Recently added articles from Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council:
Postmodern prometheans: academic libraries, information technologies, and the cut-and-paste aesthetic.(Forum on "Honors in the Digital Age")(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Last year, my sister-in-law served a Turducken for Thanksgiving dinner. I suspect that most people have yet to hear of it. It is a partially de-boned turkey, stuffed with a partially de-boned duck that has been stuffed with a partially de-boned chicken. I am sitting behind the ...
Editor's introduction.
Sep 22, 2009; ... Two decades ago, most honors directors and deans were not yet using email, nobody was hooked up to the Internet because it did not exist, and the NCHC conducted all of its business by mail. Those of us with computers used MSDOS and said "F9" as a synonym for "delete"; our desks were buried ...
Honors in the electronic age.(Forum on "Honors in the Digital Age")(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... No blessing comes unmixed, and this is certainly the case with the plethora of opportunities that the new electronic world presents to higher education and to honors programs. For some this electronic revolution threatens to undermine established values and traditional academic practices, ...
Dedication.(Lothar Tresp )(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Georgia, Lothar Tresp has not only studied history but participated in and--within the context of the NCHC--made it. Born in East Prussia in 1927, Dr. Tresp's high school education was interrupted by the war. In 1945, he was wounded in ...
Immigrant song: a cautionary note about technology and honors.(Forum on "Honors in the Digital Age")(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In an influential 2001 essay, Marc Prensky discusses the vast divide that exists between two generations, what he terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants." The former group consists of students who have lived their entire lives with computers, cell phones, video games, "and all the ...