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A Major Breakdown in Honors

Friday, November 8, 2013: 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Napoleon C2 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Antonina (Nina) Bambina , University of Southern Indiana
Alexander Hoffmann , University of Southern Indiana
Our honors program has great inequality in the distribution of students throughout majors. The authors propose this may be due to the differential value various majors place on the experiences, prestige, community, and elite identity an honors program offers. Findings from interviews and surveys testing this hypothesis will be presented.