Recently added articles from Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council:
Dedication: Mitch Pruitt.
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The managing editor of a journal or monograph typically remains invisible to all but the journal editors. Since readers and authors rarely get to appreciate the work they do, we are especially pleased to honor the outstanding work of Mitch Pruitt and to ...
Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; Long, Ada ... EDITORIAL PRELUDE The Forum that opens this issue of JNCHC is devoted to the topic "Social Class and Honors" and appears in the midst of economic and social turmoil unlike any since honors education started gaining momentum in the 1960s. As a prelude to the Forum, the time seems ...
Honors is elitist, and what's wrong with that?(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Weiner, Norm ... A few years ago, an honors colleague from a state university was attending a conference in his discipline and at lunch one day sat next to a professor from Yale. They began chatting, and the Yale professor asked, "What do you teach students in an honors program?" The honors director ...
A blue-collar honors story.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Guzy, Annmarie ... <Pre> Well, I guess I was wrong I just don't belong But then, I've been there before Everything's all right I'll just say goodnight And I'll show myself to the door Hey, I didn't mean To cause a big scene Just give me an hour and then Well, I'll be ...
Class, honors, and Eastern Kentucky: why we still need to try to change the world.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Frost, Linda ... Norm Wiener's piece "Honors Is Elitist, and What's Wrong with That?" couldn't have come at more opportune moment for me. Having recently accepted the directorship of a well-respected program founded by the legendary Dr. Bonnie Gray and seated in one of the poorest regions of the ...
The two-year college honors program and the forbidden topics of class and cultural capital.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Pressler, Charlotte ... From my position as honors director at a two-year college in rural Florida, in the citrus and cow-hunter country south of I-4 and north of Okeechobee, Norm Weiner's positing of honors education as a way to give students a chance to climb the class ladder seems persuasive. Honors education ...
On class and class.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Digby, Joan ... We have a long history in America of pretending that there is no class structure. If you ask students to identify their family by class, they all say "middle-class." I, however, teach on the "Gold Coast" of Long Island where the Fricks, Vanderbilts, and Morgans owned big properties and ...
To the charge of "Honors is Elitist," on Advice of Counsel We Plead "Guilty as Charged".(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Spurrier, Robert ... Norm Weiner's introductory essay for this issue of the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council challenges us to face the charge of elitism that so frequently is lodged against honors programs and honors colleges (as well as against those of us who are involved in honors education ...
Elitism misunderstood: in defense of equal opportunity.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Rinn, Anne N. ... At one time or another, we have all dealt with colleagues who expressed doubts about dedicating resources to honors students. They argue that gifted and high-achieving students do not need or deserve additional resources to pursue their educational goals; they will do just fine on their ...
Dealing with subjective and objective issues in honors education.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Giazzoni, Michael ... Professionals working in higher education who are concerned with social justice need to consider questions of objectivity and subjectivity. Even though some assessments are objective and some subjective, neither kind of assessment is guaranteed to separate out the effects of socioeconomic ...
Does broad-based merit aid affect socioeconomic diversity in honors?(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Defrank-Cole, Lisa ... The honors college at West Virginia University (WVU) has seen an influx of high-achieving West Virginia students since 2001, when the PROMISE Scholarship was implemented. The PROMISE Scholarship is a merit-based financial aid award for West Virginia residents. If a student qualifies by ...
Honors needs diversity more than the diverse need honors.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Ashton, William A. ... Awareness of and sensitivity to social class, economic class, ethnicity and gender have been important goals of the academy and of honors for the past few decades. During this time the academy, which has always been the domain primarily of the middle and upper class, has reached out to ...
Honors and class.(Forum on "Social Class and Honors")(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Braid, Bernice ... Since the l980s a steady stream of scholarly works has examined stratification along class lines in American education. A recent work on this subject is Tearing Down the Gates, by Peter Sacks, which won the Frederic W. Ness Book Award in January 2009. It draws a detailed portrait of ...
Predicting retention in honors programs.(Research Essay)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; McKay, Kyle ... INTRODUCTION A number of challenges exist in providing the honors experience. Programs must compete for resources, coordinate departments, design dynamic curricula, and work toward changing goals. Among the many challenges, one of the hardest begins before students even enter ...
