General Sessions Friday, November 8, 2013: 8:00 AM-8:50 AM
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Bayside C)
58 An Empirical Look at Certification
Hallie Savage, Clarion University;
Patricia Smith, University of Central Arkansas
Results of an expert-panel study on certification will be shared. Panelists included 40 participants from varying institutional and program types and sizes. Panelists were intentionally selected for their role within NCHC. The goal of the study was to determine whether consensus could be reached on items for a certification instrument.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Borgne)
60-1 Reaping and Sowing: How Honors Grassroots Initiatives Benefit the Students, Campus, and Community
Shannon Hames, Southern Polytechnic State University;
Sydney Lyman, Southern Polytechnic State University;
Ann Parker, Southern Polytechnic State University;
Danica Roberts, Southern Polytechnic State University
This panel, consisting of a program's Assistant Director and three honors students, will address the "grassroots" ideas that have formed within their program before intersecting with the university as a whole, providing benefits to honors students as well as the campus and the community.
60-2 Conflict, Dialogue, Transformation: Thinking Pedagogically About Community
Aaron Stoller, North Carolina State University
Pedagogy is traditionally imagined as a classroom-based event which is supplemented by the co-curriculum. This view divides experience into fragments: academic/social, student/teacher, public/private. Yet critical pedagogy argues the community is where learning begins and ends. Drawing on critical theory, this presentation explores the interrelationship between pedagogy and the Honors community.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Grand Chenier)
67 The Role of Honors on Campus: Perspectives from Senior Administrators
James Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale;
Frank Bonner, Gardner-Webb University;
Bonnie Irwin, Eastern Illinois University;
Martin Posey, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Senior administrators from a variety of member institutions will discuss the role of honors on their campuses and how they work to maintain academic excellence and support for honors in times of restricted resources. The panel will also address best practices in hiring and developing honors administrators and how honors directors and deans may best
communicate with central administration.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Grand Couteau)
129-1 Impact of Personality on Writing and Research
Ronald Warners, Curry College
Personality characteristics provide a cognitive and affective framework for both writing and research style in honors by enabling both students and their mentors to design approaches to scholarship that use individual strengths to best advantage. This session will examine how the paradigm of psychological type can be used to enhance writing and research quality and proficiency. Specific pedagogical examples and opportunity for idea exchange will be presented.
129-2 Owning Our Own Writing: Teaching First-Year Honors Composition II as Commitment to a Cause
Lisa Coleman, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Creating a self-motivated need to write is critical to socially conscious writing. This presentation explores how the creation of blogs in conjunction with introspective exercises from Gregory L. Ulmer's book Internet Invention can lead students to take ownership of their claims in relation to self-chosen social justice issues.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Maurepas)
65 Honors & Policy Debate: Creating a New Culture
Joshua Gonzalez, University of Houston;
Michael Hester, University of West Georgia;
Andrea Reed, University of Kentucky;
Sarah Spring, University of Houston
This presentation will discuss the integration of Policy Debate programs within honors programming. The discussion will focus on the benefits as well as the challenges of housing a competitive debate team in honors colleges from the perspective of debate coaches and honors administrators from a diverse set of universities.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon A2)
64-1 Making honors research results applicable for practice
Simone van der Donk, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands offers ten honors programs. These programs differ in content and in structure how they are organized. Our research group evaluates and examines the outcomes and effects of these programs to identify success factors, and help programs to turn these research results into practice.
64-2 Four Years of Data: Empirical Evidence of Factors Affecting Student Success
Jonathan Roberts, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Honors programs are often presented with anecdotal evidence of what "works" in honors with regards to retention, progression, and graduation rates. However, the anecdotal evidence is not always accompanied by data. This session will examine data from entering honors cohorts from 2009 – 2012.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon A3)
61-1 The honors community as a forum for reflection
Jocelyn Ballantyne, Utrecht University, the Netherlands;
Hanne ten Berge, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Utrecht University's honors communities have explored a variety of ways to make reflection part and parcel of what the community does: reflection on personal and social development, or on integration of knowledge and skills. These practices will be presented and discussed.
