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Tacking Into the Wind

Friday, November 8, 2013: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Napoleon C2 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Don Berkich , Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
A fragmented curriculum at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's fledgling honors program diminished the honors experience and resulted in astonishingly low graduation rates. In response, a team of honors students developed a unified curriculum proposal. The long path from proposal to policy, however, exposed fundamental divisions over honors education.