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The mission of small college honors programs.
- Article from:
- Honors Programs at Smaller Colleges
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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The logical place to begin is with a consideration of the purposes of Honors Programs in smaller colleges. Especially in the current climate of assessment, some clear mission statement needs to precede any effort to create or recreate or evaluate any Program.
Different Honors Programs at differing schools will seek different goals and objectives. They will be invented and will develop to meet specific institutional needs and, if successful, be responsive to the particularities of institutional mission and character. That said, there remain certain broad visions which seem common to most Honors Programs at smaller colleges.
First and most obviously, ...