61-2 The Transformative Effect of Reflection as a Tool for Enhancing Students' Critical Thinking Skills and Faculty Facilitation in Service Learning Experiences
Sue Bowlby, Central Michigan University;
Travus Burton, Central Michigan University;
Ren Hullender, Central Michigan University;
Jeanneane Wood-Nartker, Central Michigan University
This interdisciplinary committee explored the role of reflection in transformative service learning experiences for honors faculty and students. Drawing from the research conducted by the committee, the panel will facilitate a discussion that examines: 1) what constitutes effective reflection practices, 2) the relationship between reflection activities and enhanced critical thinking skills in honors students, and 3) the potentially transformative effects on honors faculty as reflection reviewers and project facilitators.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon B2)
63-1 Teaching My Fellow Honors Students
William Wingate, Monroe College;
Thrupthy Krishnan, Monroe College;
Kathryn MacDonald, Monroe College
This roundtable discussion will present attendees with a project honors students were assigned: to teach themselves and their classmates. With the guidance of the honors faculty member, students collected materials, assigned readings, and gave a "lesson" on a topic assigned. The project will be shared and the roundtable will discuss how to bring this idea to other honors programs.
63-2 Student-Driven Learning - An Innovative Approach to Honors Pedagogy
Michael Balmert, Carlow University;
Jessica Friedrichs, Carlow University
In the honors environment, is it possible to hand over the reigns of course objectives, design, lecture, activities and experiential learning projects to the students themselves? What might result from this trust and innovation? Learn about an approach to honors pedagogy that inspires students and professors to new heights.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon C2)
59-1 Recruiting current students into Honors: A case study
Joshua Carr, Appalachian State University;
Angela Mead, Appalachian State University
Not all honors students begin in their first semester in college. This session explores how an internal application process allows currently enrolled students to apply to the Honors College and increases socio-cultural diversity. Quantitative and qualitative data will be shared by a staff member and an internal applicant student.
59-2 Recruiting for Retention: What Honors Can Learn from Athletics
Betsy Yarrison, University of Baltimore
Honors programs, like varsity athletics, endure special institutional pressure because the success of recruiters (honors directors and deans) depends on the success of recruits. Graduation rates matter. Can best practices from athletics recruiting help honors directors better predict which promising high school performers will also excel in college?
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon D2)
66 Personal Transformations and Global Impact from Honors International Study
Kevin Dean, West Chester University of Pennsylvania;
Kristen Frissora, Defiance College;
Michael Jendzurski, West Chester University of Pennsylvania;
Melina Alexander, Defiance College;
Mary Ann Studer, Defiance College
Impact resulting from international experiences transforms student self-definition and world view especially when that experience involves scholarship focused on community engagement. Presenters, both faculty and students, will highlight the various ways that honors international study results in meaningful impact on participants' lives and the overseas
communities in which we work.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon D3)
62-1 Crafting a Transformative Honors Education Using the Social Change Leadership Model
Christina Chala, CUNY Baruch College;
Jody Clark Vaisman, CUNY Baruch College
In this interactive workshop, "Crafting a Transformative Honors education using the Social Change Leadership Model," the facilitators present the Social Change Leadership Model (SCLM) and discuss use of this consciousness-raising mentorship model in multiple aspects of honors education: orientation, advising, first year programs, workshops, community and cultural engagement.
62-2 Supporting Student Transformation: How Honors Programs Provide Leadership Development Opportunities
Dylan Bogard, Eastern Kentucky University;
Greg Gunderson, Eastern Kentucky University;
Anthony Jeck, Eastern Kentucky University;
Ryan Moran, University of Louisville
Many honors programs claim to develop leadership skills in their participating students, but how exactly do they do it? This study examines the structures and strategic plans of several individual programs and how those programs immerse their students in situations that enhance leadership capabilities.
