DEDICATION)(National Collegiate Honors Council )(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For over a decade, Earl and Maggie Brown were dynamic forces in the NCHC. From 1993 through 1997, Earl was Editor and Maggie Assistant Editor of the National Honors Report, the quarterly magazine that combined the roles of two current NCHC publications: ...
Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; Long, Ada ... The 2009 volume of Honors in Practice begins with three important speeches of 2008. The first is a slightly revised version of the presidential address that Hallie E. Savage delivered at the 2008 NCHC conference in San Antonio and that elicited a long standing ovation. The speech, titled ...
Stability in the context of change.(Important Speeches of 2008)(National Collegiate Honors Council's president, Hallie E. Savage's speech)
Jan 01, 2009 ... (What follows is a slightly revised version of the presidential address that Hallie E. Savage delivered on Saturday, October 25, 2008, at the annual NCHC conference in San Antonio, Texas.) Last year at this time, I began to think about what I might adopt as a presidential theme ....
Ending in honors.(Important Speeches of 2008)(Samuel Schuman's presentation at 2008 National Collegiate Honors Council conference )
Jan 01, 2009 ... (What follows is a slightly revised version of a presentation given by Sam Schuman at the 2008 NCHC conference in San Antonio, Texas.) I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace. --Caliban, The Tempest Part One Sometime in the year after the ...
People who think otherwise.(Important Speeches of 2008)
Jan 01, 2009 ... (The following address was delivered October 3, 2008, at Middle Tennessee State University during the inauguration of the Buchanan Fellows Class of 2012. The Buchanan Fellowship program, administered by the University Honors College at MTSU, is limited to twenty students per year and is ...
Implementing honors faculty status: an adventure in academic politics.(Administrative Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Peters, Jesse ... I joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina Pembroke in 1999. At that time there were about 3200 students, and we were mostly a commuter campus. Currently we have just over 6000 students, and the campus has shifted to a much more residential student body. The physical plant ...
Building an honors development board.(Administrative Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Carnicom, Scott ... "Like other colleges within the university, a fully developed honors college should be involved in alumni affairs and development and should have an external advisory board." --from the Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors College (Sederberg, 2008) ...
Honors ex machina: changing perceptions of honors through horizontal integration, a case study.(Administrative Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Hulsey, Timothy L. ... Honors programs and colleges face numerous pressures from raising money to managing growth to developing and maintaining curricula. None of these challenges, however, are unique to honors. What has, unfortunately, proven to be unique to honors has been the continuing question of relevance ....
Separate but equal: will it work for professional honors programs?(Administrative Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Jones, Beata M. ... Developing honors opportunities for students in professional schools can be difficult, as noted by, for example, Giazzoni (2007), Bishop and Sittason (2007) and Noble and Dowling (2007) and also as demonstrated by honors program statistics at Texas Christian University (TCU). Despite the ...
Combining chemistry and college writing: a new model for an honors undergraduate chemistry course.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Chamely-Wiik, Donna ... Faculty in the Departments of Chemistry and English at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have designed and implemented an innovative, writingintensive, advanced, second-semester chemistry course combined with a laboratory component that satisfies both second semester General Chemistry and ...
Bridging the divides: using a collaborative honors research experience to link academic learning to civic issues.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Fink, Alix D. Dowling ... Science, mathematics, and technology are defined as much by what they do and how they do it as they are by the results they achieve. To understand them as ways of thinking and doing, as well as bodies of knowledge, requires that students have some experience with the kinds of thought and ...
Enhancing environmental literacy and global learning among honors students.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Davis, Liza ... In 2005, the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF) released a summary of a decade's worth of research into environmental literacy among Americans, collected in collaboration with Roper Reports. The report included some disturbing statistics: 45 million Americans ...
Writing war: the memorial design project.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Utell, Janine ... It seems a fortuitous--and frightening--time to be teaching a course on literature and art of war in the twentieth century. As an assistant professor in a small English department within Widener University's humanities division, which serves a range of students through our general ...
Paths to knowledge as a foundational course in an honors program.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Vitha, Mark F. ... INTRODUCTION In this article we describe an honors course titled "Paths to Knowledge," which was created to provide students with an understanding of the ways different disciplines create and evaluate knowledge. This is the only specific course within our honors curriculum that ...
An honors director's credo.(Curricular Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Salas, Angela M. ... "Finis Origine Pendet" wrote Manlius: the end depends upon the beginning. True enough. But what if we looked at a desired end to work backward and see what steps we might take to get to that place? What do we want for our children, for our students, and for the graduates of our schools? ...
Networking an honors community out of fragmentation.(Programmatic Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Koh, Karlyn ... CONTEXT What makes an honors program a community? And how does one build a vibrant honors community at a commuter community college? In the City University of New York's LaGuardia Community College Honors Program, we have been grappling with such questions especially because ...
Honors ambassadors: a framework for enhancing student and program development.(Programmatic Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Burton, Kristy ... Many honors programs struggle with how to attract the best and brightest students, primarily because the students we seek often have multiple lucrative offers from highly rated institutions. At Miami University, we found ourselves in the unfortunate position of losing top-tier students to ...
The role of peer leaders in an honors freshman experience course.(Programmatic Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Johnson, Melissa L. ... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to describe the role peer leaders play in Introduction to Honors Professional Development, a 1-credit, graded, honors course for first-year students at the University of Florida. Peer leaders are experienced undergraduate students who ...
Honors living-learning communities: a model of success and collaboration.(Programmatic Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Daffron, Eric ... INTRODUCTION All too often on college campuses, academic affairs and student affairs work in near isolation from each other. In their traditional roles, academic affairs promotes students' learning in the classroom while student affairs cares for students' personal development ...
Honoring experiential education.(Programmatic Designs)
Jan 01, 2009; Holman, Debra K. ... INTRODUCTION In the Center for Honors, Scholars and Leadership at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), we are actively pursuing expansion of our experiential-education offerings and are working collaboratively with a variety of community partners and key campus offices to ...
