Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council back issues from September 2005:
Dedication: Jocelyn E. Whitehead Jackson.
Sep 22, 2005 ... Dr. Jocelyn Jackson has been active in honors education and in the National Collegiate Honors Council for close to three decades. She was Vice President, President, and Past President of NCHC from 1985 to 1988, and she currently is an elected member of the NCHC Executive Committee. Her ...
Editor's introduction.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Probably most people reading this issue of JNCHC have to answer the question "What is Honors?" several times a week. Sometimes the answers come trippingly off the tongue with enthusiasm and clarity; sometimes they inspire new understanding of what a particular honors program or college is ...
What is honors?(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... For several years I have edited a small, in-house journal for the School of Education's Technology Advisory Committee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a journal which is distributed to the faculty and posted on the School of Education's website. Until last issue. The last ...
"What is an honors student?".(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... It is first necessary to recognize the distinction between the questions "What is an honors student?" or better "What are the characteristics of an honors student?" and "How do you recognize a student with those characteristics?" The first of these two questions is easier to approach since ...
Teaching honors.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... Jay Freyman's discussion of "What is an Honors Student?" sent me off on the somewhat quirky tangent of asking, "So What is an Honors Teacher?" Even quirkier, my musings led me to the conclusion that the best answer was provided by John Lennon and the Beatles: "all you need is love." ...
Honors as an adjective: response to Jay Freyman.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... As an ex-honors program/college CEO, the question raised by this Forum--"What is an Honors (fill in the blank)?"--got me reminiscing about the old days. In some sense the best answers are the obviously circular answers. An honors student is a student participating in an honors program. An ...
What honors can do.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... Since becoming honors director at a small regional institution in March, I have had more than a few opportunities to reflect on what honors might be and what it is not, or should not, be. When Dail W. Mullins, Jr. writes of "balancing tensions" between meritocratic and egalitarian ...
Is, ought, and honors.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... Somewhat uncomfortably, I confess that the question "What is Honors?" rings a bit too Platonic to these ears. I hardly feel qualified to describe "Honors" in terms of its timeless, disembodied, ideal Form, although I suppose the shadows on the wall of my own humble cave are recognizable ...
A way of life.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... The question "What is Honors?" could not have been posed at a better time for me: earlier this summer, I took up a new responsibility of directing the Western Oregon University (WOU) Honors Program while only in my fourth year at the university. Work has commenced at WOU to prepare for the ...
In praise of silence.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... "Listen ... with the ear of your heart." --The Rule of St. Benedict I thought I was ready for her, a sophomore in my honors rhetoric class. I have been teaching the honors rhetoric class for almost twenty years. Yet every semester I revise my syllabus for the class as ...
A student like me.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... Jay Freyman suggests that we often define "honors" (and, I suspect, many other things) based on our own experiences and observations as undergraduates. He then provides us with a valuable means of uncovering those diamonds in the rough and shading our eyes from those sparkling cubic ...
Honors: when value-added is really added value.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
Sep 22, 2005; ... Sometimes I look at the responsibilities and demands placed on me in my current position and cannot believe I haven't cracked up yet. In this era of accountability and "show me the data," institutional assessment directors like me are constantly bombarded with challenges that require ...
Redemptive memory: the christianization of the Holocaust in America.(Portz-Prize-Winning Essay, 2005)
Sep 22, 2005; ... There has been a considerable debate among historians concerning the role of the Holocaust in the American collective memory. Since the watershed year 1993, when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors on the Mall in Washington, DC, and the film Schindler's List ...
What honors students want (and expect): the views of top Michigan high school and college students.(Research Essays)
Sep 22, 2005; ... ABSTRACT Often missing in an overall assessment of honors is a broad, comparative analysis of what top academic students want and expect from college and more particularly from an honors experience. Limited case studies or theoretical research articles analyzing how honors ...
Comparison of the academic achievement of first-year female honors program and non-honors program engineering students.(Research Essays)
Sep 22, 2005; ... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of first-year female engineering students based on participation, or lack thereof, in the honors program. A single research question was developed for this study: "Is there a significant difference in ...
Characteristics of the contemporary honors college * a descriptive analysis of a survey of NCHC member colleges.(Research Essays)(National Collegiate Honors Council)
Sep 22, 2005; ... INTRODUCTION Every year the number of honors colleges across the country increases. Most of these new colleges emerge out of pre-existing honors programs, an origin that suggests that the change reflects an interest in raising the public profile of honors education at a ...
How to Write a BA Thesis: a Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... How to Write a BA Thesis: A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) By Charles Lipson. The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 402 pp. A hallmark of honors education is high-quality undergraduate research ....