Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council back issues from September 2006:
Dedication.
Sep 22, 2006 ... IRA COHEN The thousands of people who have met Ira Cohen during his decades of service to the National Collegiate Honors Council have all learned within five minutes of first acquaintance that he is an historian. Ira brings the temperament and expertise of his profession to ...
Editor's introduction.
Sep 22, 2006; ... The accelerating shift from honors programs to honors colleges and from honors directors to honors deans during the past two decades suggests a major shift in the nature of honors administration. In preparation for the NCHC monograph A Handbook for Honors Administrators that I wrote in ...
Honors program leadership: the right stuff.(Forum on "Honors Administration")(Reprint)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Reprinted from Forum for Honors XVI.3 (spring 1986), 3-9 In what follows, I shall discuss six leadership roles that I think generally need to be fulfilled in an honors program. Since the leadership of most honors programs is the responsibility of a single person, the director, ...
Chaucer, mountain hiking, and honors program leadership.(Forum on "Honors Administration")(Geoffrey Chaucer)
Sep 22, 2006; ... The narrator of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde laments that he is no lover himself but only the "servant of love's servants." I'm in an analogous position in respect to honors program administration: for the past quarter-century, I've been in administrative positions as chief academic ...
Riding a unicycle across a bridge while juggling: the musings of an honors administrator.(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... My favorite metaphor for the life of an honors administrator remains that of a plate spinner. Those of us of a certain age remember them from the Ed Sullivan Show: frantically running from pole to pole, these acrobats had to keep the plates spinning so that none would fall crashing to the ...
At play on the fields of honor(s).(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... Who could argue with Skip Godow's list of roles and qualities desirable in an ideal honors leader? With appropriate caveats concerning the wide variation in programs and institutional contexts, he envisions well the comprehensive demands of modern-day honors administration, demands that ...
Success as an honors program director: what does it take?(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... What does it mean to succeed as an honors director? For the purposes of this discussion, I define the successful honors director as someone who builds an honors program, with "build" having a variety of meanings. In this context, "build" can mean starting a program from the get-go, ...
Being there for honors leadership.(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... In his 1986 article, "Honors Program Leadership: The Right Stuff," Rew Godow, Jr., makes a compelling argument for honors program director as Renaissance man or homo universalis, someone who is able to do many things well, undaunted by the fact that his job, like the job of astronauts ...
"Ah well! I am their leader; I really ought to follow them": leading student leaders.(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... INTRODUCTION One of the privileges of being the dean of an honors college or the director of an honors program is that you are allowed to work with some of the brightest, most motivated, and most innovative students in your institution. One of our responsibilities when working ...
Leadership in honors: what is the right stuff?(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... It may come as disappointing news, but as far as honors administrators go the "right stuff" in many ways resembles sound medical practice: there are seldom cases of heroic intervention; good protocols and practices are better formulas for success than sheer talent or the bold stroke; and ...
A view from the shoulders.(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... "If I have seen farther than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton So, you have been asked to administer the honors program at your institution. You have no idea what it means since, for the past fifteen years, you have been ...
Reminiscences on the evolution of honors leadership.(Forum on "Honors Administration")
Sep 22, 2006; ... Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a hot and sultry Friday night in August. Pardon the redundancy--if it is Las Vegas in August, nights are hot and sultry. Though many diversions beckoned, I decided to check my email before heading to bed for the evening. Sitting in front of the computer with a ...
Major forerunners to honors education at the collegiate level.(Research Essays)
Sep 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In this paper, the author explores the major forerunners of the modern-day honors program as well as the purposes behind the formation of honors programs in the United States. Although given much attention in the 1920s with the work of Frank Aydelotte and again in the ...
Student outcomes and honors programs: a longitudinal study of 172 honors students 2000-2004.(Research Essays)(Report)
Sep 22, 2006; ... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ABOUT WHY ASSESSMENT MUST BE A PRIORITY FOR HONORS PROGRAM DEANS AND DIRECTORS Since this edition of the JNCHC is dedicated to honors administration, it seems appropriate to offer a few introductory remarks about the usefulness of this study. College and ...