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Article: A way of life.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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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 accreditation process, which is also a wonderful opportunity to think about questions such as "What is Honors?"
The simple answer to the question is that honors is a way of life. Faculty and students in honors understand that inquiry and learning happen everyday in a continuous mode and not just in discrete courses or lab sessions. Sometimes they are formally conducted in ...