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Article: Separate but equal: will it work for professional honors programs?(Administrative Designs)
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- Honors in Practice
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Developing honors opportunities for students in professional schools can be difficult, as noted by, for example, Giazzoni (2007), Bishop and Sittason (2007) and Noble and Dowling (2007) and also as demonstrated by honors program statistics at Texas Christian University (TCU). Despite the difficulty, highachieving students in professional schools should have the opportunity to benefit from an honors education. According to Bruce (2008), "honors education looks different from other types of education. . . . Honors pushes our comfort zones . . . [and] . . . challenges us to . . . be open to new ideas" (19-29). This paper shows that applying these principles to the design of ...